Microsoft’s MS Digital team has a unique leadership opportunity in our Enterprise Systems & Infrastructure Venture Integration team. We are seeking a seasoned technical principal program manager to manage the Microsoft, Enterprise Systems & Infrastructure Venture Integration (MEVI) team. The MEVI team focuses on integrating newly acquired companies into Microsoft’s Core IT technologies and services seamlessly. We coordinate across various Microsoft groups and acquired company leadership to ensure smooth transitions, leveraging diverse perspectives and institutional knowledge to drive success.

We are hiring a Principal Group PM (Product Manager) Manager leader to work with highly motivated and talented professionals to lead and execute the work needed to ensure acquired companies are successfully integrated into Microsoft. This is a unique opportunity to use your technical leadership skills and experience cross organizationally and directly affect the future of Microsoft’s growth curve. In this position, you will be part of a fun-loving, diverse team that seeks challenges, loves learning and values teamwork. You will collaborate with team members and partners to build high-quality and innovative integration strategies and solutions using the latest Microsoft and third-party technologies in a dynamic and agile environment and have opportunities to anticipate future technical needs of the team and provide technical leadership to keep raising the bar for delivery satisfaction by reducing friction. You will set the standard for delivery excellence, make data-driven decisions, and tackle complex technical and business challenges. Successful candidates will exhibit collaboration, customer focus, drive for results, technical excellence, and leadership.

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

As the Principal Program Management leader, you will be responsible for the following:

• Maintain and lead a world-class technical program management team across a portfolio of acquisitions/ divestitures at any given time.
• Vision: Understand our customers and various stakeholders to build a vision on creating insights/ integration strategies and solutions/ services to and deliver quantifiable impact.
• Technical Strategy & Plans – Lead efforts to define technical strategies, integration roadmaps and plans and more importantly, deliver tactically against that same strategy. Ability to be highly agile, experiment, yet still accomplish long-term vision and short-term goals.
• Technology Roadmap - Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups spanning all organizational levels to future technical roadmaps. Influencing and leading a high-functioning PM and development teams responsible for critical-path services and tools.
• Customer Focus and partnership: Communicate effectively and build relationships with our partner teams to understand their scenarios and priorities and translate them to requirements for integration strategies and services. Partner effectively with functional leader counterparts in engineering, PM & Design and outside of our team (Acquiring Product Engineering, Digital, Commerce, HR, Finance, Go To Market, Real Estate, Security, etc) to ensure ongoing alignment, engineering dependencies, and influence the building of solutions within other groups.
• Hands on - Embracing an adaptable and flexible organizational culture and thrives in our fast paced and evolving technology, finding solutions to hard problems at scale and operationalizing them.
• Embody our Culture and Values
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in Mergers & Acquisitions IT.
• 8+ years of experience supporting the delivery of high scale enterprise solutions in networking, identity services, collaborative services (email, document sharing, remote meeting and chat), CRM, ERP, Commerce and professional services systems.
  

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

• Customer obsession: Real day-to-day IT systems and services-facing experience and end user empathy. Real-world smart, logical program manager and able to learn new areas quickly and operate in a matrixed environment.
• Communication and collaboration: Executive presence and business acumen to win the hearts and minds of technical and business leaders. Ability to generate trust, build alliances across the organization, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of the acquiring business, the acquired business, and related employees.
• Visionary: Ability to shape our long-term strategy and technology choices across the full technology and services stack. Thought leader with a proven track record of bringing structure to ambiguous business problems and use data, logic, and practical experience to decompose them into straightforward, scalable solutions.
• Problem-solver: Problem-solving ranging from conceptualization to implementation. Ability to communicate ideas effectively with executives and engineering teams. Must be able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving environment. Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical prowess and project management: Ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment. Experience in IT back-office technology, services and tools, and deep learning in industry. Record of delivery in industry.
  
  

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 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 October 9, 2024.

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