Senior Technical Program Manager - Hardware Technology Engineering

The Senior Technical Program Manager - Hardware Technology Engineering is responsible for driving technology roadmap for AI and cloud infrastructure across both the hardware team and the Datacenters. They will work on scaling new innovations planning test and reliability roadmap as well as server and data center vendors, they will also work SMEs and technologist ensuring to solve challenges to help the technology portfolio continue to progress.

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In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering (Electrical or Computer or Mechanical), product/technical program management, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 4+ years experience in systems technology from the chip to the datacenter environment
• 4+ years experience in working and collaborating between hardware and datacenter infrastructure teams at large scale
• 4+ years experience in building technology roadmap from incubation to scale execution

Other Requirements:

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:

• 10 years of professional experience with hardware, data center, program management engineering, new product introduction, driving requirements, managing schedules, identifying, managing and mitigating risks.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, assess opportunities and develop principles to prioritize multiple strategic and tactical options, and drive issues to closure with a high bar on quality
• Proven ability to work and collaborate with a wide range of business stakeholders to achieve results and impact

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Responsibilities:

• Drive and own technology roadmap, adaptation, unlock scale
• Define and drive testing, reliability, performance OKRs and roadmap challenges and solve them
• Data driven reports, studies, and projects
• Be an expert with hardware, server, data center cooling, liquid cooling, cryogenics, power and network concepts of innovations, and sustainability for the cloud
• Be very familiar with cloud technology and business including vertical integration knowledge of Software/chips/server/data center/ sustainability
• Able to navigate organizations and build partnerships, trust, and collaborations
• Able to grasp deep level engineering concepts and technologies and Convery them in simpler business-related terms up the chain
• Able to establish strategic planning that spans:
  • Multiple programs, technologies, and disciplines
  • Communicate and structure, milestones, commitments, budget, project, fiscal year planning
  • Able to work with SMEs and extract the essence and impact and convey it up the chain
• Work closely with SMEs and help drive technological inanities from small programs to larger initiatives, this includes:
  • Early incubation planning and budgeting
  • Defining what success looks like
  • Defining the whys and business impact
  • Finding and reaching out to partners
  • Arranging/planning roadshows
  • Planning of next stages
  • Managing and planning Tactful knowledge and ownership transfers
• Building a team portfolio by augmenting the technology roadmaps to be impactful and fluent
• Ability to build detailed and high level slides conveying different technology projects in a professional and high quality structure. Audiences will include SMEs and execs
• Establishing cadence (weekly/monthly) to track team progress and early locating issues before they arise
• Coordinates with both the internal account manager and client-side project manager to plan and execute all project activities.
• Remains cognizant of multiple concurrent projects, continually prioritizing activities by importance, deadlines, status, and dependencies. Maintains effective time management skills on a daily basis, ensuring all project plans are up to date, and ensures communication is made to the appropriate people.
• Schedules and attends project-related meetings and provides agendas and meeting notes as needed.
• Other
  • • Embody our Culture and Values