Senior Hardware Technical Program Manager, Amazon Leo Customer Terminals

Job :  | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

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 Hardware 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 Hardware TPM, you will lead the HW development of a single customer terminal device working closely with the hardware architect and hardware functional teams including Electrical Engineering, Product Design, Antenna Engineering, and Industrial Design to meet Key Performance Metrics for technical and schedule requirements.

You will work with Customer Terminal Technical Program Manager to ensure hardware design and deliverables align with Diagnostic and Production Device software deliverables for key builds. You will collaborate with the System 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 HW TPM with a “Founder’s Mentality” and own the Device HW 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.

Senior Hardware TPM 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 elevate them as required when teams are unable to reach a consensus or decisions are one – way door.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing execution of the Device Hardware 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 development team 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

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering…