Sr Public Relations Manager – MICO

Do you have what it takes to design and execute leading-edge communication programs for some of the most profitable and important enterprise businesses at Microsoft? Have a passion for technology, communications and “influencing the influencers” in today’s constantly evolving new media environment? If so - we want to talk with you!

The Commercial Communications team is looking for a PR manager to drive the communications agenda for Cloud + Enterprise and Developer business.   In this role you will have the unique opportunity to create and execute a communications strategy for Microsoft’s global datacenter portfolio that positively shifts the perceptions of consumers, technologists, business audiences and policy makers.  

The position will focus primarily on PR strategies and tactics but will also create and manage direct to customer and field facing materials.

Additional details on specific areas of responsibility are included below. However, we are a small, agile team that needs candidates who thrive on change, embrace new things and take on new responsibilities.   Net, the nature of the job and associated duties can and will vary over time.

In this role you will:

Create and execute a communications strategy for Microsoft’s global datacenter portfolio, including:

End to end announce strategy from ground breaking to deprecation of physical datacenter facilities

End to end announce strategy for regional commercial cloud service announcements (Office 365, Azure and Dynamics)

Partnering with consumer cloud service teams on regional service announcements

Provide subject matter expertise and counsel on all Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Organization related communications issues.

Partner with engineering, marketing and field teams on datacenter communication planning and execution

Develop and maintain content, messaging and positioning guidance in support of our global datacenter portfolio and the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Organization

Partner with and manage external agency resources

Skills and Experiences we are looking for:

Undergraduate Degree in Communications, Marketing or Information

Technology

5-6 years of PR and marketing communications experience

Broad marketing, digital marketing or communications program design experience preferred

Experience with cloud services, datacenters, datacenter communications and/or issues management for information technology companies

Experience marketing to IT, developer, business or start-up audiences

Additional experience in field, sales or technical roles is a plus

Excellent communications, writing and project management skills

Integrated marketing, messaging and positioning proficiency.

Candidates should have a proven track record of cross-group collaboration, the ability to influence corporate and field teams at multiple levels of the organization, and business maturity.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Program Manager II

Are you passionate about the mobile app experiences?   We’re a startup team focused on the customer and passionate about shipping high quality, engaging and yet highly trustworthy customer experiences..

We are looking for PM with a ‘can-do’ mindset, great interpersonal skills, and strong technical background in operating system security, malware detection, threat analysis, and an understanding of mobile apps and developers. As a technical PM, you'll need to use a data driven approach to understand the customer security needs, go deep technically and help the team make the right decisions and deliver in face of ambiguities. You will need to learn fast, mentor people around you about your area, a good decision maker and excellent at cross group communication.

If you have experience and expertise in   app development or OS internals come talk to us.

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United States of America: Campaign Manager - #Showyourselfie Campaign

The Global Poverty Project and United Nations Population Fund's new global campaign, #Showyourselfie, is growing fast internationally. As such, we are looking for a talented, driven and passionate Campaign Manager to elevate the campaign to scale across 2015. The position is a consultancy for a period of ten months.

About #Showyourselfie:

Showyourselfie, a campaign by the United Nations Population Fund and Global Poverty Project, is a visual petition to ensure that the rights and needs of adolescents and youth (age 10 - 24) are strongly included in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

The campaign is mobilizing young people around the world to submit their selfie as a personal signature and demonstrate visible support for youth. #Showyourselfie will present the largest ever visual handover to Member States at the UN General Assembly in September 2015 and call for bigger and better investment in young people's rights and needs at the national and global level.

Responsibilities

The Campaign Manager for #Showyourselfie will be responsible for driving a global partnership, marketing and social media driven campaign to ensure that the rights and needs of adolescents and youth are at the center of the Post-2015 development agenda. The campaign, launched in August 2014, on International Youth Day, aims to develop the largest ever visual petition to hand over to world leaders at the UN General Assembly in September 2015. The visual petition aims to ensure that governments will adequately invest in the rights and needs of young people. The Campaign Manager will be responsible for driving all elements of the campaign including high-level partner engagement, strategic activation, marketing and media.

This is a full-time 10-month position starting in January 2015 and ending in October 2015. The role will be based at the UNFPA headquarters in New York City, with 2 days being spent at the Global Poverty Project headquarters.

Responsibilities include:

Acting as key liaison between UNFPA and GPP staff as related to the campaignDriving marketing and media strategy – online and offlineSecuring and managing partners across sectorsPrivate sectorNGO/CSOEntertainment and musicAmplification partners – including in Global SouthInnovationCreative agenciesDigital

Additionally, the Campaign Manager will oversee:

Campaign websiteRelationships with media, digital and creative partnersBranding and design of campaigning materialsIssue campaign development on 6 key issuesDesignProductionRoll-outTimelinesSocial media – oversight and managementHigh-level support, event and creative management for photo handover at United Nations General Assembly in September 2015

The Campaign Manager will work with the Global Poverty Project team, a full time Campaign Associate for day-to-day activities and a team of five at UNFPA to provide guidance as related to engagement of UNFPA offices globally.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

5-7 years of relevant campaigning experienceStrong leadership and project management skills and experienceProven success in delivering a high-profile global cause-driven campaign across multiple platformsExperience and familiarity with current international development issuesSignificant past experience in relationship and coalition buildingUnderstanding of grassroots & high-level global campaigningExcellent written and verbal communication skillsOrganisational skills and a strong attention to detailProfessional and able to interact successfully and manage range of individualsComfortable defending ideas and thinking on your feetUnderstanding of international development & policy landscape, including UN politicsCreative thinking & entrepreneurial attitudeKnowledge of international media landscape (national and international)Solution-driven and ability to proactively spot and solve issues.Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.Friendly, flexible, confident and assertive personalitySense of humor

Desirable

Experience of working with a UN agencyUnderstanding of digital marketing and global youth market

Other:

Campaign Manager's time will be split between UNFPA's office (3 days per week)and GPP's office (2) days a weekApplications are accepted on a rolling basisReports to both GPP and UNFPAMust be able to make a 10 month commitment

Location

Details

Full time for a period of ten monthsSalary commensurate with experience

About the Global Poverty Project:

Our vision is a world without extreme poverty by 2030. The Global Poverty Project's mission is to grow the number and effectiveness of Global Citizens to achieve the public, business and political commitment and action to end extreme poverty by 2030. We campaign for government, business and consumer action that will create important systemic change for the world's extreme poor, and build a movement that engages and educates people, and supports them to take simple but effective individual actions for change.

