Microsoft Senior Program Manager - Garage 

Serbia, Central Serbia, Belgrade 

978277315

REQURIED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree and proven experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• Proven experience managing multiple cross-functional and/or cross-team projects, demonstrating a high level of willingness to build on the work of others and to enable others to build on their work
• In-depth experience as a tech community builder, along with excellent collaboration skills and strong technical acumen
• Proven track record building, producing, and delivering impactful events, employee engagements, and/or experiments.
• In-depth experience developing and building key relationships and partnerships across internal technical teams and external entities and stakeholders
• Experience with public speaking to large audiences as well as leading small workshops

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience working with and building community in a technical context.
• Software development, and/or programming or hardware experience and working as a developer evangelist would benefit this role.
• Experience producing and delivering hackathons would be beneficial
• Experience creating and/or delivering employee programming.
• Deep experience in the innovation space with coaching experience helping small teams searching for product market fit.
• Ability to work through self-directed, ambiguous situations.

• Run the day-to-day, week-to-week operation of the Microsoft Garage including developing, curating, and delivering engagement and experiences to our employees, customers, and ecosystem partners.
• Lead the planning and execution of our Microsoft Global Hackathon and our other hackathons throughout the year.
• Develop, curate, and deliver engagements and experiences tailored to the needs and interests of our employees and leadership.
• Collaborate with worldwide Garage colleagues to produce and curate content and experiences to offer at your local site as well as to be shared across multiple global Garage sites.
• Forge partnerships and relationships with key ecosystem players such as local tech and civic leaders and the innovation community.
• Develop and deliver digital programming through scheduling and sourcing talks with internal and external speakers/guests and creating and documenting workshop or employee experiences.
• Support development and delivery of engagements or events for a variety of audiences that could include employees, teams, or external partners.