As we drive to be the leading cloud platform in the world, we are hiring an entrepreneurial Senior Program Manager to drive our cloud computing product strategy and messaging in the Energy industry. In this role, you will be working and having CXO level conversations with energy customers. You’ll be responsible for understanding, prioritizing, and driving customer requirements across engineering, getting the right partners engaged to build an ecosystem, leading a go-to-market v-team. You need to deeply understand the customer scenarios: how they think, how to talk with them to help drive the Microsoft field to successfully engage with customers at all levels in this industry, and how to align them with the critical ISV’s who drive this space.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Experience managing highly complex and large partnerships with both customers and ISV’s that have spanned global deployments and scope. 
• Managed C-Suite and Executive Team level relationships and governance structures across strategic customers. 
• Experience in sustainability in Energy with passion to resolve problems around carbon management and sequestration. 

Desired Skillset: 

• Exceptional executive presence/communication skills (both oral and written) capable of c-suite engagement.
• Highly skilled story teller capable of training at scale and evangelizing not only the opportunities that exist in this industry but also to formulate and share Microsoft’s vision for the future of Energy. 
• Coordinated and managed teams across MSFT ecosystem and partners to drive azure adoption at customer and partners.
• Experience in program and project management.
• Industry relationships including IT partner ecosystem and critical ISV’s 
• Cloud computing background with experience in moving industry workloads to the cloud from on-premise. 
• Experience working for a team that ships daily or weekly and runs cloud services. 
• High level understanding of Energy Industry, processes, IT Infrastructure & business workloads. 

BS in computer science and engineering; PhD and MS preferred or equivalence of years of working experience

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