About the United Nations Population Fund:

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA expands the possibilities for women and young people to lead healthy and productive lives. We work in about 150 countries that are home to 80 per cent of the world's population. In these countries, the Fund is a catalyst for progress. Working with governments and through partnerships with other UN agencies, civil society and the private sector, we make a real difference in the lives of millions of people, especially those who are most vulnerable. www.unfpa.org

How to Apply:

Please send a CV and a cover letter tohr_us@globalpovertyproject.com.

Please use "Campaign Manager, #Showyourselfie" as the subject line.

Due to the high volume of applications, we can only contact shortlisted candidates.

Regional Campaign Manager

Regional Campaign Manager

Windows is on the threshold of its next step forward with Windows 10.   A big part of this next step is innovation in helping Windows customers discover and experience apps, games and content created by developers and publishers through the Windows Store.   We’ve started that journey, are growing, and looking for passionate professionals who want to create, market and run this new experience with us.

We are looking to hire highly analytical and customer oriented digital marketing professionals with deep regional expertise and cultural insights.   In this role, you will help operate a world-class consumer service by assessing potential digital marketing campaigns against our quality and local relevancy standards, and approving their distribution to defined customer segments within a group of priority markets.   You will monitor and analyze campaign performance across a number of distribution channels and be accountable for any distribution changes needed to achieve a clear set of business objectives.

As a qualified candidate you will need to demonstrate:

1) Familiarity with Microsoft’s broad portfolio of consumer products

2) Keen appreciation and passion for the power and possibilities of mobile applications

3) Strong desire to create consumer delight by building and managing consumer services

4) Quantitative analysis skills and qualitative judgment to make the right decisions

5) Exceptional management skills allowing you to track, measure and improve both your work, and that of others on your team

6) Outstanding interpersonal skills and work habits allowing you to deliver results  

7) Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing and prioritizing multiple tasks while meeting deadlines under pressure

8) Proven ability to collect and synthesize inputs from multiple sources, both inside and outside the team

9) Professional experience defining and executing consumer marketing with a combination of mobile, online and digital products

10) Great proficiency with data analysis and collaboration tools like Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and web-based tool sets

Professional Qualifications:   The preferred candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and 5 plus years of experience in online/mobile retail operations or digital advertising with leading global firms leveraging data-driven marketing.   Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English are required. Business-level fluency in non-English language(s) strongly preferred with a specific emphasis on French, German, Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and Japanese.

MBA from top tier program preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior Program Manager

Microsoft is on a mission to revamp its Digital Store to be a one stop shop for all the company has to offer for its platforms. We’re taking a huge step forward in opening new opportunities for our end users and developers alike and are looking for a passionate, self-driven and technically strong PM to help make this reality.

You will be responsible for shaping the Developer and End User experiences around the Store ecosystem by owning key pieces of the App onboarding and Certification services. This system is essential for detecting abuse and enforcing Store policies around security, content and variety of other technical standards. It is key to maintaining and enhancing the overall perceived quality and trustworthiness of Store in the eyes of the end Users. You will work closely with partner teams in Windows Developer Platform, Developer Division, other Abuse detection teams and rest of Store to deliver on the upcoming release and the ongoing system enhancements.

Required qualifications include:

- 5+ years of program management experience in a product team defining and shipping software/services

- Excellent core program management skills

- Experience collaborating and negotiating with other teams

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- Demonstrated track record of helping others and being a great team player

- Preferred: Experience with scalable services

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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IT Service Engineering Manager

People all over the world use Yammer to communicate and collaborate openly with their coworkers. This makes workplaces more effective and makes employees happier and more engaged. We know this for a fact, because we’re not only building Yammer; we’re using it every day to do our jobs. We need people who are enthusiastic, who ask great questions, and who have strong opinions (but aren’t afraid to admit when they’re wrong).

Yammer IT is a global department that covers our offices in both San Francisco and London. Spanning two cities on opposite sides of the ocean, we nonetheless work closely together on projects and have a follow-the-sun support structure. As individuals we span a wide variety of expertise, and cover a wide variety of tasks.

Our team is looking for people who have a love for the work we do, complimented by a strong customer service oriented attitude. We're a tight-knit team in charge of a wide spread of resources, so your excellent problem solving skills and ability to work well within a team environment will be crucial to your—and our—success.

We have a great opportunity to join our SF based team as a local IT leader reporting to the Global IT Director.

No day is ever the same in Yammer IT.

What we want you to do:

Providing feedback on the local IT team to Global IT Director

Providing guidance and mentorship on projects.

Oversee day-to-day operations and thorough completion of projects.

Encourage IT-wide discussion on future projects and maintain engagement among staff.

Continue to administer Core Responsibilities.

Broadcasting IT-related information that impact Yammer groups.

Become the local representation for IT in the SF office.

Collaborating with Global IT Director in crafting weekly meeting agendas.

Identify, define, and develop IT roadmap and vision.

Effectively staff resources onto projects to encourage efficacy and team growth.

Acting as liaison for Yammer IT to the larger Microsoft community.

Collaborating with Yammer teams to define and develop IT solutions to their pain points.

Involved in Yammer IT hiring decisions.

Managerial tasks, including one: ones and Connect generation and submissions, input in people advancement discussions.

Building relationships with MSFT IT and supporting the Non Windows support model through use of our SW and services.

