Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Program Manager
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that delivers a wide range of online services to billions of individuals worldwide. They are seeking a Principal Program Manager to join their Strategic Planning and Architecture team, responsible for innovating hardware designs to support Microsoft's cloud growth and ensuring cross-team collaboration in product development.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Feature / Capabilities Planning: Understanding use cases for key Microsoft cloud services that require improved Security capabilities, and together with our architects mapping the services’ requirements to technical capabilities of underlying platform components
Hardware Planning– practices, processes, and methodologies. e. coalesce the team to successful milestone check-ins and results delivery throughout the Incubation / Innovation lifecycle
Coordinating and preparing milestone reviews, customer/partner/vendor presentations, and other key meetings. Maintaining relationships with peers inside and outside the team to ensure cross-group collaboration and connection with the CSI organization. cross-group collaboration is a must, as you’ll be the focal point for keeping engagements on-track with peer teams like Azure Compute, etc
Driving creation and monitoring of success criteria including performance, throughput, etc. and collaborating with our peer workload teams to monitor and ensure that the necessary metrics are deeply understood and available to help drive decision making
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
5+ years of experience with compute architecture and hardware/software networking technologies, including datacenter networking and network offloads
5+ years of experience with datacenter networking technologies, such as: 802.3 Ethernet and datacenter-specific Ethernet modifications, Infiniband, RDMA, and related technologies
5+ years of experience with network protocols, switching, and routing
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
Preferred
Communication skills, including the ability to build compelling internal/external presentations and technology-focused whitepapers, and comprehensive business review materials as well as the ability to translate abstract thoughts, key themes and tactics into understandable messages for broad consumption
Demonstrable knowledge and depth of security concepts, especially those pertaining to Cloud / Server architectures and business models
Demonstrated excellent analytical, problem resolution and decision-making skills
Superior judgment, team building, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure required
Proven experience in effective cross group, cross company, and cross industry collaboration
Personal maturity, i.e. lives and models Microsoft values
Adaptability, flexibility and the ability to deal with ambiguity associated with working in a fast paced and changing environment with a highly organized, process-focused aptitude
Demonstrated problem solving and negotiating skills; the ability to deal with conflict and multiple constituencies and manage multiple simultaneous objectives is imperative
Must be conversant in software and hardware architectures. Includes knowledge of the component technologies (networking, silicon, storage, memory, etc.) in the hardware industry
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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