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Microsoft · 12 hours ago

Principal Technical Program Manager - AI Network Acceleration

Phoenix, AZ

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and deployment teams to ensure all network dependencies are identified and addressed.

Develop and implement strategies to reduce the AI network deployment cycle time, leveraging automation, tools, and creative solutions.

Ensure alignment of network configurations with overall data center deployment timelines and capacity delivery goals.

Guides teams to identify opportunities and gaps in process implementation, solicit customer feedback, and perform research.

Advocates for data-driven decision-making and ensures alignment between customers, market, internal stakeholders, and Microsoft’s goals and strategy.

Leads and coaches teams to develop problem statements and hypotheses for features and process improvements across divisional boundaries.

Leads teams to perform experiments to test hypotheses and inform decisions.

Establishes clarity of root problems and trends, and leads process improvements.

Facilitates collaboration between their team and partner teams to bring about solutions.

Drive broad initiatives across the organization.

Define organizational strategies for managing a diverse portfolio of products.

Acts as a subject matter expert in orchestrating and integrating efforts for the development and implementation of features on large cross-functional projects.

Drives collaboration and coordination across teams to ensure alignment on product management and release.

Guides teams to partner with engineering to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for features.

Drives teams to understand the value proposition and justify capacity requirements.

Partners with engineering to ensure alignment with goal updates and tradeoffs.

Guides teams in tracking, coordinating, and communicating end-to-end project schedules for features.

Ensures teams establish and monitor processes, track and manage dependencies, and make adjustments when projects are not aligned to schedules or goals.

Drives teams to develop the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with OKRs and KPIs for features.

Ensures teams collaborate with stakeholders to monitor progress and adjust as needed.

Helps teams lead governance programs and processes to ensure performance requirements and standards are met throughout the development lifecycle.

Provides expertise in partnering with others to collect performance metrics, monitor and report on progress, and derive insights to improve development, iteration, and implementation of features.

Leverages customer listening systems, telemetry, and engagements to develop insights on product performance and customer needs.

Leads teams to form hypotheses, perform experiments, and iterate to drive improvement in specific performance metrics.

Embody our culture and values.

Qualification

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Technical Program ManagementData AnalysisNetwork EngineeringCross-functional Project ManagementSQLPowerBI

Required

Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development + OR equivalent experience.

3+ years 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. 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 every two years thereafter.

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development + OR equivalent experience.

8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

6+ years of experience as a network engineer or technical program manager for networks deployments, preferably at one or more hyperscale cloud providers.

Proven track record with delivering network, networking product and/or production deployments; and scaling usage / consumption of product and services.

1+ year(s) SQL & PowerBI experience

Company

Microsoft

Glassdoor

4.3

Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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