Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology? Amazon’s Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
The program manager (PM) will be working on large, complex, and strategic business and technology initiatives. They will develop a common vision and scope, establish timelines, and execute deliverables working across Kuiper and Amazon teams. The PM will own service launch planning, manage operational readiness, align teams, and track progress for work streams across the globe. In addition, this position will work side by side with business analysts defining our practices and processes for our residential customer business in countries around the world.
Key job responsibilities
The role requires exceptional written and verbal communication skills, facilitation skills, and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams. This role will have high visibility and requires executive presence and be comfortable providing updates to SVPs, VPs, and Directors across Amazon teams. The PM has to be structured and flexible at the same time to accommodate learnings as the business scales. They will possess analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
The ideal candidate will be a seasoned change management leader that can earn trust, thrive in ambiguous situations, understand dependencies, and can bring multiple stakeholders on the journey. They will think strategically but execute tactically from inception to delivery, with demonstrated experience leading business, technology, and people-oriented programs. The PM is right a lot and has strong judgement, supported with data to solve problems.
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.
A day in the life
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious and earn trust.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space based systems design and wireless systems.
About the team
The Global Development team mission is to plan, develop and execute on strategies to launch and operate Kuiper services globally. Through regional and local country operations, our team is responsible for delivering revenue from residential and small business broadband services. On a global level, the team drives (a) Capacity allocation by country (b) Pricing methodologies and consumer and indirect consumer pricing (c) Portfolio management of service plans, and demand forecasts for customer endpoints, usage and revenue. On a regional and country level, the team develops business models, local and regional partnerships and fixed service operations in service enabled countries.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
– 7+ years of program or project management experience
– 7+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
– 7+ years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
– Bachelor’s degree
– Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
– Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
– Experience defining and executing program requirements
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $111,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $206,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.