Microsoft · 10 hours ago
Head of Program Office
Burlington, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leader in building innovative solutions for the healthcare industry, dedicated to improving patient care. The Head of Program Office will drive product delivery across the diagnostics suite, lead a team of program managers, and ensure alignment across various functions to deliver high-quality healthcare solutions.
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Responsibilities
Serve as a people manager for a team of program managers (ICs). You will hire, coach, and mentor team members, setting goals and helping them grow their skills and careers. By modeling leadership behaviors and fostering an inclusive environment, you’ll build a motivated team that excels in collaboration and is passionate about our healthcare-focused mission
Orchestrate complex, multi-team programs to deliver the Diagnostics product roadmap. This includes defining project plans, schedules, and success criteria for multiple product areas, and driving execution to meet milestones. Tracking deliverables, while proactively identifying/mitigating risks, ensuring on-time delivery of high-quality solutions across the diagnostics portfolio
Coordinating across Product Management, UX Design, Engineering, and other partner teams to ensure objectives, dependencies, and timelines are in sync. You will facilitate alignment on requirements and priorities, maintain communication channels, and hold teams accountable to commitments. By providing data-driven updates and recommendations, you’ll keep both leadership and collaborators informed and engaged
Champion best practices in agile project management and release processes. You will run retrospectives and utilize metrics to identify opportunities to improve execution efficiency, product quality, and team productivity
Hold PMO and cross-discipline teams accountable by driving compliance with all privacy, security, accessibility, quality, responsibility, safety, and other legal and business requirements and standards
Act as an advocate for healthcare and life sciences considerations in all aspects of program delivery. You will ensure our diagnostics solutions meet healthcare compliance, Microsoft Security and Responsible AI fundamentals, quality standards (e.g. data privacy, regulatory requirements) while keeping the team’s work tightly aligned with the needs of healthcare organizations and patients
Embody our culture and values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development + OR equivalent experience
1+ years people management experience
3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
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
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development + OR equivalent experience
4+ years people management experience
8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
Company
Microsoft
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