What we'd like you to have:

3-5 years management experience working in a corporate environment

Casper Experience

Lync phone system experience

Experience with Mac OS X, in particular within Active Directory environments

Experience with efficiently supporting systems that support hundreds of desktops users

Knowledge of LDAP, including Open Directory and Active Directory

Expert knowledge of Mac OS

What we use:

Operating Systems: Mac OSX, *NIX, Windows 8/Server 2012

Casper Mac Management tool

JIRA

Office 365

Open LDAP

Aruba Wireless

Dell

HyperV

KVM

ESXI

GITHub

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. The Yammer team has folks from a variety of backgrounds, races, ethnicities, previous work histories, and life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. The Yammer product is used by all kinds of people, so that diversity of experiences is critical to how we develop. We believe in sane work hours, using our vacation time, learning on the job, and offer paid parental leave.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Sr. PR Manager

Summary

The senior PR manager for Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health is responsible for owning communications plan development and execution against activities related to Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health. This would include depth media engagement, telling a broad cross-audience story around the key differentiators associated with the Microsoft Band and the value of the Microsoft Health platform. The role will require gaining a deep technical understanding of the product and developing core communications materials. This role will be responsible for fostering a close partnership with the product marketing and engineering teams, as well as partnering and developing materials that can be used in partnership with local subsidiaries. In the event of a product crisis, this person will be responsible for driving a response plan, partnering closely with engineering, legal and marketing teams.

Responsibilities and Deliverables

  Develops and executes against communications plan of record for Microsoft Band & Microsoft Health

  Drafts press releases, blog posts, product messaging, reactive statements and advisories

  Delivers toolkits/assets for launch and sustenance to support in-country communications

  Oversees PR event planning and logistics related to Microsoft Band & Microsoft Health

  Develops crisis communications plans as needed

  Partners closely with marketing and engineering in communications development and plan execution

Qualifications

  Strong writing, communications planning and storytelling skills

  Technical expertise and the ability to conduct product demos

  Ability to influence under stressful situations and rapid deadlines

  Event management expertise

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior PR Manager role

Do you thrive under pressure? See opportunity in a crisis? Feel confident in your ability to influence broad groups of people and make decisions to achieve the right outcome? If so, a senior public relations manager on Microsoft’s Reactive Communications team may be the fast-moving media strategy and communications position just for you.  

Your work directly influences the trust and favorability customers have of Microsoft, and the reputation of our products and services for customers.

As a member of a world-class communications group, your work will be focused on setting context quickly for customers and the media during situations that require, and benefit from, timely communications. Issues present in the position range across a wide spectrum of products, services and topics, globally.   There is also a level of engagement in the role, centered on advising co-workers on strategies to avoid problems altogether, or mitigate during situations to avoid inadvertently creating issues unnecessarily.  

The Senior PR Manager role will create and adapt as needed, coordinated communications ready for use in a variety of channels. The position requires effective communications experience with social and digital media, consumer and business press, as well as a proven track record of collaboration across a number of internal teams and subject matter experts, as well as experience communicating with senior executives.  

Senior PR Managers are responsible for:

  Defining and executing on communications strategies for issues that have significant corporate and/or product brand impact.

  Counseling communications group partners on response best practices to avoid potential pitfalls. This type of preventative consultation is the “proactive” avoidance expertise inherent in “reactive” issues management.

  Partnering with communications groups across Microsoft to develop and mature response communications processes and procedures.

  Providing executive communications and analysis to leaders and various stakeholders across the company during the lifecycle of the issue.

Key areas of experience and competency include:

  Sound problem identification, judgment, resolution and decision-making skills often in ambiguous situations.

  Excellent written communication skills, maintained to a high standard during times of extreme time-pressure.

  An ability to assess the severity and priority of multiple incoming inquiries from press, customers and internal employees.

  Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and to work effectively with executives.

  Broad cross-company interaction requiring excellent communication skills.   Technical writing background a plus.

  Demonstrated capacity to lead others collaboratively, under pressure, to reach cross group consensus in short periods of time.

  Experience working in the information technology industry or a similar industry, where the ability to understand complicated technologies and intersections is a regular requirement.  

  The ability to grasp the dynamics of an issue, creatively think through possible approaches and articulate the way in which a situation can be explained and contextualized for various audiences.

The successful candidate will have at least 7-10 years of public relations, communications and/or product marketing and product management experience, coupled with a deep understanding of media relations and success in dealing with complex, strategic, customer communications challenges. A B.A in Communications or B.S. degree in Computer Science or similar field is preferred. Experience authoring or managing content for IT or security professionals is a plus. This role requires responding to intermittent and unexpected issues that may occur and result in work activity occurring outside the hours of 8am - 6pm.

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in these positions. The actual duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may vary.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Deputy Manager

Deputy Manager – Branded Restaurant

This company have a very strong presence on the high street and exciting times are ahead, as they invest highly in their brand development and sites throughout the UK!  They support all of their mangers through comprehensive L&D plans and are always looking to develop talent for the future succession.

Deputy Manager / Assistant Manager

We are seeking a talented and hungry Deputy Manager / Assistant Manager who is seeking career development within a fast paced restaurant environment. We are seeking an individual who wants to develop and progress within a training timescale to become ‘The Best General Manager ‘. This company believes in internal progression, they are a very unique and working with them is a culture, so much more than a job!

Deputy Manager / Assistant Manager

- You will help build a fun working environment and support the team to achieve profitable sales and delight customers with excellent service.
- The ideal applicant will have a flair for restaurants, pubs, catering or retailing as well as a proven record in developing sales and achieving KPI’s coupled with a love of food and a passion for the business.
- You need to be an expert in your field, driven by customer service excellence, have confident presentation skills and strong attention to detail.
- You will have commercial acumen and be driven by success and maximising all opportunities within the business as a Deputy Manager or Assistant Manager.

About us...

We have been established since 2005 and are known for our ability to provide results. We represent people with talent and ambition and those that can make a difference to your business and businesses that can make a difference to your career!

