Senior Technical Program Manager, Leo Security, Leo Security - METALS

About the role

The Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) at Amazon Leo Security will play a pivotal role in driving the security of the company's satellite constellation and protecting customer data. This role involves managing cross-functional working groups and projects, overseeing large, complex security initiatives, and partnering with security engineers and senior technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Be proactive in removing roadblocks, fostering innovation, and managing multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, driving continuous improvement and efficiency.
• Create, optimize, and support cross-functional working groups and projects, fostering collaboration and synergy across departments to enhance security capabilities.
• Manage tight deadlines with precision and drive results, exhibiting exceptional attention to detail and ensuring the successful completion of projects and initiatives.
• Own the program lifecycle for large, complex security initiatives spanning multiple teams and VP organizations, including mission, vision, tenets, and roadmap contributions.
• Partner with security engineers and senior technical leaders to perform program-level design reviews and risk assessments and ensure architectural choices appropriately balance short-term needs with long-term security posture.
• Develop and maintain program mechanisms – including risk registers, review processes, and reporting structures – to ensure security risks are tracked, escalated, and remediated in partnership with risk owners.
• Simplify and streamline cross-functional processes to increase selections velocity and reduce friction for solution teams.
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize data from a variety of sources to create compelling written and verbal communications for Director and VP-level audiences, including Amazon 6-pagers and Monthly Program Reviews.
• Build consensus among discordant views, escalate effectively, and ensure business and technical stakeholder needs are aligned across the program.

Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience triaging security risks or vulnerabilities and ensuring that they are properly understood by the business and fixed or mitigated
• Knowledge of cloud services such as AWS or equivalent
• Knowledge of one or more of the following domains: access-control system and methodology, network security, application- and system-development security, security architecture and models, cryptography, and operations security
• Background in satellite operations, aerospace, or highly regulated environments (ITAR/EAR)
• Experience building proof-of-concept services to validate requirements

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $148,700.00 - $201,200.00 annually.