Sr. Director, Program Management - TeraWave
About The Position
The Senior Director, Program Management will lead TeraWave’s Program Management Office (PMO) and partner with the SVP, TeraWave on the program’s operating model. The role owns the integrated program plan and execution rhythms, including the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), program demand plan, program governance, configuration control, and analytics used to monitor program health. The PMO integrates schedules and execution owned by product leaders and their technical program managers, maintains the program baseline, identifies cross-segment conflicts early, and ensures leadership acts on them. The role combines executive-level strategy and hands-on program execution. The Senior Director will build and maintain the IMS, lead critical-path reviews, own and present the demand plan, and establish business rhythms and decision processes. They will also build and lead a small software development team focused on automating planning, reporting, and decision-making, using AI coding agents and other automation to scale the PMO’s output while minimizing coordination burden on the broader program. TeraWave is a satellite communications network intended to provide symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps worldwide for enterprise, data center, and government users. The position is based in Seattle, Washington, or Cupertino, California, with travel of less than 10%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, a technical discipline, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 15 or more years of experience in program management, program integration, or program planning and control on complex, multidisciplinary hardware or hardware/software programs, such as aerospace, satellite, telecommunications, semiconductor, or similar programs.
- 8 or more years of people leadership experience.
- Must meet U.S. citizenship, nationality, permanent-residency, refugee, or asylum status requirements stated in the posting; must also be eligible for authorization under U.S. export regulations.
- Position is based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA.
- Travel of less than 10%.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations, or a related field.
- Experience with satellite constellations, spacecraft, ground networks, user terminals, or custom silicon programs.
- Experience integrating schedules and demand across a system of systems with concurrent development and production.
- Experience leading software development or analytics teams, and hands-on experience building dashboards, data pipelines, or program tooling.
- Familiarity or fluency with AI tools and their use in automating program planning, reporting, and analysis.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the SVP, TeraWave on strategic planning and the operating model across TeraWave.
- Translate program strategy into an integrated plan with clear milestones, owners, and accountability.
- Establish governance forums, business processes, and decision rights; close organizational gaps in structure, process, and ownership as the program scales.
- Define and manage program KPIs and health metrics, using them to improve efficiency and decision speed.
- Lead executive reviews and program-level communications with Blue Origin leadership, customers, and partners.
- Own and maintain the TeraWave Integrated Master Schedule, integrating segment schedules for spacecraft, payloads and terminals, network, and silicon into a baselined, logic-linked program schedule.
- Set IMS architecture and standards, including milestone hierarchy, cross-segment interface and handoff milestones, schedule data standards, and segment schedule integration methods.
- Drive the program’s critical and near-critical paths; coach product leaders and technical program managers on risk analysis, schedule margin, early threat identification, and recovery options.
- Define and enforce milestone completion and readiness criteria tied to integration, test, and product certification.
- Own the program demand plan across the system-of-systems architecture, translating architecture, deployment and launch plans, and test strategy into demand and need-dates for flight units, test articles, spares, ground infrastructure, user terminals, and silicon.
- Keep the demand plan, IMS, and configuration baseline aligned so changes to architecture or schedule are reflected in demand and vice versa.
- Provide demand signals to Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Finance for capacity planning, long-lead procurement, and the annual operating plan; track supply against demand.
- Run demand-and-supply trade studies and recommend actions to program leadership when capacity, cost, or schedule constraints conflict.
- Design and run TeraWave’s operating cadence, including Program Business Reviews, deep dives, risk reviews, and the integrated program calendar.
- Define the purpose, required inputs, decision outputs, and output owners for each business rhythm, and track actions to closure.
- Maintain the integrated program risk and opportunity register; ensure cross-segment risks are visible and owned.
- Own program-level configuration management and baseline control across segments, including configuration items, the integrated BOM, release management, and change management.
- Maintain links between requirements baselines and the configuration baseline to provide a single source of truth.
- Ensure configuration baselines support design release to integration and test and handoff to manufacturing.
- Build and lead the PMO’s business analytics software development team; set its roadmap, priorities, and engineering standards.
- Deliver tools, data pipelines, and dashboards for schedule health, demand versus supply, KPIs, configuration status, headcount, and hiring.
- Automate program reporting, including IMS roll-ups, demand management, assembly status, pre-reads, and action tracking; use AI and automation to scale PMO output.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week
- Paid time off of up to four weeks per year, based on weekly scheduled hours
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Potential role- and level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion and change
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
