We are looking for our next team member: an experienced Technical Program Manager who is on top of silicon and hardware trends, ready to dive deep into emerging technologies, and is motivated by working with a technical advisor to deliver joint success.

This role requires a self-motivated individual, comfortable operating in a fast-paced and highly technical environment. The successful candidate will have a passion for technology and want to be involved in the early days of hardware innovations that span our cloud, edge, and client platforms. You will be required to work across Microsoft and externally with our external hardware partners to define and navigate project milestones, all while staying focused on Microsoft’s strategic goals.

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Responsibilities

You will:

• Work closely with the TA on product divisions and partner engagements, identifying joint efforts aligned with Microsoft’s strategic silicon and hardware ambitions.
• Define success criteria for key product division initiatives and strategic partnerships: partnering with senior leaders across engineering, strategy, and research to identify milestones, responsibilities, and processes that accelerate our product groups’ existing efforts.
• Apply excellent project and program management techniques to drive clarity and accountability for large, complex collaboration efforts across multiple teams.
• Evaluate and communicate the health and progress of our partnerships.
• Find ground truth: do independent research (competitive, market analysis, analyst reports) and use knowledge to solve for Microsoft’s global maximum.
• Establish incubation efforts that demonstrate the promise of new hardware, product categories and business models.

We are looking for passionate people who are:

• Are eager to work hard and have a great time working on future-changing technology in the silicon and hardware space.
• Have proven experience with customers and partners, and who feel excited when a partner is happy.
• Are passionate about technology and are constantly seeking to learn.
• Have a proven track record of coordinating the execution and timely delivery of projects.
• Have shown to be an excellent liaison between teams, identifying and leveraging collaboration opportunities

Qualifications

Required:

• Knowledge of hardware systems, architectures, and system development in cloud, edge, and client scenarios.
• Solid understanding of AI training and inference from a hardware perspective.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or related field
• 8 years of experience in Product/Project/Program Manager or Engineering role

Preferred:

• Demonstrated success managing strategic partnerships, including defining and marshalling large-scale collaborative projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Understanding of performance analysis as well financial aspects of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Experience working on early-stage projects.
• Familiarity with high performance System-on a Chip (SoCs).
• Microsoft experience preferred.

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.