Senior Technical Program Manager

Senior Technical Program Manager

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin’s mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

In this role, you will partner with strong technical leaders to drive the long-term vision of the organization, own delivery of cross-organization initiatives, assist in developing and leading organization roadmaps, driving efficiency in processes, and delivering on goals. You understand, utilize, and share program-management best practices. You may be assigned to manage the roadmap for an organization, which may include contributing to AOP narratives, and ownership of one or more organizational goals.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you are accountable for the overall strategy as well as driving teams inside and outside your organization to deliver. You are able to define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set goals, analyze data, drive improvements that are quantified with metrics, and influence resource allocation. You understand the systems in your product or program space, their limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural choices.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the design, development, testing, and deployment of features into production across multiple technical teams.
• Create and track project milestones, risks, and dependencies, and to describe, own, and prioritize all technical requirements associated with delivery.
• 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, identify which existing systems or services will be required to change in order to implement the new capability, and work 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.
• Understand the significant business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind decisions.
• Demonstrate good judgment in how and when to escalate.
• Be data-oriented, regularly review metrics, and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility.
• Ensure your programs stay aligned with organizational goals.
• Ensure stakeholder needs are aligned, while driving mindful discussions that lead to crisp decisions.
• Partner with customers, internal/external teams, and/or engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what sequence.
• Write effective narratives, program updates, and present them effectively to stakeholders and management team.
• Create plans that have clear, measurable success criteria and return on investment. Oversee the gap between teams, processes, and systems.
• Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• Oversee the gap between teams, processes, and system architectures.
• 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 the use of third-party technologies, APIs not protected/hardened, insufficient testing/gaps in QA).
• Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.
• 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 KPIs/SLAs 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.

Compensation Range for WA applicants is $140,959.00-$197,342.25. Other site ranges may differ.

Culture Statement: Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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Background Check: Required for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check. Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation.

Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program. Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays. Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

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