Production Technical Program Manager, Amazon Leo

Amazon.com, Inc.•Bellevue, WA

35d•Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. 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. This role includes direct responsibility for program management of planning, manufacturing, integration, and test of production value stream. This is a highly technical role requiring experience with data analytics, data modeling, integrated hardware and software as well as some appreciation for complex applications and manufacturing systems. Candidate superpowers should include bias for action, ownership, insist on high standards, stakeholder management, innovation, creating clarity out of ambiguity, and enabling productive collaboration across different organization.

Requirements

3+ years of technical product or program management experience
3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
3+ years of analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentations experience

Nice To Haves

3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

Responsibilities

Own the production roadmap for production value streams that delivers the end-to-end solutions necessary to source, build, test and integrate satellites using existing software applications and enterprise systems.
Establish the linkage between production roadmap and annual goals & objectives, creating data models, building measurement and analysis tools, as well as mechanisms to measure, monitor and optimize these value streams.
Drive daily execution working across supply chain, planning, fullfillment and production teams.
Represent the overall production roadmap in assessing technical trades related to innovation, speed, manufacturability, cost, stability and trust.
Translate strategic goals into actionable plans for specific projects and operations.
Understand dependencies between roadmap projects, synchronize milestones, identify constraints and dive deep where necessary to unblock and deliver the roadmap.
Create new tools and business processes that simplify, standardize and enable operational excellence across the entire production value stream.
Identify potential risks in manufacturing processes and develop mitigation strategies and recovery plans.
Drive the creation, documentation, and adoption of scalable, standardized, and highly visible processes across all supply chain, manufacturing and launch functions.
Drive executive communication cadence and deliver artifacts that provide insight into the activities, accomplishments, challenges and risks of operations to senior leadership.
Measure, analyze, improve, and control KPIs across all aspects of the operation.
Work with software and analytics teams to develop reporting tools and applications that support, operating rhythms.
Analyze production data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement.
Support implementation training on new processes or improvements identified through PDCA cycles.
Provide feedback/escalate systemic concerns to tech teams regarding approaches that are cost-inefficient or detrimental to scaling.
Create new tools and business processes that simplify, standardize and enable operational excellence across the entire production value stream.
Perform internal audits to assess adherence to procedures, systems and standards.