Do you want to play a critical and strategic role in driving Microsoft Azure’s success in building a robust partner ecosystem that leverages strong co-sell opportunities?  Do you like taking ideas from a rough concept to fully operational programs running on a global scale?  Do you get energized with the thought of leading a team tasked with overcoming challenges that others perceive as insurmountable? If so, then the role of the Offer Type Manager in our Commercial Marketplace Services (CMS) organization may be right for you.

About our team:

CMS is a diverse, collaborative, solutions-oriented team committed to infusing diversity and inclusion principles into our hiring, our communication, our services, and the way we connect with our partners and Customers.  The CMS vision is to provide onboarding and enablement services to facilitate partner and customer success in the commercial marketplace. The CMS team, are comprised of industry, marketplace, and technical experts, applying their specialized skills to empower partners to achieve more through the commercial marketplace. The Offer Type Manager, specifically, as part of the Offer Type Management team within CMS, enables partner success across the end-to-end certification journey.

What our team will do for you:

Give you the opportunity to gain new experience and improve upon your strengths

Support who you are as your authentic self

Make career development a consistent priority

Champion your successes at every level of our leadership

Responsibilities

As an Offer Type Manager, you will run the certification and certification support service for our COMPUTE offer types (Azure VMs, Azure Apps and Containers) within our commercial marketplace.  You will own the end-to-end Marketplace certification experience and will be required to drive the health and performance of certification of offers submitted by Marketplace partners for these specific offer types.  You will directly manage any critical business projects or engineering releases that will impact these offer types, and ultimately leverage your expertise in this area to influence the Marketplace strategy.

 Furthermore, you will be accountable for specific certification SLA’s and metrics for the offer type that is owned by the service manager.  You will also lead offer type v-teams and collaborate with all relevant stakeholders to drive partner success in the area of Commercial Marketplace offer certification, in order to influence prioritization and strategic direction of the offer type amongst various stakeholders, including product groups.

In this role, there are many stakeholders you will need to collaborate with to define and execute on people, processes and technology to enable commercial Marketplace to achieve monumental growth and partner success.  Stakeholders include various Product groups, Marketplace Engineering and Marketplace Business groups as well as Commercial Marketplace Operations Core Services and C+E Engineering Operations teams for delivering quality experiences for your offer types.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

8+ years' experience in technical or operational program management experience working with product or platform engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s in engineering or related field.

Azure fundamentals technical certification, related cloud architecture technical certification

Technical certification related to cloud architecture solutions, especially for the VM, Azure Apps and Containers offer type that the role will be responsible for.

Existing understanding of Containers and templating

Strategic thinking and strong problem-solving ability

Ability to navigate a complex organization to reach a goal or objective, effective at positioning gives/gets, and has outstanding executive presence and presentation skills

Ability to engage and influence product and platform engineering teams to influence publisher experience and customer experience for those offer type categories.

Proven communication skills to effectively drive recommendations and land priorities across senior executives and across organizational boundaries 

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.