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Amazon

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Principal Technical Program Manager - Ring Video Platform

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Cambridge, UK
In PersonThe team is based in Cambridge/London; ATS workplace location specifies Cambridge.
Project & Program ManagementProgram Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience in technical product or program management.
  • Experience working directly with engineering teams.
  • Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
  • Experience in architectural design or system design independent of an architect.
  • Experience in technical program management.
  • Experience owning or driving roadmap strategy and definition.
  • Demonstrated fluency with AI tools in daily work, including writing, analysis, reporting, and research.
Responsibilities
  • Set the program execution vision for Video Platform and own the multi-year strategy for its most critical cross-organizational initiatives, balancing new customer experiences with reliability, privacy, security, and cost.
  • Own portfolio-level decisions, greenlighting or stopping work against clear success metrics and building the case for what the organization takes on next, not only how it gets delivered.
  • Deliver through others, with success measured by what the organization ships rather than by programs personally run; remove systemic blockers across teams and organizations, and build mechanisms that make delivery faster and more predictable without depending on the role holder.
  • Test plans, estimates, and status against data; identify risks and opportunities in architectures, technical strategies, and team structures, and make the case for changes that let teams deliver independently.
  • Write narratives and decision documents that directors and vice presidents act on, and represent difficult trade-offs clearly in business reviews and escalations.
  • Mentor technical program managers and engineers, and raise the standard for how programs are run across Ring.
  • Design program workflows with AI embedded from the start, including automated status, risk detection, dependency tracking, and reusable tooling the organization adopts; improve tools or methods when they fall short.
  • Frame multi-year delivery strategy with engineering leaders, examine architecture reviews to test plans, use AI-generated portfolio views to identify cross-team risks, help leadership decide which initiatives to accelerate or stop, and improve agentic workflows used to run programs.
  • Balance hands-on judgment with long-range planning and automate routine work so the organization can focus on decisions, strategy, and customer impact.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in hands-on work managing complex technology projects.
  • Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
  • Experience designing AI-assisted or agentic workflows that automate program management work, such as status reporting, risk detection, or dependency tracking, and that other teams adopt.
  • Experience setting standards for how AI-generated output is validated before decisions are made on it.
  • Experience delivering programs that span cloud services, device firmware, and mobile apps.
  • Experience with large-scale, real-time distributed systems, such as video streaming or media platforms.

About the company

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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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