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Location

Redmond, WA | United States

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Job description

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Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology?
Amazon’s Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

The Project Kuiper team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience in
satellite hardware. The role will interface with cross-functional engineering, program/product
management and commodity sourcing teams to develop and manage all Mechanical and Electrical Satellite Hardware supply stream for Kuiper production system. The Hardware Sourcing TPM will help define and develop the interfaces, manage requirements, and organize technical efforts for the constellation development. Tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams across Amazon.

You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that haven’t been solved at scale before! We’ll need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: software, hardware, complex components, real-time and distributed systems as well as industrial automation. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities
• Develop and manage detailed schedules and project plans.
• Develop program and team processes and tools as required.
• Develop performance to plan and get to green plans for each complex Assembly
• Communicate overall health of the hardware satellite ship set to stakeholder leadership
• Collaborate with LRU TPMs and commodity sourcing leaders to create project plans for
externally sourced space hardware through the entire development life cycle – requirements to
development to validation in an agile environment.
• Drive Hardware schedule execution, make technical trade-offs in collaboration with engineering, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, and manufacturing teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
• Act as the point of contact for Kuiper Hardware Commodity Sourcing team for hardware teams and work with external teams to identify and mitigate programmatic risks in meeting shared goals.
• Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on the plans, status, and critical issues. Escalate urgent issues appropriately and drive them to closure in a timely manner.
• Organize regular project and team meetings, focusing the Hardware Sourcing Team's milestones and unblock technical issues by pulling together the multi-functional technical expertise to resolve the issues.
• Participate in technical discussions, ask probing questions, and work with the team to pull together scoping, schedules, and solutions to issues.
• Demonstrate leadership and be adept at navigating through tough situations, juggling various priorities and managing constraints.
• Be competent in a variety of project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project life-cycle (e.g. critical path management, schedule development, risk identification and mitigation) and exhibit demonstrated proficiency in core technical project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality and risk management, reporting and metric development/tracking.

A day in the life
This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and will work with leaders in multiple
technology areas. Have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and be constantly looking for ways to improve your product’s performance, quality and cost. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of
inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190
chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning
experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles,
which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

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