Sr. Technical Program Manager, Prime Air

Key job responsibilities

• Drive the technical program lifecycle for systems responsible for building comprehensive world models, mission planning engines, and dynamic airspace environments.
• Ensure our drones navigate a rich, real-time representation of the physical and regulatory world.
• Own the program strategy for scaling systems as we expand operations to numerous new sites globally.
• Ensure our software architectures, data pipelines, and deployment frameworks can seamlessly handle a massive multi-site footprint without compromising reliability or safety.
• Look around corners to define, influence, and execute 3-to-5-year technology roadmaps.
• Collaborate closely with Applied Science, Software Engineering, and Hardware teams to align cross-functional technical dependencies and pioneer next-generation autonomous capabilities.
• Partner with top-notch developers, systems engineers, safety, and security teams to translate complex technical challenges into execution-ready milestones.
• Synthesize ambiguous inputs into crisp technical requirements and drive execution with high ownership.

About The Team

We are a high-performing, multidisciplinary organization of applied scientists, software development engineers, and systems engineers who are redefining the future of flight. Our culture is unique: we operate at the intersection of rigorous aerospace safety standards and high-velocity Amazon agility. We don't sacrifice speed for compliance, nor safety for speed; instead, we build innovative, deterministic architectures that allow us to move fast because they are safe.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership