Microsoft Director Product Management- Storage Strategy Planning 

United States, Texas, Austin 

688861043

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?

Join our Hardware Strategy and Planning (HSP) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.

The HSP organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap 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.

As a Director of Product Management- Storage, Strategy and Planning,you will drive engagement with technology providers, understand their product portfolio and roadmap, work with internal partners and strategize how 1st and 3rd part technology solutions intercept Azure hardware infrastructure roadmap. The role will involve driving requirements with technology providers that enable the growth of the Azure cloud business and give it a competitive edge over other cloud service providers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Central processing unit, Memory, or Storage technology development.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud datacenter architecture

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Deep technical understanding of commodity storage technologies and knowledgeable on storage industry trends
• Deep technical understanding of server architecture, design, and development, with emphasis on power and performance analysis
• Proven customer obsession in prior roles where customer requirements were gathered and implemented into a product.
• Product Planning, Project Management, Product Management experience.
• Proven capabilities to drive positive business results by working across multiple organizations.
• Experience working in hardware Infrastructure Engineering Groups
• Ability to build relationships and influence in a matrix organization.
• Highly effective written and oral communication skills with proven ability to present to a wide range of cross-functional partners across different teams and levels of the organization.
• Familiarity and previous experience developing programs through phase gate process

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 12, 2024.

• Collaborate and drive efforts across multiple engineering groups (business units) within Microsoft and external technology providers and organizations; success will be achieved by collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet or exceeding business unit requirements with technical solutions, as well as developing and putting in place processes and methods that bring about efficient collaboration and decision making within Microsoft and Azure.
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• Deep dive into storage technology and Infrastructure offerings and trends, quantitatively compare various offerings and develop recommendations and strategy that give a unique edge to Azure hardware infrastructure.
• Perform roadmap scenario modeling, financial modeling, and market analysis for the recommended storage HW platform factoring in performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs.
• Drive internal alignment on storage hardware technology platform plan of record.
• Recommend internal and external process improvements and excellence conversations cross functionally to ensure we have optimized processes and aligned across partner teams.
• Create, maintain, and effectively disseminate project communication to stakeholders.

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