Sr. Customer Experience Program Manager - CTJ - Poly

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World's largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft's "Cloud First" mission. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide, and we are looking for passionate, high energy team members to help achieve that mission.

The AGC Business Alignment and Strategy (BAS) team is looking for the right candidate who wants to have a fundamental impact on how Microsoft's Cloud is deployed and operated for a specialized customer set, to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, and to bring a unique blend of strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out-of-the-box Systems Thinking to the team. If this sounds like you, keep reading!

We are looking for a mid-senior technical Customer Experience Program Manager (CxPM) with a balance of technical and business expertise, but who also demonstrates leadership and the capability to drive progress in large-scale, multi-disciplined programs. You should have strong industry and customer knowledge, the ability to influence others to achieve results, and have the presence to lead complex and time sensitive initiatives.

In this role, the successful candidate will partner closely with key stakeholders to understand industry and customer-identified demand, triage and drive programs focused on delivering specialized datacenter solutions in support of Government customers. These programs may support the leading edge of innovation and will include partnering with stakeholders to clarify business and technical requirements needed to drive pilots and other experiments that shape ongoing strategy in delivering new capabilities to our customers. You balance strong analytical and technical skills with the ability to influence execution teams within CO+I and spread across the rest of Microsoft.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Help differentiate Microsoft's Government Datacenter programs' competitive advantage by applying technical and Systems Thinking methodologies, along with industry-standard project and program management best practices.
• Partner with, and learn from, peers to identify opportunities for process improvement on cross-team process and requirements capture from RFP response through datacenter operations.
• Apply technical and competitive ecosystem knowledge to coordinate and help respond to customer RFP requests.
• Deliver projects with a focus on key performance indicators and business goals/impact, promoting clarity and motivation to the project team to execute on time, under budget, and in compliance, while driving high first-pass-quality with zero rework.
• Deliver on ambiguous projects with multiple stakeholders, unclear requirements and incomplete data.

Basic Qualifications:

• Technical degree (BS in Engineering, Networking, or CS) plus 2-3 years of project / program management experience
• Experience driving execution with multi-disciplinary engineering groups
• Mix of technical and program management skills and experience
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Familiarity with US Government compliance and building standards
• Must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of program management or cross-team leadership experience; self-motivated, confident working with senior level partners and comfortable working in a matrixed organization
• Strong collaborative program and project management skills
• Track record of coaching teams and mentoring others in planning, organizing and coordinating their work
• Technical program management experience managing scope, schedule, people, risk and communications
• Understanding of business and financial objectives and plans accordingly
• Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment

The ideal candidate possesses both basic and preferred qualifications listed above, as well as:

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree
• Exceptional problem identification and problem resolution skills
• Understanding of contract language

Customer Experience Program Mgmt IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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