Are you looking to join Microsoft’s fastest growing business? Does rolling up your sleeves to understand customer challenges and identifying their needs seem second nature to you? We have a compelling opportunity for you to consider.
Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. Azure differentiates itself as the only hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud with a true hybrid story. Customers and analysts recognize Azure’s tremendous momentum which continues month over month. To help customers achieve their goals and host all their workloads on the cloud, Azure uses a globally available foundational platform with the scale of the largest of largest services. Workloads range from “new born-in-the-cloud” services to “traditional” applications migrated from physical datacenters. All the rich platform services and capabilities of Microsoft's commercial cloud are built on this platform.
Azure Core team at IDC (India Development Center) delivers mission-critical infrastructure and management capabilities to customers across the globe which cut across Compute, Storage, Networking and Management. We are defining, and ultimately delivering quality customer experiences and solutions that power the world’s workloads.
In the era of ever-increasing cyber threats and dependencies, data protection is key for enterprises to run their production workloads on the cloud. Azure Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) services are on a mission to provide customers with assured protection for all their workloads (VMs, Databases, Containers, File Servers, Storage Services Data), running on any cloud (on-premises, edge, and Azure Cloud) and Hypervisors/Containers. Our data protection platform goes beyond just backups and disaster recovery to provide fit-for-purpose experiences for customers to manage threats like ransomware. Determining a scalable model for protection and allowing consistent management across all clouds is the key.
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
- You will lead teams to define significant business impact across the organization and track success criteria for multiple feature areas across divisions. You’ll also provide strategic direction in identifying long-term investment opportunities and will coach teams to engage partners to garner support for those feature areas.
- You will lead teams in defining a feature set and facilitate mid- and senior-level usability reviews with customers. You’ll lead teams to own the roadmap for multiple feature areas across divisions and will guide them to build golden configurations and drive scenario walkthroughs.
- You will provide expert insights to help teams scale Product Marketing by building marketing and roll-out plans, as well as coaching them to create customer support plans. You’ll also lead them to promote the feature areas they worked on and oversee team presentations at large events.
- You will provide expertise to help teams partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for technical needs in order to measurably improve product development in targeted areas. You’ll also coach teams to identify features to deprecate and guide them to manage customer communities and build trust with targeted customers across sectors.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years people management experience.
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 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management of software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years people management experience.
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