Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

We have an immediate opening for a Sr, Technical Program Manager to support the Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) team focusing on Space Network Solutions for U.S. Government NASA, DoD, and National Security customers. As a Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for establishing and tracking milestones and project priorities to maximize development efficiency, identify project critical paths, and ensure supplier/partner products are delivered on time and to Amazon Leo specifications. 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 aerospace/satellite and systems engineering, as well as DoD/IC cyber and security standards, practices and assessments. Candidates with demonstrated experience in deployed secure satellite telecommunications services will be preferred.

Key job responsibilities
This role is responsible for defining Amazon Leo's government communication systems provisioning, management, and monitoring solutions in support of a wide variety of government customer ground, air, maritime, and space based users utilizing Amazon Leo's Low Earth Orbit satellites. This is a unique opportunity to assist in the development of a global broadband communication system. You will work closely with the commercial satellite teams to organize resources, schedule milestones, and track program progress. You will be responsible for identifying project dependencies and critical paths. On a day-to-day basis, you will coordinate among teams and subcontractors 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 Amazon Leo program to improve government user utility and satisfaction
• Act as the point of contact for Amazon Leo for Government with external teams, partners, and subcontractors for assigned solutions, to identify and mitigate programmatic risks in order to meet established goals
• Communicate clearly and effectively to executive management on the plans, status, and critical issues in narrative and verbal formats. Escalate urgent issues appropriately and drive them to closure in a timely manner
• Unblock technical issues by pulling together the multi-functional technical expertise to resolve issues
• Develop, track, & communicate project schedules and achievements
• Drive 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 and ensure that all teams have what they need to be successful
• Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver customer solutions to meet cost, performance and schedule requirements.

Some travel, primarily domestic, will be required.

Security Clearance: This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Sr. Tech Program Manager, Amazon Leo for Government