Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Leo Customer Terminals

Description

Amazon LEO is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon LEO will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity

Leo is looking for a Senior 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 TPM, you will lead the System development of an aviation customer terminal product, subsystem accessories, and accessories by working closely with cross functional teams including the Device TPM, Electrical Engineering, Product Design, Antenna Engineering, and Industrial Design to meet Key Performance Metrics for technical and schedule requirements.

You will ensure hardware design and deliverables align with Diagnostic and Production Device software deliverables for key builds. You will collaborate with the Device TPM, 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 treat the Senior TPM with a “Founder’s Mentality” and own all Day One deliverables 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.


Key job responsibilities
Senior Antenna TPM's 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.


A day in the life
The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing execution of the Antenna Hardware, software and Accessories (cables, power supplies, etc.) with a balance of technical skills, bias for action, customer obsession, and ownership. The TPM will collaborate daily onsite with the hardware and software development teams located in Redmond, WA including Product Design, Industrial Design, Electrical, and Antenna teams. On a weekly basis, the TPM will create agendas and presentations leading to meetings at the Director and VP level to make timely one way and two way door decisions to maintain project timelines, finances, requirements and deliverables

About the team
The Amazon LEO aviation team is part of a broader initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to aviation users and airlines of the world.

Basic Qualifications

- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 5 years of aviation technical product or program management experience with product qualification and certification in STC or OEM programs

Preferred Qualifications

- 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 KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Master's degree in a technical field, or Master of Business Administration

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