Senior Technical Program Manager, PMO, Amazon Leo

Amazon•Redmond, WA

53d

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. To deliver these complex solutions, as the Senior Technical Program Manager you will partner with peers across all Amazon Leo teams, including hardware, software, supply chain, manufacturing, launch, facilities, finance, compliance, and HR. This role includes direct responsibility for program management of system level development, integration, and test. This is a highly technical role requiring experience with integrated hardware and software development as well as some appreciation for complex applications. Candidate superpowers should include ownership, insist on high standards, stakeholder management, people development, innovation, creating clarity out of ambiguity, and enabling productive collaboration. 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.

Requirements

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 KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
Exposure and Comfort with leadership level review
Executive level presentation skills.
Have been part of PMO teams before.

Responsibilities

Own the satellite production roadmap that delivers the end-to-end solutions necessary to source, build, test and launch satellites at high rates.
Establish the linkage between production roadmap and annual goals & objectives, creating and owning tools and mechanisms to measure, monitor and optimize these projects.
Represent the overall production roadmap in assessing technical trades related to innovation, speed, manufacturability, cost, stability and trust.
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 tooling to create operational rhythms for all of Amazon Leo Operations teams
Execute a strategic plan that defines how teams will deliver on forward-looking production plans.
Partner with business teams on scalable standardized approaches to meet their demand and enable growth.
Develop and manage the program level Production Ramp schedule (including Production, Supply Chain, PPF, Launch, Finance and Back Office Functions) to act as a single source for project timeline tracking and synchronization.
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.
Establish and own reporting mechanisms, business strategy documents, operating rhythms
Measure, analyze, improve, and control KPIs across all aspects of the operation.
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.
Create new tools and business processes that simplify, standardize and enable operational excellence across the entire production value stream.