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Microsoft Corporation Principal Technical Program Manager in Redmond, Washington
Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.
Cloud Manufacturing Operations and Fulfillment (CMOF) organization within CSCP manages business operations performance and supplies hardware to the data centers. Well-defined and executed supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.
Within the CMOF organization, the Readiness Engineering & Sovereign (RE&S) organization plays a key role in the pre-dock readiness and First Footprint execution across GPU, Compute, Storage, as well as end-to-end Sovereign execution across CSCP. The role of Principal Technical Program Manager will be responsible for driving strategic cross-functional transformations and business initiatives across the RE&S organization. You will be leveraging your experience in the domain to deliver cloud capacity to our customers. The primary focus will be on deployment strategies, process improvements, operational excellence and engineering solutions that enable us to scale with predictability.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Provide thought leadership for the end-to-end Readiness Engineering function to drive faster time to market across multiple resource types and capacity expansion scenarios
Identify business and technology transformation opportunities to drive increased efficiency and predictability in readiness engineering
Definition of multi- year operations maturity roadmaps enabled through related solution/engineering roadmaps and delivery commitments.
Provide guidance when working with Software and Hardware Engineering to design and integrated readiness solutions to crucial technical needs for multiple feature areas
Partner with key organizations across Engineering, Planning, Sourcing and NPI to drive end-to-end improvements
Drive capacity delivery with focus on speed and predictability
Create, manage and govern key strategic partnerships across the Cloud business between supply chain management, data center teams and engineering teams to drive the necessary orchestration and integration
Lead roadmap discussions and business reviews at operational and executive levels through presentations and effective communications.
Mentor talent in the organization and contribute to the growth of organizational capability.
Participate in interviewing, developing and managing talent.
Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
4+ years people management experience.
3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Other Requirements
- The ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are needed for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screening: Microsoft Cloud Background Check - requirement to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check is needed upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
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.
4+ years people management experience.
1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with key stakeholders: Engineering, Operations, Planning and Deployment functions
10+ years in technical program management and/or operations management in the Enterprise Cloud/Hitech domain
Experience in leading large-scale programs, and a proven track record of successfully setting up and executing technology/supply chain operational processes ideally in the data center/server deployment domain
Ability to lead in ambiguous situations, and deal effectively with conflicting priorities and changes with nfluencing skills and ability to build relationships across multiple layers in the organization
Proficient with performance analytics, and able to generate quality outputs for an executive audience
Experience in technical operations deployments and working with engineering organizations across a large technology enterprise
Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 will accept applications for the role until July 1, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .