Are you interested in helping deliver a product targeted at a multi-billion unit market? This is a unique opportunity to bring your silicon architecture expertise and enable innovative product development. 

The Azure Sphere Silicon PM team is looking for a Program Manager to help enable Silicon partners to design, manufacture, and bring to market new generation of Azure Sphere certified chips. This role will help Azure Sphere scale to millions, if not billions of IoT devices in the future. Key characteristics of a Program Manager for this role include having a deep silicon architecture background, being a strong collaborator who can build relationships through trust, manage complex programs efficiently, and engage intentionally with kindness and inclusivity.

This team on Azure Sphere is responsible for ecosystem strategy, partner acquisition and onboarding, technical enablement and go to market execution for Azure Sphere chip enablement. If you enjoy silicon architecture, security, and technical collaboration with partners, this is the role for you. In this role you will not only work on enabling diverse silicon, but also have cross-team interactions across engineering, multiple orgs, product planning, silicon partners, and customers.

Billions of MCU based devices are shipped every year, and the Azure Sphere team is building a turnkey secured platform (Silicon, OS, and Services) for the Internet of things. Thousands of businesses are undergoing a digital transformation to MCU based devices, and Azure Sphere will safeguard that future! Our team members have unparalleled opportunity to rapidly learn new skill sets, build pioneering solutions, and get exposure to a wide array of technologies. To learn more about this exciting new product, please visit www.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-sphere.

Responsibilities

• Engage and enable silicon partners to create diverse and innovative Azure Sphere certified chips
• Educate partners on Azure Sphere silicon security requirements and drive architectural discussions
• Manage and communicate milestones, deliverables, and schedules between partners and Azure Sphere engineering team, driving alignment
• The candidate must be willing and able to travel (domestic and international)

Qualifications

Required

• 10+ years of experience in program management or related relevant experience
• A BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent technical experience across the full SoC design cycle with a focus on silicon architecture
• Experience working with partners or customers.

Preferred

• Excellent communication and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated ability to come up-to-speed quickly on a new technical domain
• Experience in early product development.
• Proven ability to influence business and technical decision makers.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity while partnering across organizations.

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 Secure Screen: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check and credit history analysis upon hire/transfer and every year thereafter.

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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