Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Leo Customer Terminals

About the role

Amazon LEO (Project Kuiper) aims to deploy a constellation of 3,236 low‑Earth‑orbit satellites to deliver fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities worldwide. The Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) will support the development and certification of aviation products, leading product development for the aviation market, managing qualification testing, driving programs with aviation partners for manufacturing, certification (STC), and OEM interfaces, and ensuring hardware design meets STC and OEM requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of aviation products, overseeing qualification testing and driving programs with aviation partners for manufacturing, certification (STC), and OEM interfaces.
• Manage the product lifecycle from core design to aviation requirements, collaborating with Operations, software/hardware engineering, customers, product managers, and manufacturing partners for NPI.
• Ensure hardware design and deliverables align with STC and OEM requirements for key builds.
• Collaborate with customers, suppliers, Device TPM, Product Integrity, Finance, and Operations (Quality, Operations Program Managers, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering) to mitigate challenges and maintain milestones.
• Manage execution of qualification, certification, and development of hardware and software, balancing technical skills, bias for action, customer obsession, and ownership.
• Collaborate daily onsite with the hardware development team in Redmond, WA (Product Design, Industrial Design, Electrical, Antenna teams).
• Create weekly agendas and presentations for Director‑ and VP‑level meetings to make timely one‑way and two‑way door decisions that maintain timelines, finances, requirements, and deliverables.
• Emphasize speed of decision‑making within product development cycles and manage critical issues through optimized prioritization of resources and personnel.
• Scale and evolve key processes and design‑review checkpoints to enable responsible last‑minute decision‑making on one‑way and two‑way door decisions.
• Work with overseas customers and internal/external teams on product development, escalating issues when consensus cannot be reached.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
• Experience managing programs across cross‑functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or equivalent.
• Export control eligibility: U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines (scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, critical path).
• Experience managing