Kgs (Kforce Government Solutions) - Los Angeles, CA

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Los Angeles, CA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The mission of Project Kuiper's Government Solutions (KGS) is to leverage Kuiper and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to United States and allied government customers. We have an immediate opening for a Sr. Technical Program Manager to support the Kuiper Government Solutions (KGS) team focusing on U.S. Government customers such as NASA, DoD, and National Security. As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you will work with technical and senior leadership across the program to ensure Kuiper government systems meet the highest engineering standards. In addition to building and maintaining processes of the Kuiper Government Systems team, you will be responsible for establishing and tracking milestones and project priorities to maximize development efficiency, identify project critical paths, and ensure supplier/partner products are delivered on time and to Kuiper specifications. You will work in a collaborative, analytical, and fast-paced environment and must be comfortable interacting with highly technical cross-functional teams. The candidate must have strong business judgment, dive deep into data, have strong writing skills, and be comfortable leading executive-level reviews. The best candidates will have deep understanding of aerospace/satellite and systems engineering. Candidates with demonstrated experience within deployed satellite telecommunications services will be preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Define Project Kuiper's government communication systems for a variety of government customer users via Kuiper's Low Earth Orbit satellites.
  • Coordinate among teams and subcontractors to surface and solve critical risks to the programs assigned.
  • Propose and drive adoption of improvements to the Kuiper program for government users.
  • Act as the point of contact for Kuiper Government Satellite Systems with external teams, partners, and subcontractors.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on plans, status, and critical issues.
  • Document trade studies for intra-team review for stakeholder buy-in.
  • Establish subcontract management and vendor deliveries.
  • Organize regular project and team meetings, focusing design teams on program milestones.
  • Develop, track, & communicate project schedules and achievements.
  • Drive engineering project execution, develop project plans, make technical trade-offs, manage risks, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
  • Work closely with partner organizations to develop work packages and ensure all teams have what they need to be successful.
  • Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver customer solutions to cost, performance and schedule requirements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
  • 8+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Physics, or related field, or equivalent experience

Nice-to-haves

  • 8+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
  • Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
  • 8+ years engineering leadership experience with aerospace or satellite and ground-based development technologies

Benefits

  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
  • Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
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