Senior Program Manager - Developer Tools for the Gig Economy at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager - Developer Tools for the Gig Economy Details
March 7, 2019, 6:41 p.m.
Engineering
Individual Contributor
Full-Time
Redmond, WA
Do you ever imagine what a developer's world might look like if they could count on support from the top talent for a given task, whether that is for training purposes, pair programming, outsourcing beta testing, writing documentation, or customer support and more? Do you imagine how a team lead might expand their scale and work, and meet their deadlines if they could include talented, trusted freelancers to scale their team or drive an outcome or deliverable, like security testing, or handling customer feedback, or building an app or component? Imagine wanting to learn how to develop apps, or learn a specific technology and needing mentorship help? The "gig-economy" and developer freelance world is expanding rapidly. Teams and individuals are beginning to harness the power of the freelancer to acquire and use talented workers to fulfill their development aspirations. Imagine being able to immediately reach out to a talented, matched engineer during coding or code reviews, even when they
We are looking to expand our learning, understanding, wants and needs of scenarios that are dramatically enhanced by the crowd of talented developers. In this role, you'll uncover the biggest pain points facing developers and leads as they envision, research, experiment, build, tests, deploy and monitor their apps. You'll investigate the customer behavior, their needs, problems and aspirations. You'll uncover the signals and opportunities and drive that vision to conceptual designs, experiments, specs, and execution plans You'll define customer cohorts, recruit customers, lead customer development
Basic: At least 3+ years' Program Management experience in the software industry. At least 1 year of experience working in or with developer tools and services. At least 1 year of experience building apps, using developer tools and processes. At least 1 year of experience in customer development, user research and/or business opportunities. Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical discipline highly preferred. Knowledge of or experience in the Gig and freelance economy, of providers, hiring managers and developers of all profiles. Hands-on coding, knowledge