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.
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The Kuiper Electronic Supply Chain team is looking for a Program Manger to support business and engineering stakeholders in selecting developing and managing business processes and metrics to run a complex Printed Circuit Board Assembly supply chain to ensure smooth day to day operations.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have a successful track record at working across internal organizations driving process improvements and business metrics to enable real-time decision making to optimize the day to day business and across external suppliers to establish clear metrics to continuously improve all aspects of PCBA manufacturing. The ideal candidate is comfortable working in new and ambiguous environments while solving complex problems with a sense of urgency across a broad range of stakeholders and management levels.
Effectively lead cross-functional meetings with clear document writing agenda creation note capture and follow-up activity communicating program status risks and opportunities to stakeholders.
Use industry and relevant data analysis to create and implement KPIs and dashboards to monitor program health and drive continuous improvement for the PCBA supply chain organization.
Streamline workflows across design procurement and production to improve efficiency and scalability.
Independently prioritize projects and activities to deliver maximum cost reductions and reliable supply chain solutions.
Manage cross-functional projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals
A day in the life
As a Program Manager at Kuiper you will be a key member of the supply chain team. Your primary responsibility will be working with our Sr sourcing manager and the MPMs to help drive and report daily weekly and monthly metrics associated with PCBA suppliers to support the Kuiper Constellation project. You will collaborate cross-functionally with the team owning a wide variety of topics from the daily business metrics to strategic process development.
NOTE: this role may require 10% domestic and international travel.
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/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.