Overview: Does thinking at hyper scale excite you? Do you love server hardware technology? Do you like working in a fast-paced organization poised for rapid expansion? If so, then the Microsoft Azure VM Sizes and Hardware team is the place for you. As Microsoft's cloud platform, Microsoft Azure is growing 100%+ quarter over quarter and the Microsoft Azure VM Sizes and Hardware team is delivering the platform that will drive the growth. Required Skills: Passion for new technology Strong understanding of onboarding new systems in zero downtime environments Excellent communication, collaboration, and negotiating skills. Ability to be customer centric, to build and foster relationships with internal and external customers. Excellent ability to prioritize, plan, and track large scale programs Demonstrated track-record of self-directed execution even when faced with ambiguity Ability to learn from setbacks and approach feedback with a growth mindset. To be humble and teachable.
Primary Responsibility: Design and manage Azure VM families from requirements gathering through deployment in each of our regions Drive execution and delivery of new VM families and supporting hardware across dozens of teams across our C and AI organization Build the go to market plans for our new VM families with our business planning, marketing and customer support teams Utilize strong project management methodologies in driving highly effective, predictable and repeatable processes while avoiding process for process sake Provide ongoing communication to key stakeholders and Azure Compute LT
Experience and Qualification: 4+ years of PM experience Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or related work experience Experience with customer requirements/workload data gathering and analysis a plus Experience with the design and creation of virtual machines a plus Experience with tracking hardware enablement programs a plus Broad, high-level understanding of system design a plus Experience with Microsoft Azure a plus "Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to