Partner Development Management jobs at Microsoft in Taiwan, Taoyuan City

• 10+ years of experience in Sales, Partner/Channel development, business development, alliance management in the technology industry
  • Experience articulating technology platform strategy and solutions with a great proficiency
  • Good candidate will be inclusive and collaborative, drive teamwork and cross-team alignment and will have strong relationship management and solution development skills
  • Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small audiences.
  • Strategic thinker who drives for impact. Strong candidates with problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA desired.

• Sales Leadership

• Partner Success

• : Create strategic business objectives and partnership plans, coordinate partner prioritization and growth, ability to set clear goals/timelines for the business to achieve or exceed on revenue/metric targets and drive execution against agreed plans. Demonstrate the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

• Focus on Performance Management with partners

This new& Program LandingProgram Manager rolefunctions to deliver strategic programs and transformation initiatives across SE&O Asia.As theATU Enablement & Program Landing Program Manager, you willbe responsible fordesigning, operationalizing, and managing strategic programs aligned to fiscal year priorities, while also owning thelanding model. You will partner closely withAsia andThis role requires strong program management, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to lead at scale across people, processes, and technology. You will act as a thought leader, coach, and orchestrator—energizing teams, removing roadblocks, and enabling business and cultural transformation.

• , Marketing, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years in marketing, program management, cloud services, or related sales roles.

• Strong understanding of Microsoft sales processes, cycles, and best practices.

• Demonstrated ability to design and execute programs with measurable business impact.

Program Management & Execution

• Design, operationalize, and manage enablement programs aligned with SE&O Asia and ATU priorities.

• Lead planning and orchestration of cross-functional programs, ensuring alignment with One Microsoft priorities.

• Establish robust project management practices and execution plans,leveragingdata tomonitorperformance and mitigate risks.

• Serve as a program subject matter expert and liaison between field and corporate teams.

Transformation &Program Landing

• Own theAsiachange strategy and plan, including fiscal year planning and in-year initiatives.

• Develop and execute the landing model for SE&Oinmarket

• Partner with Asia& Areachangev-teams to scalelast-mileexecution and adoption.

• MCEM,program strategies and provide feedback for optimization.

• Partner with field leadership to ensure consistent communication, readiness, and alignment on shared outcomes.

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Insights, Feedback & Sales Enablement

• Leverage data and insights tomonitorprogram performance and inform sales strategy.

• Establish feedback rhythms with field and corporate teams to drive continuous improvement.

• Drive adoption of solution plays by integrating sales and marketing efforts across segments.

• Engage with the partner ecosystem to amplify program impact and support execution.

• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 8+ years' experience in project management

• OR equivalent experience.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

• 4+ years financial management experience.

• Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification.

• Drives and maintains obligations to customer across the delivery lifecycle including envisioning, solution development, delivery planning, cloud consumption and usage, delivery management. Leads or participates in steering committee meetings with strategic customers to discuss progress toward delivery success.

• Contributes to consumption activities, through others (e.g., Customer Success resources), for customers by identifying blockers to consumption goals and enabling customers, through internal teams, to get the full value of their purchases. Holds accountability for project delivery forecast.

• Collaborates with Sales to support contract setup, signature, compliance, and execution from deal approvals to invoicing and closure. Manages areas of fiscal responsibility within project portfolio, staying within budget while driving engagement profitability and risk management.

• Supports relationships with key stakeholders in the customer portfolio to ensure service delivery is on track and issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed. Communicates current view of delivery to customer stakeholders, as appropriate.

• Engages with customer stakeholders to develop partnerships, leveraging broad technical expertise. Manages escalations or ensures resolution of escalations with customer stakeholders through tailored corrective action (e.g., education) and overcomes ambiguous situations as needed. Learns to leverage project sponsors and internal network to influence stakeholders and resolve situations.

• Drives customer satisfaction by engaging with customers stakeholders in a positive manner, reviewing and analyzing customer feedback, and leveraging trusted relationships with key internal resources to act as the voice of the customer. Manages expectations with political sensitivity by leading Success Expectation discussions with customer, and documenting, executing, and monitoring through customer and partner experience (CPE).

