Principal PM Manager

Are you interested in learning and driving the growth of new clouds at Microsoft? Are you looking for unlimited growth opportunities? Does creating, shaping, and growing a new kind of cloud from the ground up excite you? Do you have a passion for technology and an obsession for organization? Does strategic, global impact get you excited?
Microsoft is building Azure to be world’s computer to tackle the hardest problems on the planet. Core to the success of this mission is that every customer, in every industry can adopt Azure to further their mission. The Azure Global Expansion Team is at the center of this mission, building hyperscale cloud infrastructure around the world to support commercial industry and government adopt cloud for their most complex workloads.

Azure is seeking a talented, highly motivated leader to drive scalable systems that improve margin, quality, and delivery of sovereign clouds for government customers. This individual will work closely with software engineering peers, operations, and Azure Leadership to drive the engineering of solutions and technology.
This position will be responsible for:
1. Driving a consistent product design across Microsoft and Azure for sovereign clouds for hundreds of engineering teams
2. Building processes and systems to collaborate and inform on these designs
3. Improve and iterate on the designs as they’re put into use
You’ll have a team of senior folks to lead as you drive this vision.
This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your strong understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or technical approaches to further develop and evolve the cloud deployment and operations strategy for Azure.ResponsibilitiesAs a Principal PM Manager, you will be responsible for being an expert in how we build and operate sovereign clouds, work with stakeholders to understand their needs, and help define the technical roadmap to ensure our future service meets those needs. Turn problems of today into features of tomorrow.
As a part of a growing team, your responsibilities will include:

Product Strategy: You will be a part of a team focused on understanding customer needs and turning those needs in to capabilities, tools, and processes for our cloud.
Architecture: You will help mature the cloud architecture, identify opportunities for design optimization, and ensuring our cloud is positioned to scale. You be taking the existing cloud architecture, aligning it with customer requirements then help make prioritization decisions that have the most impact for our business model.
Communications: You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining regular communications about the status of our product and upcoming developments. In addition, you will be able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.

Team Collaboration: You will inspire and work with a talented and diverse group of PMs, Developers, and internal teams that rely on our services to be successful.
Collaboration: Great collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft.
Cultural Leadership: Ability and passion to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusion.QualificationsBasic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of software development and/or product management with a strong track record of shipping products and services
  
• 3+ years' experience managing an engineering or program/project/product management team
• Demonstrated experience in planning, cross-group collaboration, communications, analytical capabilities and attention to detail
  
• Passion and proven record for execution with measurable results; focus on delivering impact.
  
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
  
• Ability to work successfully across a complex, highly-matrixed environment
  
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity
  
• Demonstrated strong capability in verbal and written communications skills across a geographically dispersed audience

Preferred Qualifications / Skills:

• Problem solver.
• Executive presence with demonstrated deep engagement with senior level customers and decision makers.
• Be able to ramp quickly to understand and solve complex problems. This might be integration of technologies or environmental issues that are blocking a scenario for a customer.
• Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services.
• Good experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
• Ability to leverage telemetry and diagnostics to derive insights that add value to our operations.
• Examples of bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
• Excellent Communication Skills and Situational Awareness. You will be working closely with other product group people across Microsoft (Directors, Group Managers etc.) you will also work closely with customer leadership, engineers, and system administrators. You will have to be able to adjust your approach to the specific audience

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:

• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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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