Senior Production TPM, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individual households to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other 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 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.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Technical Program Manager you will

* Own the production roadmap for production value streams that delivers the end-to-end solutions necessary to source build test and integrate satellites.
* Establish the linkage between production roadmap and annual goals & objectives creating and owning tools and 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.
* Develop and own operational rhythms for all of production operations teams
* Identify potential risks in manufacturing processes and develop mitigation strategies and recovery plans.
* Execute a strategic plan that defines how teams will deliver on forward looking production plans.
* Support the development and execution of Production Rate Ramp roadmaps.
* Partner with business teams on scalable standardized approaches to meet their demand and enable growth.
* 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
* Drive year over year optimization opportunities in all areas of operations including manufacturing and sourcing.
* Provide feedback/escalate systemic concerns to tech teams regarding approaches that are cost-inefficient or detrimental to scaling.
* Advices production directors and sr. managers on technology and execution decisions.
* Unblocks production teams and increases the speed of delivery. Negotiates resources and priorities across different technology stakeholders.
* Create new tools and business processes that simplify standardize and enable operational excellence across the entire production value stream.
* Ensure effective communication of changes and improvements across the organization.
* Perform internal audits to assess adherence to procedures systems and standards.


A day in the life
This role will be highly collaborative requiring partnerships with cross-functional production stakeholders to drive positive results. This role requires the ability to advocate on behalf of our customers (internal and external) and an ability to push back without being adversarial.

This role will be supporting production of satellite operations across our facilities in Redmond and Kirkland WA. A typical day for this role will be working directly with production teams and value stream owners on plan execution and check process adherence. Throughout the day an Sr. Operations TPM for satellite manufacturing must balance strategic planning with hands-on oversight of project execution. Communication skills are crucial as they interact with various stakeholders including customers suppliers and internal teams. The role requires strong leadership to motivate and coordinate teams towards achieving project goals while maintaining a focus on quality efficiency and adherence to timelines.

Overall the role demands strategic thinking effective leadership and meticulous oversight to drive satellite manufacturing projects forward successfully. This role will tackle challenging novel situations every day and have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that havent been solved at scale before. Along the way we guarantee that you will learn a lot have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.


About the team
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. To deliver these complex solutions as the Senior Technical Program Manager you will partner with peers across all Kuiper teams including hardware software supply chain manufacturing launch facilities finance compliance and HR.

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 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.

- 5 years of technical product or program management experience
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams 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
- 3 Years working directly in high paced manufacturing or production environments.

- 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 multi-million 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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.