Limitless opportunities…

If the role advertised isn’t exactly what you are looking for but you are experienced in Retail Management, Fashion, Buying, Merchandising, E-Commerce, Marketing or Hospitality Management then get in touch as we will have additional jobs in leading retail and hospitality brands that could be right up your street...

DISCOVER where our talent can take you...

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Sr. Project Manager

Microsoft Consulting Services is looking for a Services Project Manager (PjM) who will support the Department of Defense, Air Force Consulting Practice.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of a four year degree in management, business, engineering, or information technology and/or 7+ years of demonstrated corporate MIS experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Candidates must have excellent organization, communication, Project Management, negotiation and problem solving skills, and a proven understanding of corporate account business needs and knowledge of support industry. The role requires both deep project management experience in a consulting organization, and broad technology knowledge with the ability to facilitate the architecting of solutions by mapping common customer business problems to reusable end-to-end technology solutions. Demonstrated ability to engage in senior level business and technology decision maker discussions related to agility, business value, and end to end technology projects is also a must. PjM’s are key enablers for other consultants and partner staff. They manage the complete lifecycle of large and complex projects. PjM’s have a passion for the customer which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.

The PjM applies solid project management and leadership skills and experience in delivering projects on-time, within budget, and with high customer. The PjM helps customer account teams identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities while continually driving add-on business within existing accounts. To accomplish this, PjM’s must be effective in fostering executive level relationships. PjM’s help translate business requirements into technology requirements for inclusion in contracts and/or statements of work (SOW). In some cases PjM’s will also assist in contract negotiations and engagement management.

PjM’s play a key role in employing and developing partners as part of the overall Microsoft services delivery model. PjM’s maintain product group relationships and may act as subject matter experts assisting service line management in definition and development of service and/or solution offerings. They drive technical around project management, particular products, solutions delivery and design best practices and go-to-markets offerings. They are also expected to participate in the mentoring of consultants and partner staff. PjM’s are able to deliver articulate and effective strategic presentations to audiences of all sizes. The PjM must have proven experience managing all aspects of technology projects from conception to production operations and support: scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, customer expectations and satisfaction, team management (cross functional, cross organizational), and partner management. This includes managing multi-phase/multi-dimensional/multi-resource projects to conclusion while maintaining high customer customer satisfaction in a highly matrixed organization. The role requires a technically strong project manager who is resourceful, confident under pressure, and has demonstrated skill in both crisis management and expectation management.

Desired Skills:

- Experience with Project management

- Experience using Microsoft Project to develop WBS and Project schedules

- Project Management Professional (PMP) certified

- Enterprise-scale Office 365 technical deployment and/or project management experience

The successful candidate must be a U.S. Citizen, be required to hold or be able to satisfactorily complete a US Government Security Clearance based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) at the Secret level. The position will require travel to customer sites. The selected candidate must be able to start within 30 days of offer acceptance. Candidate is expected to travel estimated 50-75% or more.

SS:PSS

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior Program Manager

Are you passionate about building cool devices and technologies? The Surface Team focuses on lighting up Microsoft experiences with touch first computing. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want, and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you!

You have experience in both product development and carrier certification and you have demonstrated the ability to deliver solutions with your project management experience.   A track record of proven product launches you have supported.   An ability to manage multiple projects and established rigor against development timeline needs is required.  

Role & Opportunity:

  Key interface with 3rd party vendors to manage and drive multiple highly complex projects which involve key development initiatives.

  Collaborate with co-located and multisite teams in product globalization, customer issue prioritization and resolution, to successfully take the product to global markets.

  Have deep ownership of end to end commitments, interacting with multiple disciplines in the organization.   Closely collaborate with requirements management, key engineering leads from HW, SW and Test to ensure smooth execution of the program.

  Actively manage and clearly communicate schedules, plans and program risks not only to engineering but also executive level audiences.

  Directly contribute to design, development/ integration, unit testing, and debugging across the platform.

  Drive/Lead cross functional teams to generate use cases, technical feasibility analysis to develop and define processes / requirements to ensure compliance with operator requirements.

  Interact with customers and handle product related issues, mobile broadband related tests, support IOT and Field test activities.

  Establish and drive vendor engagement relationships with Surface 3rd party vendors.   Ensure vendor related bugs are driven to resolution, root caused & communicated back to program & customer.  

Qualifications  

  BS degree in EE or CS; MS preferred

  At least 8 years of program and/or product experiences in the wireless industry with proven experience.   Development management experience is a plus

  4-6 years of product development experience, with at least 4 years of combined experience with CDMA, GSM, UMTS, LTE technology

  Demonstrated track record in development and deployment of products and new technologies, as well as process development and execution.

  Demonstrated proficiency with project management tools and techniques

  Demonstrated expertise in Microsoft Office Tools

  Excellent organizational, interpersonal, presentation, oral and written communications skills

  Team-oriented approach with the desire to both teach and learn from others

  Proven ability to build relationships across the organization and work independently

  Excellent judgment and the ability to handle escalated situations.

High enthusiasm towards learning about new technology trends and wireless products

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Program Manager, Senior - 897431

Do you believe that the road to success is having the shortest path between an idea in developers’ mind to the feature in front of the user? Do you believe that anything between the idea and user is just overhead? Then join ASG Platform team! We are looking for an experienced Program Manager, in an individual contributor role, for the Applications Platform team (XAP).

The XAP team plays a key role within the ASG platform, providing multiple tiers of functionality:

- The federation architecture and query processing pipeline which enables queries to be routed to multiple services

- A developer toolkit for partners to build applications that be hosted on XAP

You will be working with a great team of engineers in a fast paced environment, tackling challenging technical problems. Delivering on performance, scalability, and ease of development for our partners are key requirements for our platform. You will be working within our team and with multiple partner teams on design problems, requirements, and developer experience. You will be designing and executing on features that help developers release features several times a day with high quality (monthly releases? That is so 2011). You will be working on features that abstract or remove the complexities for developers that exist in developing at search scale.

