Are you passionate about building cool devices and technologies?  The Surface Team focuses on building devices that fully express the Windows vision.  A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want and elicit their excitement.  Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing.  We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you!

PMs are responsible for leading the definition and development from concept to prototype to implementation for technologies in Surface products. He/She will work with internal / external partner teams, product management, architects, development, quality assurance, and user experience teams to align objectives, create functional specifications, implement a plan, and ultimately deliver a high-quality product.  He/she will be accountable for the relationship with development partners as the main point of contact for features and deliverable plans.

Responsibilities

Deliver product features and design requirements to partners.
Prioritize the feature set against goals and schedules.
Review and provide feedback of functional requirements that enable product engineering to execute.
Drive the execution and delivery of messages, proposals and directions between Microsoft and partners.
Anticipate risks; assess, mitigate, and manage accordingly.
Organize and present program reviews/status to Redmond team.
Develop and protect intellectual property.

Qualifications

Minimum of 6+ years working as a technical program manager or other engineering discipline defining, driving, and shipping products or services through multiple ship cycles.
Held responsibility for the creation of functional specifications, project schedules and building plans to deliver.
Enthusiastic, attention to detail, results oriented, organized, motivated and self-driven.
Strong strategic leadership and analytical skills.
Solid critical thinking and questioning skills.
High degree of flexibility - willing to fill in the gaps rather than relying on others.
Strong engineering background with a passion for shipping product.
Experience with hardware design is a plus.
Experience with hardware partner development is a plus.
Experience with one or more of the following: System integration, PC architecture, CPU’s and memory technologies, Mechanical design of consumer products, Touch and displays.
Minimum of Bachelor's Degree Required

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.