Do you want to be part of the team building Microsoft Azure? Are you passionate about cloud computing, distributed systems and working with open-source technology at massive scale? Do you want to build the next generation of the fastest storage in the public cloud? Are you excited about the opportunity to drive tremendous business growth and innovation in Azure? The Azure Storage team delivers Virtual Disks, File Systems and Object Storage for IaaS, containers, serverless, baremetal, and more. These capabilities form the Azure Storage foundations for running cloud-native workloads on Azure and the Edge. You can be part of a strategic team with Microsoft-wide and industry-wide impact. #azstoragepm

Responsibilities

We are looking for an energetic, customer-obsessed and self-starter Program Manager to help take our storage technologies to the next level.

Job responsibilities will involve:

• Listen and understand customer requirements, and translate them into viable product roadmaps, strategy, and motions with the ability to communicate with broad stakeholders
• Keep a close eye on open source and industry trends for product success
• Drive end to end product development including product specification, user experience, go to market plan and success metrics.
• Deepen the integration of Azure Storage with Azure Container offerings to provide a simple and frictionless experience
• Grow our partner ecosystem to provide unique offerings on Azure
• Drive workload certifications and generate best practice whitepapers for customer adoption

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Demonstrated customer focus and end-to-end thinking across product areas
• Ability to identify out-of-box solutions and identifying opportunities.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and coordination skills are a must for this role.
• Strong, demonstrated technical problem solving and communication skills; an ability to define common requirements across a wide range of diverse customers; and a passion for simplicity in design and user experience
• Demonstrated understanding and experience with system architecture and optimization with a track record of successful solution delivery (e.g., implementing a solution that drives results)
• Critical thinking skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous problems

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of professional technical program or product management experience
• 2+ years designing, shipping, and operating large-scale, public cloud services
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Advanced Sciences or equivalent relevant experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or related disciplines
• Experience building or integrating with Kubernetes, and other container technologies
• Hands on experience running, participating, or contributing to a technical OSS community project
• Experience with storage, filesystems, distributed systems, and virtualization technologies
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Expertise in common open-source performance assessment suites

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.

Additional Details:

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.