Job Description

Do you enjoy partnering, collaborating and building scalable modern services to deliver trusted software solutions for our customers? Are you passionate about making the Microsoft Windows more secure? Are you comfortable with huge breadth of scope and are confident to go deep where needed? Does managing, securing and driving the availability of Petabytes of data and artifacts, across Windows and IoT releases seems exciting to you? Do you have the passion to make the engineering system that builds Windows, more efficient, modern and secure? If the answer to all these questions is a Yes, then we have the right role and opportunity for you.

We are looking for a seasoned Principal Group program manager to lead our Engineering System Platform PM team. The mission of the team is to build and enable Customer Centricity and Trust as a Core Platform, by help driving Security, Transparency/Data Insights, and Business Continuity for our services, while also ensuring cost effective, scalable artifact curation. The team is diverse, go-getter and full of passionate smart individuals. As a GPM, you must be able to retain and enhance the culture of the organization and help the team learn and grow, through coaching and care.

The successful candidate will have strong program management skills, and excellent cross-group collaboration skills, coupled with the ability to schedule and prioritize work against multiple deadlines and direct the teams to success. Strong communication skills and the ability to thrive in an ambiguous and dynamic environment are a must. Candidate should represent the growth mindset and display Microsoft cultural values in day to day activities.

A Group Program manager in EPSS

* Has a passion for people management with a demonstrated track record recruiting and retaining high performers
* Builds upon a strong team ethos and embodies our company values, cultivating a culture reflective of those values around diversity, inclusion, and customer obsession
* Leads by example through the model, coach, care philosophy
* Has business and technical acumen; Engages and influences C-level leaders on strategic areas and discussions
* Is customer and partner obsessed
* Collaborates across organizational boundaries, to drive right business outcomes

Qualifications

* BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or related field preferred
* 10+ years of Program/Technical Program Management experience
* Proven experience in recruiting, building and growing teams of technical PMs
* Proven experience shipping multiple products/services
* Proven experience collaborating across teams/divisions

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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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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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