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 develope and manage the PCBA supply value stream for Kuiper production system. The PCBA 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, networks, RF, embedded, 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.
Your ability to take large, complex projects, break them into manageable pieces, and deliver timely results is invaluable. You will work with a team of experts and drive the team to successfully accomplish the following activities:
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 PCBA SKU
• Communicate overall health of the PCBA 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 PCBA 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 PCBA 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 PCBA 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.
• 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.
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
– 6+ years of experience in program/project management roles, technical lead role, or project engineer role with significant experience integrating HW into a complex system and including leadership of cross-functional teams delivering products on schedule
– Direct experience with HW development including specification, design, build and qualification for aerospace hardware
– Proficiency with at least one schedule tracking tools
– Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with engineers, business owners, and senior business leaders – written and verbally
– Great time and task management skills with consistent attention to detail
– Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills, with ability to work successfully across all engineering disciplines
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Master’s degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field
– 6+ years of experience in program/project management roles, technical lead role, or project engineer role with significant experience integrating HW into a complex system and including leadership of cross-functional teams delivering products on schedule
– Experience with the development or operation of space flight vehicles
– Experience with systems engineering of space systems
– Direct experience in lab test environments and flight testing
– Track record of successfully delivering complete systems on time, to scope, with high quality
– Independently driven, resourceful, and able to deliver results with minimal direction
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.