Principal Technical Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!
CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide.
Cloud Manufacturing Operations and Fulfillment (CMOF) organization within CSCP manages business operations performance and supplies hardware to the data centers. Well-defined and executed supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.
Within the CMOF organization, the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) Readiness organization plays a key role in the pre-dock readiness for all GPU deployments globally. This team is chartered not only to enable the rapid AI growth, but also develop and transform capabilities to execute and optimize at scale.
We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager for our GPU Deployment Readiness Engineering team. A well-defined and executed supply chain ensures reliable performance, optimized cost, manages unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base. Our focus across the infrastructure organization is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.
With a technical program management and process improvement mindset, this role is responsible for delivery of GPU Cloud capacity. The role is primarily focused on driving operational excellence, identifying and developing capabilities to scale and optimize our workflows, and working cross-functionally to achieve our customer and internal goals.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
Ensure that GPU capacity deployments are meeting delivery to committed customer dates
Manage cross-functional prioritization, communication and coordination of all hardware deployment deliverables to key stakeholders
Deliver and improve core metrics and OKRs for capability, quality and cycle time
Track, manage and mitigate risks to program schedule and cost Identify, design and lead transformation, automation, optimization and lean initiatives
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree AND 6 years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
3 years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Other Requirements:
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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Proven track record of partnering with data center, software engineering and cross functional supply chain teams to drive execution as well as improvements in tooling and automation
Technical understanding of new product introduction (NPI) workflows and networking topology in a cloud infrastructure footprint
Demonstrated technical problem solving and excellent analytical, verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills with attention to detail while finding ways to scale, optimize and eliminate bottlenecks
Collaborative and effective inter-personal and executive communication, creating clarity and achieving results in a matrix environment.
Excellent analytical skills; ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions, including analysis specifications and models;
Understanding of process engineering and optimization, including gathering, analyzing, and defining business and functional requirements; creating global metrics, trend charts and other decision-making tools.
Technical Program Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 – $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 – $294,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 1, 2024.
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