Technical Program Manager
Join our team and make the world better for developers!
We are building the Developer Relations dream team in Azure engineering. Our global team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds. We're excited to support and contribute to open source platforms, tools, and processes. We're spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn.
This is the heart and soul of reinventing Microsoft's relationship with developers. Sound exciting? This is your opportunity to join and be a key part of our mission! Learn more here: www.aka.ms/meettheteam
The work our team does allows Developer Relations products to be accessible around the world. Working closely with development teams, our engineering system supports up to 14 builds and over 300 branches to bring the best developer experiences regardless of location or language. We are looking for someone with that same drive, energy, and passion to help build out our engineering system and process to continue improving our platform for all Developers.
As a Senior PM, you will be driving end-to-end initiatives, from setting the vision and roadmap to delivery and user adoption. The role requires strong technical acuity and PM skills, as well as close collaboration with the engineering team for feature development and delivery. You will collaborate and influence a broad set of International stakeholders across the company and will play a key role in ensuring customer success.
Our Team:
We are a solution team that partners across Microsoft Developer Relations to create solid, scalable solution to support the Localization and Community Leader programs. We value unique perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas that bring greater value to the entire team and our services. As we empower each team member to lead their service, we encourage creativity, ideas for new innovative solutions and always enjoy working together as a team.Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end process and workflow to drive efficiency & consolidation in our workflow & tools.
- Own the delivery of features in our localization and community platforms.
- Lead and represent the service in backlog discussions & standups to establish appropriate prioritization of engineering requirements.
- Establish and leverage telemetry to prioritize Engineering work and impact business results.
- Deliver solutions to our engineering team that allow us to scale the service and bring us closer to spontaneous translation of our services.
- Collaborate across teams, levels of management and development teams to onboard new projects into the localization workflows. Ensure that blockers to the localization flow are removed.
- Deliver end-to-end service performance and operational health to identify and address failing points throughout the system.
QualificationsRequired Qualifications:
• 5+ years experience designing and implementing process & workflow automation.
• 5+ years experience writing functional specifications for product development.
• 5+ years experience in a Technical Program Manager, Product Manager or Project Manager role.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or 5+ years equivalent work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 5+ years - Solid understanding of Microsoft products, software lifecycle methodology.
• PMP or Agile PM certification.
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management and writing clear technical specifications.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and passion to solve hard problems as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and in writing.
• Familiarity in many of the following: - REST - JSON - XML - MySQL/SQL Server/SQL Azure/NOSQL - C#/Java - Powershell/Bash- Windows Server/Azure/AWS.
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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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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