Technical Program/Product Manager

Location: Redmond, Wa (M-F on-site)

Duration: 6 months

Pay Range: $65/hr - $75/hr

Schedule: 8am-5pm (40 hrs/wk)

HOURS: 8am-5pm PST, 40 hrs/wk. 100% onsite but if needed to work remote on occasion there's flexibility.

Immediate opening for a Technical Program Manager. The projects require timely execution with the highest degrees of security, performance, availability, and reliability. This position requires a technical and program management background and direct experience developing relevant systems. You will create and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but will also roll up your sleeves and contribute directly by digging deep into Program Level Schedule Management, the Satellite Build, Integration Testing and management of configuration control. A Senior TPM anticipates bottlenecks, uses great judgment to make trade-offs, and balances the business needs with technical constraints. Your ability to understand the big picture of the project design and anticipate and plan dependencies is crucial. Your ability to take large, complex projects, break them into manageable pieces, and deliver timely results is invaluable. You will work with a team of experts and drive the team to successfully accomplish the following activities:

- Support Principal TPM and Sr TPMs in developing and managing integrated program Schedule, Engineering Change Control, Build and Testing of Satellites

- Coordinate and manage alignment, trade studies and analyses necessary to ensure that all schedules retain compliance with the technical design, interfaces, requirements, and programmatic schedule, cost and production requirements.

- Expert level in using Smartsheet in developing schedules, reports, etc

- Support Principal TPM and Sr TPMs in Program managing like tracking of actions, minutes, schedules and conducting the meetings.

- Innovate and evolve Program Tracking mechanisms as the project evolves through its life cycle.

- Support the Program Integrated Schedule, manage timeline, dependencies, and deliverables etc.

- Coordinate the work with teams developing other systems as well as assembly, integration and tests.

- Optimize the velocity of engineering development through the design and application of mechanisms.

- Manage timeline, dependencies, and deliverables.

- You will also act as a bridge for Sr TPMs in the central TPM team on schedule and risks managements. The work will include but not limited to day to day management/tracking/follow up of Smartsheet schedules/dependencies, generate executive level reports, managing JIRA system/reporting for Risks/issues tracking and creating dashboards.

You will have the opportunity to make an impact in where the business goes.

***MUST be Expert level with Smartsheet and Good Knowledge of Confluence and Jira***