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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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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United States of America: Temporary Eurasia Program Officer

Temporary Eurasia Program Officer | ReliefWeb Skip to main content Labs Blog Mobile About Us Help Login / Register HomeUpdatesCountriesDisastersTopicsOrganizationsJobsTraining Print14 Jan 2015Temporary Eurasia Program OfficerJob—Closing date: 14 Apr 2015

Freedom House promotes the spread of freedom and democracy around the world through research, advocacy, and programs that support frontline activists. We are a leader in identifying threats to freedom through our highly regarded analytic reports, including Freedom in the World, Freedom of the Press, Freedom on the Net, and Nations in Transit. With 13 field offices and two U.S. offices, we support the right of every individual to be free.

Position Summary

The Emergency Assistance Program provides individual human rights defenders and civil society organizations with small grants for medical, legal, humanitarian and other emergencies. Under the direction of the Program Director (PD), the Program Officer will provide programmatic support to the Fund on cases from Eurasia, including finance, logistical, administrative, research, writing and data analysis assistance. This position is based in Washington, DC and reports to the Director for Emergency Assistance Program.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in political science, international relations, human rights, law, or related field, Master’s degree preferredMinimum 4 – 6 years of experience in program management including reporting ability and knowledge of funder account requirementStrong ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writingAbility to communicate fluently in Russian required, fluency in at least one other regional language also preferredStrong appreciation of and demonstrated experience in human rights defense workDemonstrated experience with managing and creating budgetsStrong knowledge of human rights principles and mechanisms, and democracy promotionAcademic and/or field experience, specifically in/on, Russia and the wider Eurasia regionStrong ability to plan, organize, prioritize work, and multi-task to meet tight deadlinesAbility to apply superb attention to detail and consistently produce timely and error-free workAbility to learn database and other software, e.g. Martus, and observe security proceduresAbility to coordinate travel logistics, meetings, and events

Some Duties and Responsibilities

Contribute to the preparation of reports, proposals, grants, press releases, and budgets as requiredLiaise with State/DRL on vetting of cases and respond to queries from DRLReview and develop applications to the Fund under the supervision of the PD, which includes evaluating applications, working with referring organizations or individuals, finding sources of information on the case and country involved, entering cases into database, providing translation if necessary, and maintaining information on cases, with a focus on those from IranMonitor impact of grants and maintain database for his/her own cases/others as assignedAssist with developing and maintaining in-country and regional networks of human rights defenders, civil society organizations, experts, and regional partnersOrganize and facilitate meetings with relevant Freedom House regional teamArrange team meetings and travel, prepare weekly reports, map updates and staff briefing summariesOther related duties as assigned.How to apply:

Qualified and Interested Applicants

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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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SENIOR IT/OPS PROGRAM MGR

The Microsoft Operations Center is building the next generation of operational capability for hyper-scale. To enable the kind of growth and complexity we encounter and need to handle, we embed effective continuous service improvement, program management and business intelligence into the core of our operations, leveraging Big Data, SQL and a combination of tools and processes to ensure service delivery that is measurable, repeatable and consistent. We are actively hiring for a Senior Program Manager who would lead our investments in several of these key areas. If your passion is BI and Data that enables services to perform better, let's talk!

Roles and Responsibilities

Building, developing and enhancing existing and new tools and business intelligence data specs and requirements.

Actively engaging with tools and business intelligence teams across the organization to ensure requirements are accepted and tooling is developed in accordance with these.

Owning and driving monitoring and tooling for the MOC operations organization including 3rd party monitoring like Keynote and Gomez.

Basic Qualifications

2+ years of experience with program management, operations management or technical leadership in operations or engineering for online services, service providers or telecommunications providers

1+ years of experience in SQL Server, Business Intelligence or Datawarehousing

Preferred Qualifications

4+ years of experience with program management, operations management or technical leadership in operations or engineering for online services, service providers or telecommunications providers

2+ years of experience in SQL Server, Business Intelligence or Datawarehousing

Past experience with 3rd party monitoring including Keynote, Gomez, etc is strongly preferred

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS or related discipline or equivalent work experience

Knowledge of SQL, Excel and basic data manipulations

Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.

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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