Project Kuiper’s Technical Program Management team is looking for a detail-oriented, high-energy Senior Technical Program Manager to manage the release and assembly of high complexity PCBAs. You will be a key stakeholder during the development of a new and exciting product. You will be ensuring the product development phases are well defined, planned, and executed.
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
– Plan and schedule PCB design releases in line with overall program schedule and cross-team dependencies. Drive alignment on scope.
– Define hardware configurations and allocations based on cross-functional team needs and budget/capacity limitations.
– Build and maintain detailed PCBA release and build readiness plans. Drive and track progress against the plans. Coordinate between cross-functional teams to identify and track dependencies, identify risks and create mitigation plans.
– Maintain alignment with program-level schedule and milestones. Communicate status, risks, and blockers via multiple mechanisms to audiences at all levels.
– Work with a cross-functional team of EEs, MEs, Reliability engineers, CAD engineers, and Manufacturing engineers to resolve complex schedule and technical issues related to designing and building a PCBA. Drive issue resolution at a hands-on level when necessary.
– Create, manage, and track ECOs and deviations. Work with stakeholders and apply judgement to balance speed vs risk.
– Plan and manage PCBA builds at a contract manufacturer at a day-to-day level of detail, balancing stakeholder demands with CM capacity and efficiency. Make sure schedule and quality requirements are met. Work with engineers to resolving blocking manufacturing and quality issues.
– Coordinate PCBA deliveries with in-house assembly team using shared mechanisms.
– Apply project level priorities in ambiguous situations to drive decision making and alignment.
About the team
Project Kuiper is an initiative to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world using a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Redmond, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
– 8+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
– 7+ years of experience in program or project management in high tech hardware development.
– 10+ years experience working with cross functional teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– Master’s degree in a technical field such as Electrical Engineering
– Excellent verbal and written communication skills
– Excellent relationship building skills
– Ability to multitask and manage multiple programs efficiently
– Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
– Thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a can-do attitude, remain flexible & productive, adept in juggling tasks across multiple programs, proactive
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $119,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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.