Microsoft · 1 day ago
Senior Startup Development Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft for Startups is a global team that collaborates with early-stage startups to help them leverage Microsoft’s resources for their growth. As a Senior Startup Development Manager, you will act as a trusted advisor, enabling startups to innovate using Microsoft’s Cloud and AI technologies while partnering internally to support their development and go-to-market strategies.
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Responsibilities
You’ll help customers deploy features and/or services launched by the engineering team by aligning deployment modules with the customers, and validating the success of the deployment
You will monitor internal data quality dashboards to determine customers’ and partners’ usage health post-launch
While collecting and encouraging customer and partner feedback through various tools, identifying ways to improve deployments and products, you’ll also manage customer success to prevent customer escalations
You will directly interact with challenging/senior-level customers and engineers to conduct quarterly reviews to understand customers' deployment stage. And you will support the field team with customer issues, prioritizing and flagging for the product/engineering team
As you engage in partner enablement activities to help customers learn about the product and proper usage of the products, you will update them on new product features and functionalities
You’ll support the development of best practices for customer stories and product usage and of written content to build product utility in the community
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field AND 4+ years experience in technical program/product management, coding, software development/delivery work + OR equivalent experience
3+ years of customer-facing experience
1+ year(s) of experience in Azure Cloud and AI services and familiarity with open-source AI/ML frameworks
1+ year(s) of proficiency collaborating with early-stage startups to understand their technical needs and constraints
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting + OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience working cloud native applications
Technical Certification in Cloud Solution Architecture (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
Company
Microsoft
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