Job Description

Interested in a start-up experience that is fast-paced and exciting, which will also give you tremendous learning and growth opportunities? The Azure Dedicated team (AzD) a fast-growing part of the Azure group that is responsible for expanding the capabilities of the Azure cloud in several areas.

The Azure Dedicated team is looking for a driven program manager who has solid product experience and a do what it takes approach combined with a strong technical acumen to deliver on our VMware initiatives. The program manager will help to define, align and drive the plan for building a robust and ever-growing ecosystem of partners for Azure VMware Solution, from a product perspective. Product requirement definition, prioritization, validation, and negotiation will be frequent skills required for this exciting role.

The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with a strong work ethic and a growth mindset, who will create value and differentiation for AzD customers. We value those who have a thoughtful point of view, love to collaborate, embrace diversity, have a bias for action, and contribute to the success of others. To succeed in this role, technical & delivery skills, people skills, strong communications and organization, and proactive engagement in areas of product management are critical. If you are the kind of person willing to roll-up your sleeves and to take pride in what you do, we want to hear from you!

* Develop plans and onboarding strategies for building a vivid ecosystem of partners for Azure VMware Solutions.
* Understand VMware and Azure products to create a robust strategy for delivering value to customers and stakeholders.
* Work in partnership with other groups in a large organization, in order to leverage internal and external capabilities to build a ever growing ecosystem of partners.
* Create and nurture strategic relationships with key partners to drive commitment to AVS.
* Define product requirements, engagement arquitecture, metrics, success criteria, and goals for partner products, in alignment with our product strategy.
* Work with sales, partner sales and technical enablement teams to support needs and efficient execution of the partner program.
* Work with leadership, customers, engineering, and specially partners to create alignment on roadmap and individual projects/workstreams.
* Drive and deliver decisive actions, clarity, good risk assessment, and regular, concise, clear and compelling updates to stakeholders.
* Make sure we are following strong compliance and security requirements in all offerings, partner engagements and products, adhering to Microsoft security & compliance standards.
* Mentor, train and/or guide stakeholders, partners, and product team members. Guides partners to build a solutions portfolio of products and services aligned with AVS product opportunities.
* Create base for training programs and collateral material, provide guidance and hands-on action on on schedules, content and needs for knowledge transfer for all external technical stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

* 7+ years of relevant experience in program, partner or product management
* Knowledge and experience designing/developing/utilizing solutions using VMWare's Core Cloud
* Infrastructure components (vSphere, SRM, vSAN, NSX) is a must.
* Strong core platform architecture concepts including hardware platform, hypervisor, Networking, security, data protection, high availability, monitoring & alerting, patching etc, preferably on Azure.
* Demonstrated capability of creating innovative solutions and product opportunities.
* Proven record of problem solving in matrix structures, being able to break down complex problems in actionable components, supervising and bringing clarity to execution.
* Experience building relationships and navigating large organizations and external partners, understanding complex relationships.
* Experience with Azure Hosting or Infrastructure background and public cloud.

Preferred Qualifications:

* BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or technology-focused discipline or equivalent experience
* Exceptional presentation, influencing and communication skills.
* Experience with direct partner management.
* VCDX-DCV/CMA certification is preferred but not required
* PMI, CSM, CSPO or similar desired
* VCP-NV or similar desired.

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.

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