• Adheres to project compliance standards (e.g., confidentiality, privacy) and requirements of the contract and accommodates customer compliance standards, including managing compliance-related complexities (e.g., high sensitivity to confidentiality). Champions compliance by contributing to knowledge sharing across teams to build compliance capability of others.

• Orchestrates and oversees a broad range of project metrics on midsize to large projects with high visibility (e.g., Vice President-level). Proactively ensures adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs) and provides strategic direction to drive success throughout project lifecycle.

• Proactively manages risks and issues within projects of standard complexity, leveraging technical knowledge and previous experience to evaluate risks, perform qualitative analyses (e.g., probability, impact, urgency), create risk management plans, establish processes, and work with cross-functional groups and leaders to mitigate identified risks. Contributes to recovery efforts and ensures tools are updated. Manages issue closure as a high priority.

• Ensures timely completion and quality of deliverables (e.g., documents) and tracking of agreed upon metrics for projects of standard complexity by applying quality management techniques (e.g., benchmarking, interviews) for collecting data. Uses analyses to identify solutions to systemic issues.

• Discusses and confirms Microsoft change control processes at kickoff with customer. Anticipates changes and proactively addresses by probing to ensure change can happen smoothly early in the process. Tests process before initiating formal change.

• Manages finances for projects with mid-size to large scopes and budgets by balancing funding and resources across workstreams, performing analyses, and leveraging cost management experience and expertise. Aims to reduce cost and improve delivery margin without impact to quality or customer experience and understands impact of decisions on the broader business (e.g., profits and losses [P&L], accrual-based accounting).

• Manages stakeholder communications on project health, issues, and financial performance for mid-size to large deals throughout entire project lifecycle, tailoring communications to the audience. Tracks and maintains customer deliverables.

• Demonstrates accountability for the financial health of a project or program (e.g., revenue attainment, accurate forecasting, cost management, and utilization, skills, and capacity planning). Identifies opportunities to accelerate and drive consumption and delivery. Owns and drives backlog risk management. Drives incremental business on top of existing projects and programs through next step proposals, conducts customer discussions related to next stage proposal (NSP) and other opportunities. Engages in the pursuit cycle to ensure deals are structured appropriately. Supports and contributes to rhythm of business (ROB) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) forecasting.

• Looks for or creates opportunities to maximize timely cloud consumption through current deliveries. Identifies new opportunities with customers and facilitates follow up conversations with customers on Consumption both strategically and operational, and to accelerate delivery or prevent delivery delays.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in structuring and negotiating complex strategic alliances or acquisitions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 12+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR Master's/Advanced Degree in Business, Sciences, or related field AND 10+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in the technology industry OR in a technical role (e.g., IT, Engineering).
• Industry experience in driving Shopping or Payments Partnerships

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 28, 2025.

Partner & Customer Focus

• Leverages internal and external network to develop new strategic relationships. Develops relationships as a trusted advisor with key stakeholders. Works cross-functionally on internal strategy and works with v-teams to deliver alignment on objectives and outcomes.
• Articulates the value of Microsoft solutions, leveraging knowledge of customer and partner business priorities and/or drivers to influence decision making. Looks across opportunities to identify and address broad issues and trends.

Market Signal

• Develops processes and channels for information gathering and reporting, including synthesizing key insights and trends gathered from engagements for executive consumption.

Partnership Strategy

• Formulates partnership strategy for Shopping & Payments growth priorities with input from relevant stakeholders and creates business value propositions based on partner and company needs.
• Builds and utilizes internal & external network with a diverse set of stakeholders to identify and validate unique opportunities across business areas. Provides input into recommendations on partners.
• Positions the Microsoft value proposition versus competitors and works with stakeholders to influence the build/buy/partner decision to meet customer needs, leveraging knowledge of Microsoft and customer issues in conjunction with product/industry teams to establish a foundation for future opportunities in competitive situations through collaboration.
• Provides insight on industry and/or competitive trends and drives action based on insights.
• Drives deals to increase growth and achieve desired outcomes, anticipating potential issues. Encourages customers and partners to apply and amend a value proposition in order to create a partnership. Influences internal stakeholders and partners and promotes the value of opportunities.

