Senior Program Manager Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

As a Technical Program Manager, you are naturally curious about technology innovation and how it can be applied to solve real-world problems. You are part of a team of amazing technical program managers who help deliver on a vision to provide the best possible customer experience across Microsoft platforms and services.  You empathize deeply with the challenge's developers face and have a drive to build the best technical platforms and experiences for our customers.

You will lead our strategic technology engagement efforts in coordination with global technical delivery teams to accelerate and improve Azure adoption.  You will synthesize and communicate the top customer concerns, improve the skills and quality of engagement of our customer facing teams, standardize customer evaluation and validation of new or emerging technologies, and enable customers worldwide to more easily build applications using Microsoft Azure services.

We are seeking a candidate with the following qualifications and experience

o 5+ years of program management or other technology related experience

o A deep technical understanding of modern cloud computing technologies (such as Kubernetes, Dockers, Pivotal Cloud) in the core Technical Domain of Application Platform Services

o Success in consultative and/or technical leadership (e.g. architect) and engagement management with sophisticated and complex customers and projects

o Minimum of 3 years of practical hands on experience working in customer-facing technical roles

o BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

o 25% travel

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

o Work with globally distributed Software Engineers to manage an Azure Technical Domain (Application Platform Services) aligned to strategic technical engagements

o Ensure consistently high-quality proof of concept, architecture design and review, and production systems in a cloud scale, cloud pace environment through globally distributed technical delivery teams

o Develop and manage a global orchestration model, cadence and success indicators for customer engineering engagements using cutting edge Azure services and technologies

o Develop content and lead delivery of new strategic technology engagements centered on sharing top customer adoption patterns through code with engagements

o Define and maintain technical channels to enable and support globally distributed technical delivery teams building apps that leverage our Azure services

o Listen to and understand customer use cases and scenarios, translate these into viable cloud architectures and communicate at an executive level.

o Share customer insights, technical collateral and presentations with the ability to adapt for various levels of stakeholders

o Execute on the strategic technology engagement model with global technical delivery teams to ensure developers, customers and partners have an amazing experience and success every time they work with Microsoft