Responsibilities

Responsibilities  

• Establish new technical areas that enhance and exploit the cloud capabilities to drive growth in key industries.  
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, marketing, compliance and the field leadership to translate new concepts that are emerging from the research community into new products offerings through proof of concept demonstrations.   
• Establish partnerships across industries to help validate the concepts as well as ensure desirability of the end capabilities.   
• Drive large strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies.   
• Position Microsoft as a world leader in the technical areas the projects are focused in, both through direct communication to the community as well as technical achievement.  

• Lead a team of engineers to execute the projects, effectively utilizing resources internal to the team, but also establishing partnerships within the Microsoft community when applicable.   
• Avoid strategic surprise from technology development happening worldwide for the Azure Global organization.   
• Be a technical scout for the organization such that emerging opportunities are not missed.  

Qualifications

Qualifications  

Basic/ Required Qualifications:  

• 7+ years experience in research and translation of the research to product. 
• Demonstrated leadership of a large organization or community to achieve large goals bigger than a single project.   

Preferred Qualifications:  

• 10+ years of program, project or product management experience and (desired) deep industry experience working with one category or vertical  

• Demonstrated international leadership in a complicated, multidisciplinary technical field. 
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent industry experience  
• Strong track record of delivering services, creating exciting technical proof of concepts, and/or shipping products  

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. 
• Candidates must have an active US Government Secret or Top Secret security clearance and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph), or have an active TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. 
• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements. 

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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