Microsoft Director Hardware Strategy Planning 

United States, Washington 

781260448

Strategic Planning and Architecture

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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 Hardware Infrastructure landscape and industry trends is critical in informing the roadmap and planning decisions. Deep technical understanding of our hardware architecture, workload modeling and analysis are necessary toinformed, data-driven decisions. Our hardware technology pathfinding work helps keep our product portfolio competitive by maturing new concepts for productization.Together these functions are able to create a strategic hardware and technology roadmap.

ategy and Planning, you willtechnology providers, understand their product portfolio and roadmap, work with internal partners and strategizenew memorytechnology solutions intercept Azure’s hardware infrastructure roadmap. The role will involve drivingfuture roadmaprequirements with technology providers that enable the growth of the Azure cloud business and give it a competitive edge over other cloud service providers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management

  • OR equivalent experience.

• 8+ years industry experience inCPU,Memoryor servertechnology development.

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/Additional Qualifications:

• BS in Electrical Engineering, ComputerEngineeringor similar field/experience.
• Knowledgeof memory subsystemarchitecture.
• Knowledge of memory technology,roadmapand industry trends.
• Knowledge ofcloud server technology or system architecture.
• Proven customer obsession in prior roles where customer requirements were gathered and implemented into a product.
• Product Planning or Project Management experience is desired.
• Proven capabilities to drive positive business results by working across multiple organizations.
• Effective presentation skills with the abilityto present to a wide range of cross-functional partners across different teams and levels of the organization.
• Ability to build relationships and influence in a matrix organization.
• Highly effective written and oral communication skills.
• Self-motivated, driven individual who can work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Familiarity andpreviousexperience developing programs through phase gate process is preferred.

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 November 20, 2024.

• Work with technology providers, understand their portfolios, partner with engineering and business groups and drive a competitive and executable hardware roadmap strategy for Azure hardware infrastructure.

• Deep dive intomemoryvendors’ technology offerings, quantitively compare technology options and produce recommendations and strategies that give a unique edge to Azure hardware infrastructure.

• business units andengineering team members to gather and definefuture requirements,server designobjectivesand business goals.

• Perform roadmap scenario modeling, financial modeling, and market analysis for the recommended HW platform factoring in performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs.

• Explore and evaluatenew technologiesand how they can beleveragedto meet product requirements.

• new technologiesinto cloud scale fleet.

• Recommend internal and external process improvements and excellenceconversationscross-functionally to ensure we haveoptimized

• maintainand effectivelydisseminateproject communication to stakeholders.
• Embody our