Sr. Technical Program Manager - Source, Kiro

Description

Kiro Labs is the public home for community-built projects in the Kiro ecosystem - a Git Hub organization where Amazon engineers, and over time trusted external contributors, publish the experimental tools, SDKs, MCP servers, CLI extensions, and skill libraries they build on top of Kiro. Thousands of engineers already build for Kiro every day. Almost none of that work has left the building.

Kiro Labs is how we open it up: a governed but deliberately low-friction path that moves internal innovation into the open, where a broader community of developers can find it, use it, and build on it.

Kiro Labs is the public home for community-built projects in the Kiro ecosystem - a Git Hub organization where Amazon engineers, and over time trusted external contributors, publish the experimental tools, SDKs, MCP servers, CLI extensions, and skill libraries they build on top of Kiro. Thousands of engineers already build for Kiro every day. Almost none of that work has left the building.

Kiro Labs is how we open it up: a governed but deliberately low-friction path that moves internal innovation into the open, where a broader community of developers can find it, use it, and build on it.

We're looking for a Technical Program Manager to build that program. You'll own the mechanisms that turn Kiro Labs from a promising side effort into a durable, scalable incubator: the publishing pipeline, the governance model, the lifecycle, and the metrics. You'll be the connective tissue across the Kiro product team, open source strategy, security, legal, marketing, and customer success - diving deep enough technically to understand what contributors are building, and program-managing well enough to get it shipped and keep the org healthy.

• Own the publishing pipeline end to end
  - Design and run the intake process that takes a project from proposal to public repo fit review, security review, license and trademark review, and repo creation - and relentlessly drive down time-to-publish.
• Build the governance model
  - Stand up the review committee, define the fit, quality, and security bar, establish decision rights and response SLAs, and document the entire workflow.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and unblock contributors
  - Coordinate across product, open source strategy, security, legal/IP, marketing, and customer success. Own the critical path, clear blockers, and give contributors a single, obvious place to get answers.
• Own project lifecycle and org health
  - Define and operate the active, maintenance, and archived states, health monitoring, and the sunset process, so Kiro Labs stays a curated set of working tools rather than a graveyard of abandoned repos.
• Define and report on success
  - Establish the program's KPIs - projects published, external engagement (stars, forks, issues, and PRs from outside Amazon), projects that graduate to broad adoption, time-to-publish, and growth in external awareness of Kiro and report progress, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
• Scale the operation
  - Introduce automated quality and health checks, write the SOPs, and reduce manual effort so the program runs on mechanisms

Kiro Labs sits at the intersection of product, customer success, engineering, and open source for Kiro. It's the external-facing complement to a thriving internal builder culture: the place where the tools Amazon engineers build on Kiro reach a public audience, and where a nascent external community can start to form around the product. This role brings together partners who have each carried a piece of it - open source strategy, the Kiro product team, marketing, and customer success - under a single program owner accountable for making it work.

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience presenting metrics and progress to goal to senior leadership

• Experience developing and implementing KPI goals and strategies based on broader organization goals
• 3+ years of software development experience, or Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
• Experience running open source or developer community programs, including Git Hub organization administration, open source release and compliance processes, and open source licensing

Amazon is an equal opportunity…