Sr. Technical Program Manager - Open Source, Kiro

Overview As Technical Program Manager for Kiro Labs, you will turn the incubator into a durable, scalable program by owning the publishing pipeline, governance, lifecycle, and metrics. You’ll connect product, open source strategy, security, legal, marketing, and customer success to move internal innovations into the public domain. You’ll dive deep technically to understand contributors’ builds and program-manage to ship quickly while maintaining a healthy ecosystem. This role offers impact through shaping governance, tooling, and external engagement for the Kiro Labs community. Compensation / Benefitshealth insurance (medical, dental, vision)401(k) matchingpaid time offparential leaverestricted stock units (RSUs)sign-on payments ResponsibilitiesOwn the publishing pipeline end to end from proposal to public repo creation and reviewsDesign and implement governance model including review committee, siting decision rights and SLAsCoordinate cross-functional dependencies across product, open source strategy, security, legal/IP, marketing, and customer successDefine and operate project lifecycle states (active, maintenance, archived) and sunset processesDefine and report KPIs (projects published, external engagement, adoption, time-to-publish, awareness growth) and communicate progress to leadershipIntroduce automated quality checks and SOPs to scale operationsManage blockers and provide a single point of contact for contributors Key requirements5+ years of technical product or program management experience7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teamsExperience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedulesExperience presenting metrics and progress to senior leadershipcross-functional collaborationclear communicationproblem solvingprogram management with engineering collaborationgovernance design and security review processesopen source project lifecycle and licensing compliance