Negotiation

• Represents Microsoft in key customer and partner interactions, and defines the deal structure for scalable and durable solutions to complex business opportunities.
• Leverages deep understanding of risks, rewards, and negotiation skills to manage broad engagements across all business functions.
• Provides breakthrough ideas and collaborates to close strategic or high-impact opportunities in order to scale the business (e.g., cross-company, cross-product deals).
• Provides coaching and support to less experienced colleagues as a go-to resource for negotiation.

Deal Management/Governance

• Develops plans for managing deals, including communications, and reporting with Microsoft stakeholders. Resolves blocking issues using known techniques.
• Collaborates with customers, partners, and Microsoft colleagues to develop post-deal governance and ensure design, communication, and alignment in creation and implementation of execution plans across a portfolio of deals within a particular domain.
• Ensures customers and partners are prepared for implementation.
• Captures and shares learnings to improve future pipeline and business value communication.

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In this role, you will havework at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and investmentpartnering with incubators, venture capital firms, and government-backed organisations to help strategic ISVs innovate faster, launchnew solutions, and expand into new markets.

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We’re looking for a strategic and collaborative individual who thrives in complex, multicultural environments and can influence stakeholders at all levels within an organisation. To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

• Established track record in solution sales, with the ability to drive strategic partner engagements and commercial outcomes.

• Technical proficiency in software development, supported by Azure or equivalent cloud certifications.

• Familiarity with the Cloud and AI landscape in the local market, as well startup ecosystems in the UAE.
• Experience building long-term engagement strategies with external stakeholders, including investment organisations and incubators.
• Regular interaction, and influencing, of executive-level individuals within external organisations.

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• and prioritise high-potential ISVs for recruitment,leveraging

• Drive targeted partner recruitment aligned toCloud&AIsolutions, and industry priorities, with a focus on competitive differentiation.

• Engage C-suite executives and build trusted relationships through regular communications and structured rhythms of business.

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• Facilitate product development workshops and guide partners through architecture design, Well Architected Framework reviews, and incentive adoption.

• Launch transactable solutions on Azure Marketplace, supporting partners with go-to-market strategies, promotional activities, and co-sell enablement.

• Manage end-to-end marketplace activation, including onboarding pathways, stakeholder engagement, and issue resolution.

• Track and deliver key performance indicators including new ISV adds, Azure solutions, pipeline generation, marketplace billed sales, and Copilot design

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Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
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• 7+ years’experienceinsoftware developmentwith C++.
• 7+ years’ experience in post-silicon SoC or system validation or diagnostic/stress test content development.
• Experience with one or more of these: DMAs, PCIe, Memory (DDR, HBM), Network Controllers, Image decoders.

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.

• Experience inbuildsystems such asCMakeandfamiliarity with CI/CD systems.
• Knowledge of power and thermal profiling, TDP/PnP, and PVT characterization.
• Knowledge ofor experience withAI models/kernelssuch NCCL and Mistral.
• Experience with Cuda or GPU or tensor-based programming.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 21st, 2025.

• compute-intensive and highly performant test applications running onthe Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Accelerator (MAIA) hardware systems, focusing on PCIe, Memory, back-end network & TDP workloads

• Design and develop workload profiling and analysis tools that capture and benchmark the runtimes of variouscomputeblocksand/or hardware accelerators.

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Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure/cybersecurity technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure/cybersecurity technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, systems administration, network operations, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure/cybersecurity technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).
• 6+ years experience leading technical projects.
• Technical Certification(s) in Cloud Security or Cybersecurity Technology(ies).

