Senior Technical Program Manager, Kuiper Privacy Engineering
DESCRIPTION
Join Amazon’s Project Kuiper! This 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 Role
Kuiper is looking for a dynamic and high-judgment Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join the Kuiper Privacy Engineering team within the Kuiper Privacy Services organization. This role is responsible for driving technical innovation and ensuring compliance with critical, high-impact regulations across Kuiper services globally. The Senior TPM will oversee three core areas:
1. Serving as the subject matter expert (SME) on how Kuiper systems handle customer personal data to create exceptional customer experiences.
2. Leading end-to-end technical design, collaborating with infrastructure and business teams.
3. Driving the implementation of technical tasks, while actively managing dependencies, and identifying and addressing key risks, issues, and blockers.
In addition, the Senior TPM will play a key role in shaping the strategic direction of Kuiper's privacy practices. This involves framing and engaging in high-stakes discussions and decision-making with senior leaders from business, technology, legal, and public policy teams.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Partner with senior engineers to map the origination, augmentation and destinations of customer data across systems.
- Lead high level and detailed technical design with senior engineers to create compliant and efficient architecture for enforcing user consent.
- Oversee scoping and funding of technical resources required to deliver the technical design across teams.
- Drive implementation of technical tasks, monitoring key dependencies and reporting risks/issues/blockers.
- Own a broad scope and plenty of opportunity to influence technical direction across Kuiper business and engineering teams.
- Act as single threaded tech lead accountable for understanding and controlling end to end data flows from origin through destination.
- Set a comprehensive program portfolio to deliver an ambitious 3+ year vision of technical innovation.
- Engage with Principal Engineers, Engineering-Managers and PMTs to reach decisions on hotly debated technical topics.
- Hold partner engineering teams accountable for setting and delivering ambitious goals that improve competitive practices within their services.
- Identify inter-system dependencies and align on then monitor paths to address them.
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
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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.