Responsibilities:

As we continue to evolve the platform, you will be working with the engineering team to tackle design issues as they relate to improving scalability, providing a reliable and maintainable service, and a great platform for developers to code on. With our partner teams, you will be focused on anticipating their requirements, translating those into features and architectural changes, as well as providing the best possible developer experience for the diverse personas we support in the platform.

Required Skills:

We are looking for someone with strong technical skills who can contribute to design discussions and tackle hard problems. Success in this position will require a broad set of experiences and skills, ranging from excellence in core engineering, ability to deeply engage with customers/partners, and building a collaborative working relationship with the engineering team and partner organizations.

You should possess a strong technical background and an extremely good grasp of software engineering principles, exceptional problem solving and design skills, and multiple years' experience in delivering software solutions in a program management role. You should be self-motivated and self-directed and able to lead and motivate others without direct authority. A demonstrated ability to come up-to-speed quickly on a new technical domain is a key requirement. Exceptional interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment are very important.   Ability to deal with ambiguity and quickly adapting to changes is key for succeeding in this environment.

Requirements:

- Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working on a large scale online serving system that includes developer tools.   Examples of comparable serving systems would be OneDrive APIs, Azure Active Directory, Google App Engine, or Salesforce1 Platform.

- Strong technical platform skills, preferably with large scale distributed computing experience, with the ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep in new focus areas

- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with partners and customers, and translate requirements into a product vision and roadmap

- Strong project management and driving skills, effectively managing project without direct authority and working cross teams

- Proven record of shipping products over multiple releases

- Outstanding design skills and good understanding of code and developer experience

- Experience in the software product cycle, either functioning as a program manager driving features from initial planning, design, to implementation and release, or working as a software developer

- A Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Marketing Manager

Join us to make Windows 10 the best Windows ever. You have a passion for technology, you’re a self-motivated ambitious marketer and you thrive working in a fast paced, frontline, dynamic business. Good news! We’re a perfect match for each other.

The Windows Marketing Organization is searching for a Social Marketing Manager to support the Windows business.   Our team is at the center of driving a new revolution for Windows - to bring together these assets, to create new experiences and business opportunities. It’s a unique time to be at Windows.

You’ll need to have very strong collaboration skills, attention to details and organizational agility. You’ll be excited by the task of driving a global business and not daunted by the fast pace and continual evolution. You’ll be a relationship builder with the ability to make connections across work streams and provide stellar project management.

This is not a role for someone that wants to come along for the ride, it’s an opportunity to drive impact. Sound like a match for you? If it does, then don’t procrastinate- opportunities like these don’t come along often.

Key responsibilities include:

Drive social strategy for the Windows brand aligned to the marketing priorities.

Manage all daily social content on active channels (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and maintain editorial calendar.

Monitor social platforms for trends, new capabilities and new channel opportunities.

Manage agency/creative team, provide briefs and give strategic direction on all content.

Work with ATL/campaigns team on all social/digital executions and approve for owned social channels.

Collaborate with Windows.com and CRM managers to align creative, messaging, and campaigns across Windows digital properties

Collaborate across teams to align to all official messaging, apps/OEM/retail and others

Communicate with regional field teams managing social presence, ensure alignment on key brand

moments

Manage Customer Insight Center (CIC) community management team. Includes maintaining brand messaging/tone of voice, promoting team & business priorities via 1:1 conversations (campaigns, device, etc.), weekly summaries and monthly reporting for all reactive conversations, flagging & monitoring of any potential PR issues, serve as frontline communications of the brand to our customers, manage social playbook

Monthly reporting for all social channels - includes broadcast performance, web conversions, engagement and CTR, social listening of trends/share of voice, reactive response rate

Meet with social stakeholders x-company to share best practices, promote BG priorities as appropriate, share learnings

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Sr. Technical Account Manager

The Microsoft Public Sector Services, Department of Defense team is looking for an exceptional business and technical leader to perform the role of a Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM), responsible for managing one or more of our key Federal Customer(s).

A TAM is a trusted business advisor to Microsoft's Premier Support customers providing strategic guidance around operations and optimization of their IT infrastructure through quality Service Delivery Management. Once a Premier customer has deployed a Microsoft product, should something unexpected occur, the TAM working with Customer Service and Support (CSS), manages the incident to resolution and then follows up to ensure either product improvement within Microsoft or operational improvement within the customer's IT environment. By maintaining a long-term relationship with their customers a TAM gains an understanding of their customers' IT organizations' impact on overall business, their IT goals, and their improvement points - which is used by the TAM to create a Service Delivery Plan ensuring their customers' operational IT roadmap leads to success with Microsoft products.

Qualified candidates should have an advanced degree or equivalent experience in leading a professional services delivery team or managing service delivery. Experience within the Federal Government and / or Systems Integrator space is a plus. Must have 8+ years of industry or related consulting experience. Candidates must understand technology and have the background to provide leadership in the technological services practice. Strong oral/written communication, organization and interpersonal skills, combined with effective business acumen and negotiation skills and a demonstrated effectiveness in a managerial role are required.

The role requires a leader who is resourceful, confident under pressure, and has demonstrated knowledge in services, operational support, customer relationship management and business development.

Key initiatives for this role include:

Customer health through service delivery, planning and execution; customer satisfaction; emphasis on prevention and consultative advice (ITIL and MOF); management of and ability to drive growth of support services to enterprise services customers.

Scope and decision making include:

• Manages service delivery of a team of peers, leads through influence.

• Ability to interact communicate, strategize and influence at C-levels

• Manages a diverse and complex scope of support issues. Solve complex support issues effectively.

• Manages/leads critical support escalations, often including multiple internal and external support teams and often with visibility to internal and external leadership teams.

• Assesses customers’ risks and needs and recommends appropriate service offerings to proactively address.

• Documents recommendations formally via service delivery plan and presents to customer and virtual account team unit.

• Manage the delivery of recommended/agreed-upon services to achieve high customer satisfaction and trust.

