Microsoft Director AI Silicon Product Management 

United States, Washington 

273770190

The SPARC organization within Azure drives advanced architecture and manages hardware roadmap planning and program management from concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. Well-defined and executed strategic planning ensures products meet the requirements for performance, features, and time-to-market. The ability to draw insights from a deep understanding of the cloud HW Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5 + years of product management experience in Silicon, AI or similar fields
• 5+ years of experience in a cross-functional role
• 2 + years of experience working with AI infrastructure

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

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

• Define product strategy, roadmap and product requirements for our next gen AI Silicon and platform
• Drive executive decision making for new investments, including competitive analysis, program goals and business requirements, architectural concepts, risk management strategies, financial analysis, schedule and hardware strategy.
• Drive technical projects from requirements including managing complex project schedules, removing roadblocks, and keeping processes running smoothly.
• Work with hardware architects, engineering, finance and business teams to develop and drive end to end program development.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to define, prioritize, and implement features, infrastructure, processes, and workflows.
• Identify and prioritize customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive gaps, and translate them into clear and actionable product requirements and specifications.
• Take end to end ownership of the product area and be a tireless voice of the customer, while ensuring business goals are met.
• Developing and maintaining a high level of technical proficiency in AI workload requirements.
• Be comfortable interacting with senior management, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process where it’s needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate.
• Drive adoption of silicon and platforms with customers: evangelize existing and future product solutions across internal and external customers.
• Work closely with datacenter business teams to drive adoption across the portfolio
• Work closely with SW and model teams to ensure product when delivered is a complete solution to accelerate adoption