Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?
Join our Hardware Strategy and Planning (HSP) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.
Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.
The HSP organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. Well-defined and executed strategic planning ensures products meet the requirements for performance, features, and time-to-market. The ability to draw insights from a deep understanding of the cloud HW Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions.
As a Director of Product Management- Storage, Strategy and Planning, you will drive engagement with technology providers, understand their product portfolio and roadmap, work with internal partners and strategize how 1st and 3rd part technology solutions intercept Azure hardware infrastructure roadmap. The role will involve driving requirements with technology providers that enable the growth of the Azure cloud business and give it a competitive edge over other cloud service providers.
Join our HSP team and be a part of the world’s fastest growing cloud service!
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in Central processing unit , Memory, or Storage technology development.
- 7+ years of experience in cloud datacenter architecture
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- Deep technical understanding of commodity storage technologies and knowledgeable on storage industry trends
- Deep technical understanding of server architecture, design, and development, with emphasis on power and performance analysis
- Proven customer obsession in prior roles where customer requirements were gathered and implemented into a product.
- Product Planning, Project Management, Product Management experience.
- Proven capabilities to drive positive business results by working across multiple organizations.
- Experience working in hardware Infrastructure Engineering Groups
- Ability to build relationships and influence in a matrix organization.
- Highly effective written and oral communication skills with proven ability to present to a wide range of cross-functional partners across different teams and levels of the organization.
- Familiarity and previous experience developing programs through phase gate process
Product 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
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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Responsibilities:
- Collaborate and drive efforts across multiple engineering groups (business units) within Microsoft and external technology providers and organizations; success will be achieved by collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet or exceeding business unit requirements with technical solutions, as well as developing and putting in place processes and methods that bring about efficient collaboration and decision making within Microsoft and Azure.
- Collaborate with 1 st and 3 rd party technology providers, understand their portfolios, partner with internal stakeholders in engineering and business groups and drive a competitive and executable storage hardware roadmap strategy for Azure hardware infrastructure.
- Deep dive into storage technology and Infrastructure offerings and trends, quantitatively compare various offerings and develop recommendations and strategy that give a unique edge to Azure hardware infrastructure.
- Perform roadmap scenario modeling, financial modeling, and market analysis for the recommended storage HW platform factoring in performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs.
- Drive internal alignment on storage hardware technology platform plan of record.
- Recommend internal and external process improvements and excellence conversations cross functionally to ensure we have optimized processes and aligned across partner teams.
- Create, maintain, and effectively disseminate project communication to stakeholders.