Responsibilities
Own the AI Inferencing portfolio automation and tooling roadmap, including the vision, priorities, and sequencing for new tools, features, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Assess current processes, tools, and workflows to find gaps, manual effort, handoffs, and chances to apply automation or AI.
Build and drive a strategy to connect data across CO+I and partner organizations so we have a single source of truth, fewer reconciliation steps, and better decision-making.
Own intake and prioritization of new tool and feature requests. Use clear criteria to keep engineering resources focused on the projects with the highest business impact.
Define business and functional requirements, user stories, and success metrics, and turn operational needs into clear, actionable specifications for engineering partners.
Define user interface and user experience requirements so tools are intuitive, efficient, and adopted by the people who use them.
Plan and manage user acceptance testing. Coordinate test teams, set acceptance criteria, triage issues, and confirm release readiness.
Partner with engineering, data, planning, deployment, and operations teams to align on data definitions, system integrations, and dependencies.
Drive adoption and change management for new tools and processes, including communications, training, and feedback loops.
Measure and report the impact of automation and tooling investments, such as time saved, data quality, cycle-time reduction, and user adoption, to leadership audiences.
Simplify complex technical and data topics into clear recommendations and tradeoffs that support leadership decisions.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Other Requirements
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
4+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Product Management, Datacenter Operations, Engineering, Business Systems, Data/Analytics, or related disciplines.
Experience identifying process inefficiencies and driving automation, digital transformation, or workflow redesign initiatives.
Experience defining user requirements for new tools or features.
Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes and drive alignment across organizations without direct authority.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to leadership audiences.
Experience with hyperscale cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, datacenter delivery, or large-scale technology deployment programs.
Experience owning a product or automation roadmap, including requirements definition, backlog management, and prioritization across competing stakeholder requests.
Knowledge of datacenter infrastructure, including space, power, and cooling systems.
Experience in data science, data engineering, analytics, or business intelligence, such as SQL, Power BI, data modeling, or pipeline concepts.
Experience leading change management and driving tool adoption across large, distributed user communities.
Passion for removing manual work and building scalable, data-driven ways of working
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Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
- https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
