Principal Program Manager

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

This Principal Program Manager (People Manager) role leading the supercomputing Artificial Intelligence Hardware Program Manager Team will play a pivotal role in hardware and software development and of the AI technologies at scale that have a significant impact to the business and Azure. This candidate will collaborate with both internal Microsoft teams and external suppliers (OEMs/ODMs, GPU's, CPU, system, memory and others to drive delivery of core technologies that enable our AI infrastructure. If you are an experienced Principal Program Manager (People Manager) with experience building high-performing, diverse teams and a broad background in enterprise data center technologies from servers to infrastructure, processors, GPU's and high power computing solutions and a desire to work with some of the world's most talented engineers to deliver the hardware that drives the Cloud, then this is the opportunity for you! This is an excellent opportunity to work on next generation architecture and provide innovative solution to customers.

We are looking for a Principal Program Manager (People Manager) to join the team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical projects from requirements through launch, including managing complex project schedules, removing roadblocks and keeping processes running smoothly.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to define, prioritize, and implement features, infrastructure, processes, and workflows.
• Create and operationalize processes to transform the effectiveness of the organization with respect to meeting business goals.
• Coach, enable, and grow Program Managers within the team and our partners.
• Align key stakeholders, and manage projects through milestones to completion on schedule and in budget.
• Communicate and present program plans and status with management.
• Monitor and measure engineering impact and performance results by tracking key performance indicators.

Qualifications:

Required Qualfications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
• • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience with hardware, firmware & software (system & application stack) interfaces across all modules in a system.
• 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 Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• 10+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Knowledge of high-volume server design and manufacturing is desired.
• Knowledge about datacenters & operation at scale.

Technical Program Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $202,800 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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