Principal Program Manager

Are you interested in learning and driving the growth of new clouds at Microsoft? Are you looking for unlimited growth opportunities? Does creating, shaping, and growing a new kind of cloud from the ground up excite you? Do you have a passion for technology and an obsession for customers? Does strategic, global impact get you excited?

Microsoft is building Azure to be world’s computer to tackle the hardest problems on the planet. Core to the success of this mission is that every customer, in every industry can adopt Azure to further their mission. The Microsoft Cloud for Sovereign Team is at the center of this mission, building government friendly cloud infrastructure around the world to support government cloud adoption for their most complex and sensitive workloads.

This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your strong understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or technical approaches for hyperscale cloud to further develop and evolve the cloud deployment and operations strategy for Azure.

**Responsibilities**:
As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for being an expert in how we support country specific sovereignty requirements, work with stakeholders to understand their needs, and help define the technical roadmap to ensure our future services meet those needs. Turn problems of today into features of tomorrow.

As a part of a growing team, your responsibilities will include:
Architecture: You will help mature the country cloud architecture, identify opportunities for design optimization, and ensure our sovereign features are positioned to scale. You will be taking the existing cloud architecture, aligning it with customer requirements then helping make prioritization decisions that have the most impact for our business model.

Communications: You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining regular communications about cloud sovereignty capabilities and upcoming developments. In addition, you will be able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.

Team Collaboration: You will pull stakeholders together to align on a shared vision, working with a talented and diverse group of PMs, Developers, and internal teams that rely on our services to be successful. You must be a great collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft.

Cultural Leadership: Ability and passion to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusion.

**Qualifications**:
Basic Qualifications:

- 6+ years of software development and/or product management with a strong track record of shipping products and services.
Demonstrated experience in planning, cross-group collaboration, communications, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail
- Passion and proven record for execution with measurable results; focus on delivering impact.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success
- Ability to work successfully across a complex, highly matrixed environment
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity
- Demonstrated strong capability in verbal and written communications skills across a geographically dispersed audience

Preferred Qualifications / Skills:

- Problem solver.
- Executive presence with demonstrated deep engagement with senior level customers and decision makers.
- Be able to ramp quickly to understand and solve complex problems. This might be integration of technologies or environmental issues that are blocking a scenario for a customer.
- Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services.
- Good experience of engineering practices and engaging engineering teams so that you can express and drive new feature requirements in Azure.
- Ability to leverage telemetry and diagnostics to derive insights that add value to our operations.
- Examples of bringing new approaches or different ways of doing things to an existing problem space.
- Excellent Communication Skills and Situational Awareness. You will be working closely with other product group people across Microsoft (Directors, Group Managers etc.) you will also work closely with customer leadership, engineers, and system administrators. You will have to be able to adjust your approach to the specific audience

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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