Supplier Technical Program Manager, Project Kuiper
Amazon
Description
Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
Specifically, in this role you will:
• Monitor and resolve supply chain challenges, including material availability, capacity constraints, and logistics, to ensure on-time delivery.
• Track supplier performance to cost, quality, and schedule targets; identify risks early and implement mitigation plans to maintain program commitments.
• Lead supplier readiness for production by ensuring manufacturing processes, tooling, and resources are capable of meeting program requirements for large composite structures.
• Partner with internal engineering, operations, and quality teams to resolve technical and production issues, ensuring supplier alignment with Kuiper program needs.
• Drive supplier improvement initiatives in yield, throughput, and cycle time, implementing best practices to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Work with a range of stakeholders including business leaders, engineering leaders, legal, program management, and supply chain to negotiate a variety of agreements and contracts including term sheets, MOUs, NDAs, SOWs, development agreements, component purchase agreements and others.
• Build strong relationships with supplier leadership and cross-functional stakeholders, enabling transparent issue resolution and alignment on program objectives.
• Act as the primary interface between Kuiper operations, engineering, and supply chain team, resolving production and technical issues to ensure reliable, on-time delivery