• Make good, timely and financially sound decisions with moderate uncertainty or pressure on a consistent basis. Decisions sometimes impact immediate group and other related groups.

• Determine most effective method of problem resolution by utilizing internal resources.

• Leads sharing of best practices with team community. Consistently establishes and maintains working relationships with internal support delivery teams, customer support teams, customer contracts and materiel representatives.

• Frequently establishes and maintains relationships with Field Sales and MCS to execute on a service account/delivery plan.

• Position relies internally upon CSS Support Professionals, Premier Field Engineers, and their management, MCS Services (Engagement Managers/Project Managers), and Services Account Managers (Services Executives), EPG Account Executives, and Premier/Services regional and worldwide HQs.

• Communicates with and influences Microsoft Services leadership/management at team level.

• Externally, position relies upon Customer Support Manager (CSMs) and named Support Contacts - usually comprised of IT managers and individual technical contributors. Must also be able to establish and maintain consistent and productive relationships with customer Senior Director and CIO-level leadership teams.

• The position may require up to 50% travel and could include overnight stays.

• Lead clients through ITSM driven improvements.

• Able to maintain a broader perspective, and identifies and evaluates opportunities to enhance the business through cross-group collaboration.

• Creates influence strategies that cross organizational boundaries to achieve broad business goals.

Key Success Factors:

• Effective communication, facilitation and influencing skills

• Ability to present ideas clearly and concisely

• Demonstrated excellence at presenting complex development topics to both executive and technical personnel

• Self-starter, energizing, results oriented, and able to multi-task

• Articulates technology, solutions and services in a compelling way to all audiences. Expertly tailors messaging to specific audiences.

• Implements metrics to drive continuous improvements; drives the overall return on investment (ROI).

• Ability to lead the adoption of Microsoft technologies to influence the industry-wide direction of specific technologies and services.

• Collaborative leadership skills - exhibits willingness to engage other business partners within the organization, is innovative, creative and a team player with a solution-based approach to capture opportunities and remove barriers

• Clear Thinker - Strong decision making skills: takes proactive steps to generate results, uses data and other inputs to make decisions, owns decision, and takes accountability for work using strong organizational and analytical skills

• Provide technical mentoring, assessment and development to consultants in related technical communities.

• Contribute to IP development and reuse initiatives and drive proven practices in architecture, planning, and customer relationships.

• Providing customer guidance during product and services sales cycle

• Playing a vital part in business strategy by providing internal practice management risk assessment and review

• Driving successful solution deployments by ensuring proper business value and customer/partner satisfaction

• Growing the business through mentoring, talent pipeline development, and community evangelism

• Driving operational excellence and innovation

• Proven ability to solve challenging problems and deliver timely and high quality design solutions when presented with conflicting requirements, business demands, and technical risks.

Qualifications:

• BA required or Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent is highly desirable)

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in an enterprise support environment with a strong understanding of corporate account support needs and knowledge of support industry.

• Fundamental knowledge in two or more of the following: IT project management, network and desktop operating systems, information worker applications, database systems, messaging, management and operations, security.

• Consistently practices strong organizational, communication, project management, negotiation, and problem solving skills.

• Contribute to team operational precision by active design of and participation in community initiatives.

• ITILv3 Foundation and MOFv4 Foundation certifications required. PMP certifications highly preferred.

This role requires US citizenship and a minimum DoD Top Secret Security clearance. Overnight travel is required although primary workplace will be onsite / remote in the DC area. Travel requirements may vary and could be as much as 50% to include domestic and international travel. Candidates must possess current passport or be able to obtain passport within 90 days of hire.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior Program Manager

Are you passionate about solving deep technical problems with tough business requirements and direct customer impact? Do you want to work in a fast-paced platform cloud team shipping updates on a monthly basis? Are you looking to apply your open-source skills to growing business? Do you want to design and build a massive scale, worldwide, highly available, customer-focused application and server platform? This may be the place for you…

The Azure VM Program Management team designs and builds the IaaS offering of the Azure platform, on both Linux and Windows. The team interfaces with external partners, helps internal partners, and builds the overall Azure compute strategy. The team also develops the business logic and technical requirements for worldwide deployments of Azure applications.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to create an ongoing compute vision, plan and drive features and architecture changes across a wide set of technology areas in the team, specifically focusing on Linux and other Open Source solutions. This role will also be responsible for improvements in the scalability and global deployment of components managing compute resources.

The responsibilities will include:

• Formulating a vision, value proposition and roadmap for compute improvements in the platform.

• Guiding design and direction of the compute components, helping design for scalability and global reach.

• Driving customer-focused engineering by planning and designing platform improvements based upon customer feedback.

• Leading a team with guidance and direction based upon the above vision and strategy.  

• Driving business strategy across multiple facets of the compute stack.

The Qualifications

• Open Source development and Linux expertise is required

• Strong leadership, with proven track record with Program Manager core competencies.

• History of successfully coordinating cross-team projects and collaborating with partners, both internal and external

• Track record of making trade-offs, negotiating, and building consensus, all while keeping the project goals in mind

• 8-15 years of engineering experience, with demonstrated success in leading complex, cross-team software projects from planning through release

• Strong working experience in Windows or large-scale cloud applications.

• Technical Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Working experience in distributed programming models and in building very large scale distributed systems is desired

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Assistant Store Manager

Assistant Store Manager

Your enthusiasm is contagious.

So is your passion for great technology. Why not bring them to a new kind of workplace where you can really make your mark? If you love to share your excitement, engage with people, and empower them to explore all the ways Microsoft technology can make a difference in their lives, we should get to know one another. Time to get in on the ground floor.

The Assistant Store Manager will perform most of the functions of the store manager on a rotational basis, with primary responsibility for a functional area of the store.

