Senior Technical Program Manager, PMO, Project Kuiper

$133,900 - $231,400/Yr

Amazon - Redmond, WA

Full-time - Senior

Redmond, WA

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About the position

The Senior Technical Program Manager for Project Kuiper will lead the program management of system-level development, integration, and testing for a satellite production initiative aimed at increasing global broadband access. This role requires collaboration across various teams to ensure the successful delivery of satellite technology, focusing on operational excellence and strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Own the satellite production roadmap that delivers the end-to-end solutions necessary to source, build, test and launch satellites at high rates.
• Establish the linkage between production roadmap and annual goals & objectives, creating and owning tools and mechanisms to measure, monitor and optimize these projects.
• Represent the overall production roadmap in assessing technical trades related to innovation, speed, manufacturability, cost, stability and trust.
• Understand dependencies between roadmap projects, synchronize milestones, identify constraints and dive deep where necessary to unblock and deliver the roadmap.
• Create new tools and business processes that simplify, standardize and enable operational excellence across the entire production value stream.
• Develop and own tooling to create operational rhythms for all of Kuiper Operations teams.
• Execute a strategic plan that defines how teams will deliver on forward-looking production plans.
• Partner with business teams on scalable standardized approaches to meet their demand and enable growth.
• Develop and manage the program level Production Ramp schedule to act as a single source for project timeline tracking and synchronization.
• Drive the creation, documentation, and adoption of scalable, standardized, and highly visible processes across all supply chain, manufacturing and launch functions.
• Drive executive communication cadence and deliver artifacts that provide insight into the activities, accomplishments, challenges and risks of operations.
• Establish and own reporting mechanisms, business strategy documents, operating rhythms.
• Measure, analyze, improve, and control KPIs across all aspects of the operation.
• Drive year over year optimization opportunities in all areas of operations, including manufacturing and sourcing.
• Provide feedback/escalate systemic concerns to tech teams regarding approaches that are cost-inefficient or detrimental to scaling.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Exposure and Comfort with leadership level review
• Executive level presentation skills
• Have been part of PMO teams before.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Paid time off and holidays
• Employee discounts
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package