Overview
Microsoft IT is for those IT professionals and business technology professionals who want to be strategic partners to the business and be the first place to create innovative solutions using all of Microsoft’s products and services. Microsoft IT provides career growth opportunities, a rewarding and flexible work environment so you can better integrate professional and personal life. Inspiring what’s next, Microsoft IT employees make global impact on thousands of customers and thousands of employees who use Microsoft software and services. We are IT. And we’re kind of a big deal.
Are you passionate about understanding Microsoft’s most challenging business problems and delivering effective and appropriate system solutions? Do mission critical, big challenges with high visibility energize you? Do you want to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented, customer-obsessed environment? If so, consider becoming a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft IT. Microsoft is transitioning to a cloud first and mobile first world.
Microsoft IT is at the forefront of creating innovative solutions aligning to this strategy on a global scale for Microsoft’s customer and partners, as well as our employees. We have an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Program Manager who is passionate about managing and developing strategic and tactical solutions that span the breadth of Microsoft’s business.
We are looking for an exceptional, experienced Program Manager to put their endless creativity to work leveraging agile, continuous delivery practices providing state of the art solutions. This position requires extensive cross-organization collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with end users and business stakeholders identifying requirements and transforming them into functional design for software engineering development. This includes end-to-end planning, designing, scoping, managing and delivering key capabilities for Microsoft systems. In this role, you will be a leader of delivery, strategy and direction. Your outside-in viewpoint, excellence in strategic thinking, driving for results, operational excellence, cross-division collaboration, and executive maturity skillset will be critical to your success; as you identify trade-offs, work across disciplines and divisions, balance tactical and strategic initiatives, drive decisions, present to executives, work with partners, and get your hands dirty with direct operational experience. This ideal candidate should have extensive experience delivering and coordinating large enterprise-scale projects using software engineering best practices such as project scheduling, scenario and requirement definition, functional design, resourcing, issue/risk management, cross-division coordination and project and organization change management. In addition, this position requires an individual comfortable serving as the overall advocate for solution design and a leader of the program management discipline.
REQUIREMENTS:
– Exceptional leadership acumen, with natural drive to lead by example
– Strong executive maturity, integrity and judgment
– Strong leadership skills
– Excellent communication skills at all organization levels
– Deep passion for satisfying customer needs and achieving high user and business partner satisfaction, influencing decisions for the right solutions and balancing priorities across customer, business and technical needs
– A proven track record of successful results-oriented, solution and project definition and delivery – Successful experience leading delivery of solutions across multiple teams and complex integrated ecosystems and dependencies, comprising an end-to-end solution
– Successful experience defining scenarios and requirements, and design solutions in a streamlined, agile fashion incorporating quality in use principles
– Able to develop feature roadmaps to enable future business capabilities
– Ability to manage and report on project financials, ensuring fiscal accountability is maintained
QUALIFICATIONS:
– Proven track record of delivering secure, high quality solutions on-time and on budget
– Strong computer science foundation
– Outstanding problem solving skills and passion to solve hard problems
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related sciences required
– Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related sciences preferred
– 10-12+ years of work experience as a Program, Product, Solution or Project Manager
PREFERRED, NOT REQUIRED:
– IT Operations experience
– Process Engineering experience
– Client focused change management experience
– Experience developing and managing complex technical solutions from a lifecycle perspective
About Microsoft
At Microsoft, we aim to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more — and we empower our employees the same way.
Everyone who works here has the power to build on. Those two little words show the way we think. They’re a challenge to go beyond what’s thought possible, and they’re how we help billions of people use technology to get more out of each day.
We build on the work of others and invite them to build onto ours, always striving for ways to make great ideas even better.
What can you build on?
Here at Microsoft, you’ll build on your curiosity, your passions and your drive to make a difference.
You’ll have access to world-class tools, some of the industry’s brightest minds and a nearly infinite range of opportunities across a truly global organization. You’ll have the opportunity to build on the company’s wide-ranging accomplishments to do something even more incredible.
You’ll have the freedom to collaborate, explore, set your own rules and take your career wherever you want it to go.
Feel the inspiration that comes from working with wildly talented people and the rush that comes from doing work that makes a lasting impact. Recent projects like HoloLens provide just a glimpse of the remarkable things we will accomplish.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our team. Come build on Microsoft’s far-reaching momentum. Build on your career. Build on what we do and how we do it.