Responsibilities

We are looking for a dynamic Program Manager to join the Azure Compute team with experience of working with software or infrastructure products. This includes working closely with customers and getting to solutions that best fit their needs.  In this role, you will be hands-on to help design customer solutions and extract insight to improve the platform.  You’ll work directly with engineering to bring impact through customer success. You will influence the product strategy and feature roadmap to improve in-market offerings.

Ideally, we are looking for someone who has written code, operated infrastructure, deployed containers, and can get in the technical weeds. We want someone who gets great satisfaction from guiding enterprises towards a technology they believe in. We are looking for folks who have credibility and recognition with their peers on mediums such as GitHub, Twitter, and Medium, and are equally comfortable working with decision makers at large enterprises. This opportunity is for the technical product focused program manager who just does not want to be part of an industry movement but wants to be out front leading it. Passion is key.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Experience building and designing cloud-based solutions
• Experience as a product program or project manager
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience working with cloud customers on business critical workloads on a cloud solution provider, with a deep understanding of the pre-requisites, necessary steps and support required to make a customer/successful on every step of the journey.
• BS or Master’s Degree (preferably in Computer Science/Engineering or Business).
• Previous experience working with top tier customers and across the customer and Microsoft internal stakeholder landscape.
• A structural, repeatable approach in solving complex problems, can communicate to senior decision makers in a clear, compelling way, and drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large organization.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements, scenarios into products and services, ability to deliver results in an environment of ambiguity.
• Strong collaboration skills, able to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large organization and deliver results that depend on other divisions and external partners.
• Excellent communication skills, strong leadership and influencing skills. 
   

** This position can be remote 

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check:  This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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