Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

This role is for a Senior Product Manager - Technical in Kuiper who will be responsible for driving roadmap, requirements and feature delivery across embedded SW components. You will work with your customers and partners to refine requirements, understand constraints, anticipate emerging and future capability needs, and iteratively delivering value to our customers.

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
• Work across Kuiper teams and customers to design software systems and interfaces roadmap.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from inception to launch
• Understand and articulate customer needs, conduct on-going customer research, leverage internal knowledge and expertise, and prioritize feature requirements
• Understand and synthesize wired and wireless technologies to define leading edge products for our customers
• Inspire the team with the product vision, and work cross-functionally to bring the product to life
• Write detailed product requirements documents and define use cases, features, and KPIs and drive tradeoff discussions and decisions with the development teams

About the team
The Kuiper Customer Terminals Software teams build and maintain the core software that powers the customer terminals on the Kuiper network. The team is highly cross functional and is responsible for low level device drivers, secure manufacturing, MAC and PHY interactions, data plane, control plane and network communications. The team traverses the entire OSI model and works across L1-L7 layers.