Technical Program Manager, Amazon Leo Manufacturing Software Systems

About the role

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, with capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve individual households, schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Leo Manufacturing Software Systems (MSS) is seeking an exceptional Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive complex technical initiatives within MSS' team parent org of Leo Production Engineering Platforms (LPEP) and also outside of LPEP, working with customers on the manufacturing floor.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software engineering, hardware engineering, product management, and business development to define and execute technical strategies for MSS, LPEP and their customers.
• Serve as a key liaison between platform customers (access owners, data consumers, and manufacturing teams) and software development teams, gathering requirements, identifying opportunities, and championing solutions that address customer pain points while ensuring stakeholder alignment.
• Establish and maintain robust program management processes to track goals, milestones, and KPIs, ensuring alignment with Amazon Leo's strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with Leadership to author Monthly Business Review (MBR) and other rhythm of business updates.
• Own the delivery and adoption of services, applications and components that enable hardware tests in satellite manufacturing and gather relevant execution results and telemetry.
• Collaborate with teams from manufacturing engineering, product engineering, and security engineering to identify requirements and design solutions.
• Partner with internal teams and contract manufacturers to standardize test execution and manufacturing telemetry collection.

Qualifications

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Must be a U.S. Citizen to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed

Preferred qualifications

• 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

About the team

Amazon Leo Manufacturing Software Systems (MSS) team builds comprehensive software solutions, test frameworks, information systems and manufacturing test stations that power manufacturing test operations as satellites are produced. Working closely with hardware, software, and test engineering teams, MSS delivers the tools and frameworks that enable consistent test operations - from fabrication to final provisioning - across internal facilities and external contract manufacturers. The team's mission is to transform Leo's manufacturing into a repeatable, highly available, and controlled process by standardizing, automating and simplifying manufacturing test development and execution, while maintaining rigorous security and compliance standards both at internal facilities and global contract manufacturing sites.

Pay

• USA, NY, New York: $139,900.00 - $189,200.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Bellevue: $127,100.00 - $172,000.00 USD annually
• Package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs); final compensation based on experience, qualifications, and location

Schedule

• On-site role requiring employees to work from the company's office 5 days per week