דרושים Ru'aa Program Partner Development Management Internship Opportunities ב-Microsoft ב-Taiwan, Taoyuan City

As a Software Engineering PhD Intern, you will work with teammates to solve problems and build innovative software solutions. You will apply your passion for customers and product quality as you provide technical guidance to Technical Program Managers and Product Managers. You will learn and adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods, and processes to leverage in your solutions. This opportunity will enable you to advance your career by designing, developing, and testing next-generation software that will empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Required Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field during the academic term immediately before the internship.

• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

• At least one year of programming experience in an object-oriented language.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms.
• Academic/research experience with distributed systems, network architecture, operating systems, and/or related topics.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5610.00 - $11010.00 per month. 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 $7270.00 - $12030.00 per month.

• Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.

• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.

• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.

• Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.

• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• 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.

• Build andmaintain

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.

is committed to advancing cutting-edge AI technologies that enable deeper understanding and interaction with people, objects, and environments in the 3D real world. Our research spans a diverse range of areas, including computer vision, generative AI, 3D perception, and robotic action learning, among others relevant to Embodied AI. By pushing the boundaries of these domains, we aim to develop innovative solutions that bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds, empowering AI systems to perceive, comprehend, and navigate complex real-world scenarios.

Required Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Robotics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related STEM field.
• Research experience inembodied AI, robotics, AI models, natural language, computer vision, demonstrated for example through research in a related PhD program and/or publications in conferences or scientific journals.
• Hands-on experience with Python and modern deep learning frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas clearly.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to physically work from Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo (Japan) for the duration of the internship.
• Must obtain permission from your academic advisor and commit to at least four months of internship.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Proven software engineering skills, evidenced by professional experience, internships, and impactful open-source contributions.
• Practical experience with handling data and robot learning, such as experience in Vision-Language-Action modelsor Hand Object Interactions.
• Familiarity with1)robot learning for robot hand manipulationor 2) hand pose estimation techniques or 3) reasoning techniques (Chain-of-Thought) used in LLM.

• Contribute to a high-impact research agenda within the context of a highly collaborative research culture alongside a team of experts in Embodied AI.
• Design and implement experiments to test new hypotheses and validate research findings.
• Communicate research findings to an interdisciplinary research team.
• Prepare technical papers, presentations, and open-source releases of research code.

• 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.

• Embodies our

a hands-on, entrepreneurial Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) with deepin responsible AI risks and mitigation strategies, and a drive to build innovative solutions that enable responsible AI at scale.

In this role, you willtools, frameworks, and processesand conduct assessmentsYou will collaborateacross policy, research, engineering, and operationstranslate responsible AI principles into practicalthat integrateinto AI development workflows.

Success in this role requires a proven technical foundation, understanding of generative AI use cases,and fluency in responsible AI measurement and mitigation techniques. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguity,and influencing organizational practices

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND6+years experiencein engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ years of experience with AI systems
• Experience in Responsible AIand/or AI safety

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis,OR product development
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

• Experience with Generative AI, especially in emerging risk areas
• Experience using AI tools
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex programs or initiatives without direct authority

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• tools, frameworks, and processes, scaleyour domainexpertisein responsible AI risk assessments, mitigations, generative AI, and customer use cases while building trusted relationships with product teams and cross-functional stakeholders

• dentifypatterns and gaps across use cases, assessments, and requirements, definingnew solutionsand collaborating with engineering and policy partners tosolve problems.

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