Amazon

Principal Technical Program Manager, Payload SW

Amazon$177K — $239K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
  • 10+ years working directly with engineering teams
  • 7+ years of software development experience
  • Experience managing cross-functional team programs
  • Proven ability in building processes and coordinating release schedules

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Satellite Payload software development
  • Ensure development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements with product management
  • Drive project execution, manage technical trade-offs, and resolve blocking issues
  • Work with architecture and firmware teams to track cross-functional deliverables
  • Aggregate technical specifications for Satellite Payload and Data Plane software
  • Establish and manage project mechanisms including scrums, budgets, and schedules
  • Map hardware/software dependencies and track milestone accuracy

Benefits

  • Health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Comprehensive paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Mental Health Support and Employee Assistance Program
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
The Leo team is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager with stronge experience in wir3eless communications/networking and embedded software, project management, and program management. The role will interface with cross-functional engineering and program/product management teams with primary focus on delivering top quality Satellite and ground Payload and Data Plane software. Join us and make a difference to people around the world.

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.

Key job responsibilities

In this role you will:

- Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Satellite Payload software development across the entire software stack including data, management plane

- Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.

- Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.

- Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.

- Aggregate and convert technical specifications for Leo's Satellite Payload and Data Plane software systems

- Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery for the Satellite Payload and Data Plane software

- Map HW / SW co-dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones

- Work closely across the org on new HW bring up.

A day in the life

In this role, you will build and scale Leo's Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development programs. You are accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Leo's Satellite Payload system and Data Plane, and their integration with rest of Leo system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.

About the team

The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering and end to end Networking systems for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to delivery last mile and back-haul internet services.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience

- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

- 7+ years of software development experience

- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience

- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually

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