Sr Technical Program Manager, Production Change Management, Amazon Leo

Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world designed with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve individual households schools hospitals businesses government agencies and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Software and hardware changes introduce complexity requiring coordinated cut-in planning effectivity control and production impact assessment across the full vehicle build flow from Contract Manufacturer through our Factory up to Launch Operations.

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.

Key job responsibilities
This TPM will be a core member of Kuiper Productions New Product Change Operations owning the Engineering Change Implementation process end-to-end. This complex value stream governs how engineering changes spanning both software and hardware are reviewed and implemented across Kuipers satellite manufacturing and test operations. The role requires a demonstrated ability to drive industrial and manufacturing readiness ensuring that engineering changes are introduced into production in a controlled scalable and operationally sustainable manner. The role interfaces with procurement finance GSE production warehouse flight design and launch operations and is based in Redmond WA.

The scale and complexity of engineering change management demands coordinated activities across both daily urgent activities and long-term strategic initiatives. As an adept of working yourself out of a job this TPM will lead the critical process and tool improvements required to protect production stability while enabling rapid innovation cycles.

Program Ownership & Governance

* Hold single-threaded ownership of the Engineering Change Control program managing both software and hardware change streams across Kuiper manufacturing and test operations
* Manage the Engineering Change Implementation Board and Software Production Implementation mechanisms ensuring structured intake risk classification and approval of all changes
* Maintain the single source of truth for the change schedule developed collaboratively with stakeholders across production test quality and operations
* Serve as the primary escalation point for production-impacting changes coordinating rapid response to quality gaps and engineering-driven stoppages
* Lead continuous improvement initiatives targeting automation of change intake validation and deployment workflows
* Conduct post-release reviews to capture lessons learned and feed improvements back into the process

Impact Assessment & Change Introduction

* Lead cross-functional impact assessments for changes being cut-in reworked or phased into production evaluating effects on first-pass yield (FPY) cycle time test throughput and downstream operations
* Drive cut-in planning for hardware block changes managing effectivity dates WIP disposition and rework scope across the production floor
* Partner with engineering (design test manufacturing quality) to negotiate change requirements and represent the voice of production in design reviews
* Define and track key performance indicators: software-related production disruptions change cycle time first-pass yield for software deployments and change velocity




A day in the life
This role is highly collaborative requiring active partnerships with cross-functional leaders across test engineering manufacturing software/firmware development quality and operations. You will advocate on behalf of production pushing back on changes that lack sufficient validation rigor while enabling the speed of innovation Kuiper requires to scale. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and energized by solving problems that havent been solved at scale before.

About the team
This is a fast-paced intellectually challenging position and youll work with leaders in multiple technology areas. Youll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and youll be constantly looking for ways to improve your products performance quality and cost. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

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- Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science or a related technical field
- 6 years of technical product management program management or engineering experience
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience working in fast paced environments and managing workload even during times of stress or escalated activity
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
- 3 years of experience in aerospace engineering industrial engineering operations management or equivalent in a manufacturing or test environment
- Fluency in either software change management or hardware change management with working knowledge of the other domain
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills with the ability to work across all engineering disciplines

- 8 years of project management (including scope schedule budget quality risk and critical path management) experience
- Masters degree in Engineering (any domain) Operations Business Administration or a related field
- Experience implementing change management successfully transitioning programs into large-scale operations
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Knowledge of lean techniques and Six Sigma tools
- Experience working in the aerospace semiconductor automative consumer electronic or aviation industry
- 2 years managing the development of mechanical hardware developing software for automation or developing electrical/embedded systems
- Knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP) manufacturing execution systems (MES) and product lifecycle management (PLM) software
- Experience owning cross-functional program strategy end-to-end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership (up to VP level)

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA BELLEVUE - 137300.00 - 185700.00 USD annually