Sr Technical Program Manager , Kuiper Government Solutions, Program Management Team
DESCRIPTION
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.
Key job responsibilities
This role is responsible for defining Project Kuiper’s government communication systems from a wide variety of government customer ground, air, maritime, and space based users via Kuiper’s Low Earth Orbit satellites. This is a unique opportunity to assist in the development of a global broadband communication system. You will work closely with the commercial satellite and consumer terminal teams to organize resources, schedule milestones, and track achievements in the group. In addition, you will be responsible for identifying project dependencies and critical paths in government systems development.
On a day-to-day basis, you will coordinate among teams and subcontractors to surface and solve the critical risks to the programs you are assigned to lead. In this role you will:
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 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
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 and unblock technical issues by pulling together the multi-functional technical expertise to resolve issues
Set agenda, communicate meeting notes and actions, follow up with responsible owners
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 (including government agencies) to develop work packages and ensure that 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.
Some travel, primarily domestic, will be required.
Security Clearance: This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance ( with polygraph preferred).
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.