Senior Program Manager

Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group is at the forefront of developing ground breaking technologies for our next-generation hardware products. We lead innovations in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Large Language Models and Deep Learning. Our focus is to envision, plan, and deliver the next generation of cutting-edge AI algorithms in Generative Image and Natural Language Understanding on upcoming devices and operating systems.

As a Senior Program Manager on our team, you will play a key role in taking our cutting-edge research into applications that provide delightful experiences for our users worldwide. You will collaborate closely with teams across Microsoft to define the next generation AI experience for Windows customers. You will work closely with a diverse team to deliver high-quality, maintainable solutions in a dynamic environment.  

The successful candidate will have a growth mindset and high integrity as well as proven program management experience in delivering complex and/or large-scale projects with cross-functional and geo-distributed teams.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Roadmap and delivery: driving overall program and project roadmap, schedule, release and adjustments, driving resolution of technical and architectural challenges.
• Backlog, dependencies, and requirements: in collaboration with research and engineering, maintaining prioritized backlog and driving accountability of cross team dependencies and requirements. 
• Cross org alignment: working with immediate team, stakeholders, and teams across organizations, roles, and geographies to align on shared goals and OKRs. 
• Rhythm of Business and reporting process: consolidate, contribute, and review all relevant data views and updates for the various reporting forums (updates, deep dives, business, and service reviews). 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Extensive experience in the software industry, with experience in technical program management or in similar roles.   
• Experience across the complete product cycle, from initial design to execution and release process. 
• Experience in software projects based on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including articulating complex issues and solutions.   
• Solid project, stakeholder, and partner management with experience in working with large-scale, cross-functional, geo-distributed teams. 
• Innate curiosity and the ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous and fluid environment. We look for self-starters and innovators with a positive, can-do attitude and bias for action.  
• Affinity towards user-centered design, product thinking, and innovation on behalf of the customer.   

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.

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