Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Project Kuiper is an initiative to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to communities around the world using a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites.
Innovation lies at the core of our organization's mission. We are seeking talented individuals eager to contribute to an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space and ground-based systems. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to engage in continual learning and skills development while being part of a team whose work positively impacts the lives of millions worldwide. We foster an environment that values creativity, diligence, and the collective pursuit of technical excellence.
The Senior Technical Program Manager (Sr TPM) is responsible for coordinating across the entire Kuiper program and maintaining the program schedule and program of record (POR). This is a high-visibility role responsible for cross-functional leadership and coordination across all Kuiper workstreams on both the space and ground side. This is a technical role requiring knowledge of end-end space systems.
Key job responsibilities
• Perform all aspects of Technical Program Management to develop and maintain the Kuiper schedule and program of record (POR)
• Collaborate with engineers and engineering leaders to create project execution plans with detailed dependencies.
• Understand how technical requirements and interfaces drive and tie into the program schedule
• In collaboration with the engineering and supply chain teams, participate in periodic business reviews for the ground system and service readiness domains
• Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
• Work with product/program management leads to ensure that the systems development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
• Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-off recommendations, understand the technical challenges, enable solutions, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
• Adhere to Program Management practices for the team including risk management, requirements management, verification and validation.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of hardware, software, system integration and test development of complex systems across the full product life cycle – concept to production.
- 5+ years of experience in a technical lead, systems engineer, or technical program management role with significant experience integrating ground and space systems
- Proficiency with at least one schedule tracking tools such as MS Project, SmartSheet or alternative.
Job Tags
Full time, Worldwide,