Business Impact

• Leads the adoption of Microsoft Security offerings based on analysis/differentiation of Microsoft and competitor products to influence the industry-wide direction for specific architecture(s).
• Drives their team in operating and optimizing complex and high-impact situations for strategic customers/partners in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Anticipates and manages business and technical risks, and adapts methodology and applies governance to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks.
• Adheres to quality assurance standards and calculates risks while ensuring excellence in the design and/or delivery of solutions.
• Applies broad business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and resolve identified constraints. Shapes and enhances customers' requirements.
• Proactively uses deep knowledge of the offerings, practices, products, services, solutions, and value propositions of Microsoft and its competitors in customer/partner conversations and to propose and coach others to develop new solutions to scale across multiple customers/partners while demonstrating the business case and presenting alternative scenarios.
• Strategic Sales Enablement by activating transformational deals, providing architectural guidance, resolving technical blockers, and enhancing solution design. Your work will directly contribute to workload consumption and revenue impact.
• Provides thought leadership to help drive technical solution clarity, design, development, and deployment (including with and through partner technical stakeholders).
• Empower innovation through technical innovation workshops, tech briefings, and envisioning sessions to build technical intensity across partner teams. By collaborating with engineering and product teams, you’ll help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies and shape partner offerings that align with both business goals and technical requirements.
• Champion technical excellence guiding partners through architecture design sessions, proof-of-concepts, and MVP builds. You’ll ensure that solutions follow Microsoft’s Cloud and AI best practices and are optimized for performance, scalability, and security.
• Thought Leadership & Stakeholder Management, building long-term engagements with our strategic partners, influencing their adoption of Microsoft security technologies; developing deep technical relationships with CXOs and fostering executive alignment to support joint success.
• Partner Enablement & Business Acumen coaching partner technical teams to ensure pre-sales, deployment, and consumption are embedded in solution development. You’ll help partners build resilience to technical challenges, navigate competitive landscapes, and translate technical concepts into business value.

Partner Centricity

• Develops and expands existing impactful relationships with customer and partner architects, C-level technical decision makers (TDMs), and business stakeholders (to the extent that the customer/partner will call for consultation without being prompted).
• Provides direction to TDMs and builds the bridge between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Uncovers, aggregates, and synthesizes data about customer/partner business, complex technical requirements and issues (e.g., involving great length or tenacity to resolve), and various technical strategies being proposed.
• Addresses requirements/issues/strategies with win-win technical architecture(s) and demonstrates and proves the capability and value of those solutions through design collaboration sessions with the customer/partner.
• Acts as the voice of the partner by seeking feedback, insights, and identifying resources across territories to add and prioritize.
• Identifies and directs attention to multiple, strategic opportunities (e.g., launch deals) that align with revenue goals, and orchestrates growth of solution utilization pipeline with partners.
• Leads assistance with partner and sales teams to bring clarity to specific, complex opportunities through proof of concept and technical pre-sales support.
• Understands and anticipates solution area-specific market opportunities (e.g., competitor insights) and proactively leads initiatives to address them by supporting, assembling, and leading a v-team.
• Influences, challenges, and supports partners in developing scalable offerings, practices, products, and solutions, and investing and adopting new technologies at scale of the customer.
• Maintains active visibility in solution area-specific communities both to build credibility in internal/partner work and information sharing (e.g., technical updates, public facing roadmap) and to influence partners.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders (e.g., engineering, sales) to provide field-based insights related to products/solutions related to functioning, pricing, implementation, and other areas.

Technical Leadership

• Leads and may assemble virtual teams around security technologies and customer/partner challenges by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape.
• Demonstrates deep cybersecurity knowledge and drives recognition for Microsoft solutions through presentations and engagements with external audiences. Participates in external technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, Webcasts, blogs, hackathons) and shares learnings across internal teams.
• Connects gaps and patterns across business and technology areas, and drives changes and improvements to existing partner intellectual property (IP), technologies, and/or processes that enable our security solutions to scale across customers/partner. Drives consumption acceleration, as well as IP reuse and best practice sharing. Develops and contributes to the company stock of structured frameworks and methodologies.
• Proactively identifies gaps through delivery, communicating those gaps to others (e.g., Leadership, managed intellectual property [MIP], Design, and Governance), and leveraging business experience to prioritize efforts.