Senior Program Manager — Leo Satellite & Ground Ops

Amazon Inc.; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a Principle Program Manager for Leo Bus & Flight Operations in Redmond, WA. You will own end-to-end program strategy, aligning roadmaps across satellite command, file transfer, telemetry, and logging workstreams.

As a senior program leader, you will partner with engineering to translate objectives into actionable plans, manage cross-team risks, report metrics, and drive development velocity and reliability for Leo satellite Internet

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end program strategy for Leo satellite onboard agents and ground services, aligning roadmaps across satellite command, file transfer, telemetry, and logging workstreams.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders to translate business and mission objectives into actionable program plans, driving clarity on scope, dependencies, and sequencing across embedded software (C, C++, Rust) and AWS cloud service development.
• Identify, track, and resolve cross-team risks, blockers, and dependencies between Leo ground service teams and satellite agent teams to keep programs on schedule.
• Define and report on program metrics/OKRs that reflect delivery health, space safety posture, and service availability for Leo satellite Internet customers.
• Drive operational rigor - business reviews, roadmap planning, retrospectives - and build mechanisms that scale as the team and fleet grow.
• Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and stakeholders across engineering, product, and operations.
• Lead process improvements that increase development velocity and quality across the software development lifecycle, from requirements through implementation, test, and operations.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Embedded software

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

AWS cloud

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a Principle Program Manager for Leo Bus & Flight Operations in Redmond, WA. You will own end-to-end program strategy, aligning roadmaps across satellite command, file transfer, telemetry, and logging workstreams.

As a senior program leader, you will partner with engineering to translate objectives into actionable plans, manage cross-team risks, report metrics, and drive development velocity and reliability for Leo satellite Internet