About Ring
Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer. From the first-ever video doorbell, to the award-winning DIY Ring Alarm system, Ring’s smart home security product line, as well as the Neighbors app, offer users affordable whole-home and neighborhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone -- while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visit www.ring.com. With Ring, you’re always home.

Role
We are currently seeking a Sr Packaging Engineer with strong conceptual and engineering skills to create unique, scalable concepts that drive the future of our packaging, unboxing, and sustainability experience. This is a unique opportunity to work with an inventive, user-centered team that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronic device packaging for Ring worldwide.

As a Sr Packaging Engineer, you will be an integral part of executing build strategies, including: DFM innovation, new product development, execution efficiency, mitigating risk, best practice, as well as a key escalation path for packaging process issues. You’ll connect the US and Asia teams to ensure effective cross-functional collaboration, including: Product Development, Global Commodity Management, Strategic Procurement, Program Management, Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain. Your emphasis will be on helping to drive the development of packaging part manufacturing and processes towards Marketing and ID intent—bridging the gap between strategic business goals and design priorities.

Requirements
Travel domestically and internationally as needed to Ring offices and supplier sites to collaborate and keep teams moving.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
• Maintain close communication with Asia and US Engineering teams to ensure effective team collaboration.
• Identify and develop packaging materials, manufacturing processes, and finishes.
• Design, prototype, and deliver scalable processes to address highly complex programs.
• Drive towards yield and cycle time targets ahead of mass production.
• Collaborate with suppliers, providing design feedback and recommendations including but not limited to features, tolerances, DFM, fixture development, etc.
• Participate in early engagement design recommendations and user testing to optimize solutions.
• Lead detailed engineering studies and provide the risk evaluation to the design team.
• Attend packaging builds; Provide reports to the engineering and core teams.
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality and support issue resolution at suppliers throughout the development cycle.
• Support Operations team ramp at mass production and sustaining as required.
• Establishes strategic frameworks

A day in the life
You’ll partner with our distributed team of highly productive and passionate designers, product and program managers, content strategists, writers, and engineers to bring the Ring product vision to life—collaborating across the US, China, and Taiwan. Throughout the design cycle, you will closely monitor and drive packaging engineering initiatives and processes to develop and lock concepts that our Taiwan team will put into mass production. You’ll contribute across all packaging engineering touch-points to assess risks, test and validate, and help deliver sustainable, user-centered design, 3D structures, dielines, and out-of-box experience and interactions per program requirements and priority.

About the team
Ring Blink Key Sidewalk (RBKS) Design is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary organization of designers, engineers, writers, researchers, product managers, and program managers working together to bring the RBKS product vision to life. We enjoy what we do, have big ideas, and tackle complex problems by taking risks that drive global solutions. In every work stream, we immerse ourselves in insights, and invent on behalf of our customers. We brainstorm scenarios they will benefit from and solutions to pain points—crafting innovative products that aim to connect the physical and digital customer journey.