Sr Space and Satellite Systems Technical Program Manager, Aerospace Solutions

$133,900 - $231,400/Yr

Amazon - Denver, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Denver, CO

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About the position

The AWS Ground Station team is seeking a technical product or program manager to oversee the development and delivery of global satellite ground station features and locations. This role involves managing cross-functional teams, addressing technical challenges, and ensuring customer commitments are met while maintaining operational excellence. The successful candidate will have a strong technical background and will play a key role in influencing decisions that impact satellite connectivity in the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Work across product, program, engineering, hardware, software, and infrastructure teams to manage requirements, scope, and delivery of worldwide AWS Ground Station features and locations.
• Represent the service architecture and technical needs across Amazon including spectrum licensing.
• Assess risks, anticipate issues, overcome technical obstacles, and make difficult trade-off decisions while managing cost and schedule to drive deployment goals and meet customer commitments.
• Represent program status to senior leadership and influence teams' decisions to drive secure and scalable solutions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience.
• 5+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leading highly technical programs involving infrastructure, complex systems, systems engineering.
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
• Knowledge of and experience with satellite and ground system communication systems and architectures.
• Strong writing skills, able to communicate technical concepts and decisions to broad audiences in writing.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits package.
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of total compensation.
• Flexible working culture to support work-life balance.
• Endless knowledge-sharing and mentorship opportunities for career growth.