SUMMARY OF ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

- Recruit, interview, hire, train and develop a team of friendly, customer focused sales and support staff

- Maintain an in-store learning environment that delivers the most knowledgeable and skilled team in retail

- Provide feedback, development and growth opportunities focused on producing the next team of retail store leaders and driving attrition to below 20% annually

- Drive sales through effective execution and team support of Microsoft retail strategies

- Protect company assets including people, merchandise, facilities and money

REQUIREMENTS:

- 3-5 Years Retail store management experience

- 3-5 years of high traffic/high volume retail experience

- 3-5 years of people management experience

- College Degree Preferred

- Previous experience working with and selling technology preferred

SKILLS/ABILITIES REQUIRED:

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Strong presentation skills

- Experience managing in a customer service environment a plus

- Ability to build strong customer relationships

- Ability to develop and motivate employee team

- Strong organizational skills

- Attention to detail necessary

Lifting with or without assistance (loading and unloading all those great products and carrying purchases out for our customers may be required!

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Finance Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to play a key role in our transition to cloud services?   Do you want to help us enhance financial performance insight and enable greater cost transparency into Cloud Infrastructure?   If so come join MCI Finance as a Finance Manager on the Financial Reporting & Systems team!

Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance (MCI Finance) is a new, exciting and fast evolving finance team within Microsoft Finance at the forefront of Microsoft’s Mobile First, Cloud First strategy with a charter to:

  Drive End to end Cloud Infrastructure planning and drive unit cost of capacity down

  Expand Cloud Servers Profitability with a focus on Gross Margin

  Support Long Term bets to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition

  Enhance transparency into Cloud Infrastructure costs to drive the right behavior

The team supports over 200 online services including Azure, Office 365, Bing, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, OneDrive and Skype!  

The Financial Reporting & Systems’ core focus is on enabling greater transparency into Cloud Infrastructure costs to drive the right behavior.   The team is primarily responsible for Finance Rhythm of Business and process efficiencies, consolidated reporting and analytics, financial reporting systems and automation, and current + next generation of internal cost allocation models.   This is a highly visible and pivotal team within MCI Finance, with responsibility for key deliverables and engagement with multiple stakeholders including MCI Finance Leadership, C+E & ASG Central Controllerships, and CFP&A.  

To be successful in the role, the Finance Manager requires a mix of strong analytical, financial reporting and business process excellence skills to provide the appropriate level of key Finance ROB guidance and consolidated financial insight.   In addition, the successful candidate will need to have the ability and confidence to work across teams, understand and communicate integrated processes, manage change to simplify, make seamless integrations and drive future advancements.

Core Responsibilities:

• Finance Rhythms of Business (ROB):   Manage the MCI Finance’s Finance (ROB) for close, forecasting, target setting and budgeting in alignment with the C+E/ASG and corporate timelines.   Communicate required deliverables clearly and facilitate reviews with key MCI Finance stakeholders.

• Financial Reporting:   Drive consolidated financial reporting and analysis for MCI Finance and preparation of key deliverables for monthly close, planning (forecast, budget, target etc.) and other financial cycle.

• Process Transformation:   Lead process efficiencies to continuously improve monthly close, forecasting and planning cycles to ensure key deadlines and deliverables are optimized.

• Automation:   Collaborate with MCI Finance stakeholders on end-to-end reporting solutions via automation to enable greater productivity, simplification and enhanced cost transparency.

• Partnership:   Support the Financial Reporting & Systems team engagement with key stakeholders in MCI Finance, C+E Finance, ASG Finance, and CFP&A.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Controllership, Audit or similar functions

• Strong competencies in the Office suite: especially Excel, Powerpivot and PowerPoint.   Hands-on knowledge of MS finance tools (MSRA, Mercury, PlanCast, BWB, MBRT, Headtrax, etc.), controls, and systems.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Ability to manage multiple and competing projects/priorities.

• Strong communication, cross group collaboration and interpersonal skills

• Strong, proven program management, process change and process management skills

• Highly developed analytical and organizational skills

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment

• Experience in cloud services/infrastructure or related technology fields a plus

Education

BA/BS in Accounting or Finance. MBA, CPA and/or advanced technical degree preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER

Content Evangelist

Make the Marketing team at Microsoft Advertising part of your career story!

Are you passionate about digital advertising? Do you have deep experience in developing content that supports an evolving brand story and the products that are part of that story? If so, you might be the perfect fit for the Microsoft Advertising business. We are looking for a Content Evangelist who can turn words on paper into action and experiences that turn heads and wow our customers and the industry.

The Content Evangelist will be a member of the Brand Strategy team and is responsible for communicating the value and effectiveness of our display advertising portfolio to markets across the world.   Your mission is to light up our brand by creating stories about our portfolio and products that demonstrate our advertising excellence, creativity, relevance to marketers and technological innovation.   You would work closely with our product marketing and brand team to create these scenarios, stories and product demos.   Then you would take the stories on the road -- with evangelism to influential internal partners, the Advertising and Online Trade Marketing Partners, Sales teams and key thought leaders throughout the world-wide markets. Your ultimate goal?   You become the go-to, trusted advisor and advocate for Microsoft Advertising sales teams because you create the sizzle that showcases Microsoft’s powerful position in the display marketplace.  

The ideal candidate will be able to:

  Quickly grasp complex concepts and rapidly translate them into compelling, customer-facing content

  Get the right people in the room, land the plan, and churn out high-quality content at the speed of light

  Juggle multiple projects with multiple content deliverables

  Take a vague request and hit the mark on the first try by following up with smart questions

  Work effectively and happily in a fast-paced environment and within a high-performing team.

  Leverage data to validate content and to effectively target and understand the audience

  Knock down blockers with finesse

  Be constantly looking for ways to scale your work

  Build great relationships with internal partners

  Approach work with professionalism, humor and a positive attitude

Core Responsibilities:

  Develop ad product and consumer product scenarios that demonstrate excellence, innovation, creativity and relevance.

  Create persuasive, passionate, data-validated, high impact, high quality presentations

  Prepare executives to speak/demo at Industry Conferences, client meetings and events

  Write expert content

  Hire and manage technical support vendors to develop technology demos and scenarios; manage their deliverables

  Build and maintain high-quality relationships with industry leaders and leadership at across the ad industry.

