Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting products in Microsoft, passionate about exceeding customer and partner expectations and advancing Microsoft’s cloud first strategy? Are you interested in a start-up like environment, passionate about cloud computing technology and driving growth in one of Microsoft’s core businesses? If so, then look no further than the Azure Customer Experience Team! Microsoft Azure provides customers and partners with on-demand and infinitely scalable infrastructure and platform enabling the creation of truly groundbreaking solutions.

FastTrack for Azure – ISVs and Startups helps our partners onboard their solutions to Azure and our Marketplace, getting them on track to “build it right, architect it right, the first time”.

Our group takes a solution-centric approach, providing our partners with Microsoft Azure engineers, tools, and best practices to ensure their solutions are cutting edge, feature rich and ahead of their competition.

Our team is looking for you, a Senior Program Manager, to support our India Startup business that brings great teamwork, organization & structure, curiosity, high-energy leadership, and engineering execution to our Startup-focused team. You will be instrumental in ensuring we drive the right strategy in region, ultimately delivering increased momentum and success in the India Startup market. You will use your knowledge of the Startup ecosystem, solution development and emerging technology trends to ensure these Startups are successful in their solution delivery and are on track to scale fast.

Responsibilities

Your areas of responsibility include:

Working with key stakeholders to collaboratively build ‘The Plan’, using your analytical skills to ensure the most impactful Startups receive the right enablement on their journey

Work closely with FTA engineers in addressing solution needs and driving success with their Azure solution deployments

Identify opportunities where we can do better for these Startups, incrementally driving improvement across our program and delivery, ultimately delivering increased impact

Maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders across engineering, sales, services and partner teams, leading and executing a business rhythm that ensures pattern of challenge, opportunity and potential course correction are highlighted

Coach team members and mentor others in planning, organizing, and coordinating work

Evangelize and teach others to reach beyond existing solutions and technologies to incorporate new ideas

Be the voice of Startups within FTA WW, ensuring we create and maintain regular communication rhythms like contributions to newsletters, success stories & flipbooks

Attend and contribute to subsidiary review meetings & provide feedback to improving engineering contributions and product feedback with Azure BG/PG stakeholders. Track and maintain program hygiene to ensuring all metrics are tracked and reported meticulously

Qualifications

Successful Candidate Competencies:

Real day-to-day Startup-facing experience and empathy, ideally having worked directly for one or more Startups, or in a role that provides enablement to this partner type

Experience leading and running a service delivery program, formulating rhythm of business, driving operational improvement, delivering broad & targeted communications, and defining measures of success

Exceptional ability to communicate ideas effectively with executives and engineering teams

Assembling, leading and working within strong cross-functional groups and matrixed team environments

Demonstrated skills and abilities to consistently create an amazingly positive experience for Startups

Track record of problem-solving ranging from conceptualization to implementation

Ability to prioritize and manage multiple workstreams and drive clarity for FTA engineers

Real-world smart, logical and able to learn new areas quickly

Familiarity with the culture influence and needs of our India Startups

Qualifications Recommendations:

5+ years of direct partner facing experience, conversant with senior IT professionals, backed by a deep understanding of their solution needs

Proven ability to lead, manage, build and deliver business results through an engineering or professional services team

Deep technical proficiency in one or more cloud technologies

Microsoft Azure experience preferred

Program Management, Project Management, Business Management or Delivery Management experience preferred

Consulting background a plus

Experience working in the India region, with a depth understanding of the India Startup ecosystem specifically

Located in India

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of direct partner facing experience or management consulting, with depth understanding of India Startup ecosystem

Proficiency in technical concepts including cloud technology and Microsoft Azure

We are looking forward to meeting you!

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 every two years.

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