Sr Technical Program Manager , Kuiper Government Solutions, Program Management Team

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. The mission of Project Kuiper’s Government Solutions (KGS) is to leverage Kuiper and provide high speed, low latency, and secure satellite broadband services to United States and allied government customers.

You will work in a collaborative, analytical, and fast-paced environment and must be comfortable interacting with highly technical cross-functional teams. The candidate must have strong business judgment, dive deep into data, have strong writing skills, and be comfortable leading executive-level reviews.

The best candidates will have deep understanding of design, development, and operations of satellite systems. Candidates with demonstrated experience within deployed satellite telecommunications services will be preferred.

This position may require access to export-controlled information (ECI) subject to EAR and ITAR. Final employment decision is contingent upon satisfactory completion of export control screenings and obtaining any necessary export licenses or approvals, based on nationality, citizenship, and other factors considered by applicable export control regulations.

Key job responsibilities

You will work closely with the commercial satellite and consumer terminal teams to organize resources, schedule milestones, and track achievements in the group. In addition, you will be responsible for identifying project dependencies and critical paths in government systems development.

On a day-to-day basis, you will coordinate among teams to surface and solve the critical risks to the programs you are assigned to lead. In this role you will:

• Propose and drive adoption of improvements to the Kuiper program for government users
• Act as the point of contact for Kuiper Government Satellite Systems with external teams, partners, and subcontractors to identify and mitigate programmatic risks
• Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on the plans, status, and critical issues.
• Document trade studies for intra-team review for stakeholder buy-in
• Organize regular project and team meetings, focusing design teams on program milestones and unblock technical issues
• Develop, track, & communicate project schedules and achievements
• Drive engineering project execution, develop project plans, make technical trade-offs, manage risks, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues
• Work closely with partner organizations (including government agencies) to develop work packages
• Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver customer solutions to cost, performance and schedule requirements.

• Experience in technical product or program management
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Physics, or related field, or equivalent experience- Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Engineering leadership experience with aerospace or satellite and ground-based development technologies

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