  Be a consultative partner to Microsoft Advertising account teams, including AEs, Global Account Directors, and District Managers, by engaging on a regular basis to educate, provide updates, align on account plans, identify opportunities to drive revenue, and evangelize our unique value prop in the marketplace.

Requirements:

  Expert level knowledge of online media and advertising; including minimum 8-10 years of relevant media sales, service, marketing, or program management experience related to the advertising industry

  Minimum 3 years marketing or related advertising experience (5+ years of experience preferred)

  Display advertising experience preferred, Search advertising experience a plus

  Proven ability to engage within the advertising marketing community through expert written content and track record of building online relationships

  Positive, can-do spirit and passion for digital marketing, search and technology

  Expert public speaking capability, able to represent Microsoft Advertising internally and externally

  Experience managing agencies or vendors

  Experience establishing and nurturing mid to senior-level, long term relationships with digital marketing executives and community thought leaders

  Ability to deal with ambiguity and adapt quickly to new business directions and goals

  Proven track record of exceptional performance, high productivity and meeting deadlines

  Expert skills in PowerPoint and knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications. Knowledge of SharePoint, Microsoft Sway and PowerPoint Mix preferred.

  Experience in creative direction for visual and written content, including video, a plus

  Ability to create demo mock-ups or flow-diagrams a plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Subsidiary Product Marketing Manager - C&E

Want to be a part of one of the most exciting, fastest-growing, businesses in the company?   We are on the mission of “Winning the Infrastructure” in a Cloud-first world. . This is going to be an incredible year for customers, partners, and the industry as we reshape the industry with SQL, Windows Server, and Azure. Help us shape the server infrastructure landscape for small and medium businesses (SMB) including our Distributor/Value Added Resellers (Distributors /Value Added Resellers), as well as Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The SMB Lead is responsible for orchestrating key strategies across sales, marketing, partner and or services stakeholders to grow our dynamic SMB business in the US Subsidiary. This role will own planning and achieving revenue targets for the SMB business across SQL Server Enterprise Edition, SQL Server Standard, Power BI and DB Workloads in Azure for the SMB market. Success requires leadership and collaboration across a variety of stakeholders, including: US Subsidiary management (M&O, Partner), field and the WW C+E Business Group.

If you do your best work in a dynamic business environment, want to get closer to customers and partners, or to gain experience in a role that spans across marketing, sales and the partner channel then we would like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities:

•      Define, lead, and execute business plans and priorities through excellent business planning, scorecard and ROB management for SQL Server in SMB

•      Execute plans to drive awareness and Hoster-generated revenue through the SMB Channel

•      Define and execute digital SMB campaigns that drive awareness, consideration and revenue leveraging self-service business models.

•      Lead strong marketing strategy, partner and sales enablement within the US subsidiary and US market via customer or partner targeting, landing the product value proposition, messaging, compete, positioning, and GTM approach..

•      Work with WW C&E BG to land SMB business priorities, readiness and campaigns across customers and partners that drive to scorecard achievement.

•      Land digital/telemarketing campaign to increase net-new SMB customers.

•      Lead excellence in execution across the customer journey as the orchestration point across the US subsidiary for all C+E products in SMB

•      Be a product evangelist by storytelling through customer and partner engagements

•      Gather and analyze business insights through events, customer and partner engagements or visits, and EBCs to improve financial performance.

Key Qualifications:

•      A highly-motivated, results-driven, strategic thinker with robust analytical skills and in-depth knowledge of integrated marketing strategies and execution.

•      Candidates should have a demonstrated track record of success in product management, sales, marketing, business or program management.

•      Segment (SMB) or Subsidiary knowledge preferred.

•      Working knowledge of the C+E product portfolio.

•      Audience experience an asset including IT Pro, BDM or Partner.

•      Experience profitably growing revenue in the SMB community, as asset.

•      The ability to work independently in ambiguous and changing environments, along with exceptional listening and collaboration skills

•      Strong communication skills; must thrive working across organizational and cultural boundaries

•      5+ years’ experience in consulting, marketing, strategic planning, financial or business analysis.

•      BA or BS required in marketing, math, economics, engineering or a related discipline. MBA strongly preferred.

•      Diversity candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

Some travel required.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Senior Program Manager

Are you passionate about solving deep technical problems with tough business requirements and direct customer impact? Do you want to work in a fast-paced platform cloud team shipping updates on a monthly basis? Are you looking to apply your open-source skills to growing business? Do you want to design and build a massive scale, worldwide, highly available, customer-focused application and server platform? This may be the place for you…

The Azure VM Program Management team designs and builds the IaaS offering of the Azure platform, on both Linux and Windows. The team interfaces with external partners, helps internal partners, and builds the overall Azure compute strategy. The team also develops the business logic and technical requirements for worldwide deployments of Azure applications.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to create an ongoing compute vision, plan and drive features and architecture changes across a wide set of technology areas in the team, specifically focusing on Linux and other Open Source solutions. This role will also be responsible for improvements in the scalability and global deployment of components managing compute resources.

The responsibilities will include:

• Formulating a vision, value proposition and roadmap for compute improvements in the platform.

• Guiding design and direction of the compute components, helping design for scalability and global reach.

• Driving customer-focused engineering by planning and designing platform improvements based upon customer feedback.

• Leading a team with guidance and direction based upon the above vision and strategy.  

• Driving business strategy across multiple facets of the compute stack.

The Qualifications

• Open Source development and Linux expertise is required

• Strong leadership, with proven track record with Program Manager core competencies.

• History of successfully coordinating cross-team projects and collaborating with partners, both internal and external

• Track record of making trade-offs, negotiating, and building consensus, all while keeping the project goals in mind

• 8-15 years of engineering experience, with demonstrated success in leading complex, cross-team software projects from planning through release

• Strong working experience in Windows or large-scale cloud applications.

• Technical Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

• Working experience in distributed programming models and in building very large scale distributed systems is desired

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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