Principal TPM, Delivery Drone Program Management, Prime Air

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Amazon Prime Air (PA) has been rapidly expanding this year both nationally and establishing our first international site. We are seeking a Principal TPM to oversee the development hardware and software integration within our ultra-fast drone delivery operations. This role is responsible for driving cross-functional alignment, manages integrated schedules, and ensures hardware and software deliverables converge on time to support flight-test milestones. The swift development of new drone designs is key to both improved customer experience and facilitating delivery into new markets.

Your ability to understand complex system integration in a rapidly moving environment and engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels will be critical to success in this role.

Key job responsibilities
Hardware & Software Coordination - Serve as the integration point between hardware engineering and software development teams, ensuring dependencies are identified, tracked, and resolved. Maintain a unified program schedule that reflects both HW and SW critical paths.

Schedule & Critical-Path Management - Maintain the integrated master schedule, identify critical-path risks, and drive mitigation actions. Provide regular status to leadership with clear escalation of schedule threats.

Cross-Functional Integration - Facilitate program-level mechanisms (status reviews, design reviews, TRBs) to maintain alignment across disciplines.

Risk & Issue Management - Proactively surface risks, coordinate tiger-team responses, and track issues to closure. Ensure trade-off decisions are made with full visibility to cost, schedule, and technical impact.

Stakeholder Communication - Deliver concise, decision-ready program updates to senior leadership. Represent the program in reviews and ensure commitments are clearly documented and tracked.

A day in the life
As the Drone Program TPM, your day revolves around keeping hardware, software, and flight-test teams moving in sync. Mornings start with stand-ups and schedule checks, followed by coordination meetings with manufacturing, flight sciences, and safety stakeholders. Afternoons are spent in program reviews, resolving blockers, and updating leadership on schedule health and risks. You close the day by refreshing trackers and teeing up the next day's priorities. The role is less about building and more about driving clarity, unblocking teams, and ensuring every workstream converges on the next milestone.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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USA, WA, Seattle - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually