Job Description
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.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in supplier development, contract negotiations, and performance management, with the ability to address supplier performance issues and drive results in new and ambiguous environments. This role requires strong program management expertise, technical depth, and the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across diverse cross-functional stakeholders to advance Kuiper’s mission.
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
About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious and earn trust.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space based systems design and wireless systems.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of people management experience
- 5+ years of technical program management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 5+ years experience in Supply Chain Operations
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Full time, Contract work,