Job Description

Microsoft has the unique privilege of being the preferred technology and innovation partner to the largest and most forward-leaning customers and partners. These customers' scenarios will be lighthouses for their markets and present an opportunity for Azure and Microsoft to learn and grow, create transformative technology offerings, build businesses, create market opportunity and expand share, and advance competitive advantages. These vanguard customers require a distinct end to end customer experience that we are calling the Azure Vanguard Program.

The Azure Vanguard Program is looking for a senior leader to be one of the founding members of the Vanguard team, and be a part of the creation, implementation and successful execution of this program. We require an innovative thinker, with a track record of driving change to align with the evolving needs of our largest and most significant customers as well as partnering with them to shape and disrupt markets through adoption and innovation of Microsoft technologies.

This role requires an individual with personal drive, a desire to roll up their sleeves and make things happen; a technical program manager with exceptional attention to detail who is highly resilient and thrives in a fast-paced and high-profile environment while addressing and solving large, complicated and challenging problems.

As the Principal Program Manager in the Azure Vanguard Program, you will be responsible for:

* Creating and owning the joint Microsoft and Vanguard Customer adoption and innovation strategy for specific Vanguard Customers
* Creating and owning of the E2E customer experience, by collaborating across Microsoft to programmatically unify the execution of engineering resources and deliverables including the engineering roadmap, drive adoption of our cloud offerings across C+AI, and create H2 and H3 technology innovations to support customer and market-based digital transformation
* Lead delivery execution for datacenter workflow and implementation working across Microsoft; network coordination and implementation working across Microsoft; ensuring engineering adherence to customer contract terms; coordination with UK sub and MCS delivery team, application development with in-region resources for new technologies; coordination with HPC and VMWare team for service delivery; and coordination of execution, delivery and blocker resolution across Microsoft
* Being the responsible owner for the success and outcomes of the Vanguard Customers, briefing senior executives on status of customer adoption, and effectively leading a v-team across C+AI engineering, Microsoft field and corporate organizations to help navigate and coordinate efforts across the company
* Recruiting, developing and leading a team and establishment of a team culture, operational models and personnel growth

What we are offering the ideal candidate:

* An opportunity to drive impact at the market-level with Fortune 10 and other leading organizations
* Opportunities to showcase your leadership and technical skills to directly help customers at the most senior levels of the company
* Direct impact on product engineering roadmap and delivery based on customer requirements and market needs
* Impact to the Azure business all up and the broader culture and environment within Azure Global
* Minimum of 15+ years of experience in managing engineering projects, program management with a track record of building programs and businessesu202F
* Experience with cloud-based technologies across platform innovations and management including HPC. Ideally a portion of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP and other cloud platform providers.
* Deep ethos and understanding of customer needs and the methods by which to gather research and intuition on articulated and unarticulatedu202Fneedsu202F
* Ability to work across groups - Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and Senior Executives as well as across international teams to build a unified and coordinated One Microsoft strategy.u202F Must be amazing at making others great and building on others' ideas to arrive at businessu202Foutcomesu202F
* Product thought leadership with technical curiosity and aptitude to quickly understand service capabilities, technical issues and customer needs and how best to leverage technology and innovation to support Horizon 1, 2 and 3 opportunities
* A diverse and inclusive view of our customers and employees such that he/she enables and inspires, attracts, develops, and retains people to do their best work on the team. Strong organizational and people leadership skills and the ability to look around corners and proactively lead the team to transform theu202Fcultureu202F
* Growth mindset that can envision the future of how our business and technology will evolve -and how our cloud-based offerings can transform and disrupt markets and verticalsu202Fu202F

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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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