Job Summary:
Blue Origin is a company envisioning millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. They are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to coordinate cross-organization initiatives, drive efficiency, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.
Responsibilities:
• You will coordinate the design, development, testing and deployment of features into production across multiple technical teams.
• You are expected to create and track project milestones, risks and dependencies, and to describe, own and prioritize all technical requirements associated with delivery.
• You will dive deep, and understand the design details of the systems in your area, especially those related to customer interfaces, and the expectations for system dependencies.
• During the early phases of a new project or program, the TPM is responsible for identifying which existing systems or services will be required to change in order to implement the new capability, and working with the SDM for each system to estimate the work involved.
• The TPM is responsible for the implementation plan across teams, and for reporting on progress against technical milestones to stakeholders.
• You will understand the significant business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind decisions.
• You will demonstrate good judgment in how and when to escalate.
• You are data-oriented, regularly review metrics, and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility.
• You will ensure your programs stay aligned with organizational goals.
• You will ensure stakeholder needs are aligned, while driving mindful discussions that lead to crisp decisions.
• You will partner with customers, internal/external teams, and/or engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what sequence.
• You will write effective narratives, program updates, and present them effectively to stakeholders and management team.
• You create plans that have clear, measurable success criteria and return on investment. You oversee the gap between teams, processes, and systems.
• You are able to solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• You oversee the gap between teams, processes, and system architectures.
• You help teams/your organization reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood/documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from of the use of third-party technologies, APIs not protected/hardened, insufficient testing/gaps in QA).
• You solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks)
• We are looking for someone to apply their organizational expertise, excellent communication skills, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience working directly with software engineering teams
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Preferred:
• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• 3+ years of software development 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
• Proven track record of delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives while managing multiple competing priorities.
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Experience with Confluence, JIRA
• Experience with data analysis to capture, process, and organize data to uncover actionable insights.
Company:
Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Kent, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.