Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
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.
The TPM III for Launch Operations/Kuiper Government Services will act at the Single Threaded Owner for inputs and outputs to Launch Operations for KGS and Hosted Payload Services. This individual will work closely with engineering and manufacturing teams to integrate Kuiper satellites for KGS/HPS with dispenser and launch vehicle hardware.
The TPM III is a technical leader of the team, providing guidance on many aspects including but not limited to KGS/HPS related: testing requirements, assembly/integration work cell design or modifications within the payload processing facilities, facility and equipment planning, integration and test application implementation and improvement, process control, design for manufacturability, project management, and tooling design. The candidate will work closely with Launch Operations/Mission Management that own the Launch Provider relationships, Dispenser provider relationships, and Payload Processing Facility leadership, reachback into Kuiper Commercial services engineering teams, as well as be the Launch Operations liaison for KGS/HPS leadership.
The ideal candidate is comfortable in a highly technical setting and leads collaboration with other departments to reach the best solution to any problem and is able to technically challenge assumptions and requirements of these departments, such as dynamics and thermal analysis, design engineering, and tooling engineering.
They'll have extensive experience in space hardware integration and test, with particular focus on satellite to dispenser and/or launch vehicle integration.
You will own coordination across the entire organization to facilitate KGS/HPS satellite launches.
Key job responsibilities
Day-to-day management of deliverables, dependencies and schedule, as well as driving this complex project through its incremental phases. You will collaborate with Kuiper's leadership team at all levels to establish processes that track our goals, objectives, milestones, progress and risks, and drive organizational alignment on trade-offs and priorities. Establish and lead an ongoing launch readiness program to systematically drive progress and complete critical program milestones.
Identify and operationalize the metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) necessary to track progress, and drive issue resolution & mitigation at a granular level across the organization.
**This role is located in Bellevue, WA or Kennedy Space Center, FL and candidate will be required to be onsite. No location flexibility.
Key job responsibilities
Maintain integrated launch schedule
Interface cross-functionally with TPM, Engineering, and Production Operations organizations
Support creation of launch operations standard operating procedures
Day-to-day management of deliverables, dependencies and schedule, as well as driving this complex project through its incremental phases. You will collaborate with Kuiper's leadership team at all levels to establish processes that track our goals, objectives, milestones, progress and risks, and drive organizational alignment on trade-offs and priorities.
Establish and lead an ongoing launch readiness program to systematically drive progress and complete critical program milestones.
Identify and operationalize the metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) necessary to track progress, and drive issue resolution & mitigation at a granular level across the organization.
**This role is located in Bellevue, WA or Kennedy Space Center, FL and candidate will be required to be onsite. No location flexibility.- 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- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- 5+ years Space hardware and/or rocket launch operations experience.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/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
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