Senior Technical Program Manager TPM Kuiper Embedded Software

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide lowlatency highspeed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

You will work with a crossfunctional team of software and hardware engineers to continuously define and manage the requirements and scope of Kuipers Secure Communications systems and services. This includes daytoday management of deliverables dependencies and schedule as well as driving this complex project through its incremental phases. You will collaborate with Kuipers leadership team at all levels to establish Kuiper Secure Communications processes that track our goals objectives milestones progress and risks and drive organizational alignment on tradeoffs and priorities. You will own coordination across the entire organization to facilitate Secure Communications product and service launches as well as iterative feature delivery.


Key job responsibilities

Work across the program to track crossteam dependencies manage the operations schedule and requirements.
Collaborate with engineering leaders and create program structure to track systemlevel goals software and procedure development and crossfunctional dependencies.
Work with crossfunctional teams to create project plans and incremental milestones for Operations Software and test infrastructure development.
Establish and lead an ongoing launch readiness program to systematically drive progress and complete critical program milestones.
Identify and operationalize the metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) necessary to track progress and drive issue resolution & mitigation at a granular level across the organization.
Support and organize the delivery of critical and complex work streams across the space and ground segments of Kuipers software and services infrastructure.


You must be fully competent in a variety of project management tools methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project lifecycle and exhibit demonstrated proficiency in core project management disciplines including scope schedule budget resources quality and risk management reporting and metric development/tracking.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented have strong organizational skills able to work independently juggle multiple tasks at once and maintain professionalism under pressure. You should have deep knowledge software engineering practices understand how software and hardware systems interact and can drive design and implementation of operational of objectives in complex systems. Familiarity with space systems is desired.


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.

5 years of technical product or program management experience
7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
3 years of software development experience
5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules

5 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multimillion dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.