Responsibilities

• Identify key friendly and non-friendly technical leaders & communities in Israel
• Build mutually beneficial relationships with individuals and communities worldwide, in partnership with other Regional Cloud Advocate PMs and Cloud Advocates. 
• Work cross-organizationally with marketing, professional, academic, startup and product teams to build and execute local developer community strategy for diverse developer audiences. Create regional toolkits and documentation of outreach efforts. 
• Research and report on your region’s community landscape, partnering closely with our Cloud Advocates to discover, co-ordinate and strengthen engagements with relevant individuals and communities. 
• Measure the efficacy of programs through qualitative and quantitative means, working closely with both our analytics teams and our Cloud advocates, to create better regional intelligence that can power insights for our content, events or advocacy efforts. 

Qualifications

• • At least 3+ years of working with developer-focused events, content and communities. 
  • An innate understanding of and relationship with developer communities in your local ecosystem (particularly those outside the Microsoft ecosystem) and what excites them. 
  • First-hand experience in startup-like environments where dealing with ambiguity, taking initiative and juggling multiple “top priorities” is par for the course. 
  • Exceptional cross-organizational skills. 
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills (C1-level or higher) in English and at least one official language in Israel.  
  • Ability to gracefully navigate, listen, synthesize, influence, de-escalate, and re-route issues across the organization chart. 
  • A commitment to eliminating information asymmetry and communicating fearlessly across our management chain. 
  • Highly motivated self-starter with a strong sense of self who relies on their work ethic, active sharing and collaboration to produce quality and quantity. 
  • Problem solver who constantly seeks to refine, iterate, and improve on efforts to arrive at sustainable solutions vs isolated fixes. 
  • A passion for developers and nerd culture and digital subcultures. 
  • A belief that organizations and industries are best when they are diverse and inclusive, and a commitment to ensuring that everything we do reflects that belief. 
  • Experience working remotely and collaborating effectively across distributed teams or time-zones. 
  • Thrives in an ever-changing, open, inclusive, and feedback-encouraged environment. 
  • Exceptional ability to create programs and systems to scale. 
  • Travel as required to local community and Reactor events. 

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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.