Sr. System Tech. Program Mgr., Kuiper Customer Terminals

Amazon • Redmond, WA

89d • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Kuiper is looking for a Senior System Technical Program Manager (TPM) located in
Redmond, WA to support the Industrial Design, Product Design (Mechanical),
Electrical Design and Antenna Design for the Customer Terminal (CT) Projects.

As a Senior System TPM, you will lead the product development of a single
customer terminal device working closely with the hardware architect and
hardware functional teams including Electrical Engineering, Product Design,
Antenna Engineering, and Industrial Design to meet Key Performance Metrics for
technical and schedule requirements.

You will work with other Program Managers in other functions (software, ASICS,
Operations) to ensure hardware design and deliverables align with Diagnostic and
Production Device software deliverables for key builds. You will collaborate
with , Product Integrity, Finance, Operations (including Quality, Operations
Program Managers, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering) to successfully mitigate
challenges and maintain project milestone. You must be responsive, flexible, and
able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. The ideal
person will have a “Founder’s Mentality” and own the Device like it is their own
start up.

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.

Requirements

• 7+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• 9+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience, or a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of team management experience
• Experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses, or experience communicating results to senior leadership
• Master's degree in a technical field, or Master of Business Administration

Responsibilities

• Senior System TPM need strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to scale communications to the correct audience for decisions to be made.
• Emphasize speed of decision within the product development cycles and manage critical issues through optimized prioritization of resources and personnel.
• Working with overseas internal and external teams on developing products.
• Scale and evolve key processes and design review checkpoint mechanisms to enable responsible last minute decision making on one way and two way door decisions.
• Manage and communicate product development critical issues, work collaboratively to execute solutions meeting key product KPI and escalate as required when teams are unable to reach a consensus or decisions are one – way door.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior