Microsoft Strategic Hardware Planner Video Data Acceleration 

United States, Washington 

612713829

organization manageshardware roadmap fromell-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.Deep technical understanding of our hardware architecture, workload modeling and analysisare necessary toinformed, data-driven decisions.technology pathfinding workhelps keep ouroduct portfolio competitiveby maturing new concepts for productization. Together these functionsare able tocreate a strategic hardware and technology roadmap.

As theStrategic Hardware Planner for Video and Data Acceleration you will strategize how 1and 3part technology solutions intercept Azure hardware infrastructure roadmap.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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

  o OR equivalent experience.

• +yearsindustry experience in CPU,Accelerator,Memory, or Storage technology development.

• Knowledge of cloud datacenter architecture

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:

• Deep technical understanding of CPUand accelerator (ex. FPGA)architecture, design, and development, with emphasis on power and performance analysis

• altechnical understanding ofserver,storageand networkingsolution architecture at cloud scale.

• echnical understanding of GPUand Acceleratorarchitecture, design, and development, with emphasis on power and performance analysis, including software considerations

• inprior roles where customer requirements were gathered and implemented into a product.

• Product PlanningandProduct/ProjectManagement experience.

• and withdifferent levelsof the organization.

• Experience working in HW 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.

• Self-motivated, drivenindividualwho can work in a rapidly changing environment.

• Ability to work in an ambiguous business environment with competing business tasks.

• Familiarity andpreviousexperience developing programs through phase gate process

• Experience working with Microsoft Project or similar project management software.

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

You’ll be expected to collaborate and drive efforts across multiple engineeringand organizations; success will beachieved bymeet or exceedingunit requirementstechnical solutionsas well asneed to have bothpeople skills paired with technical depthSome of your responsibilities will be to:

• stand 3rd

• diveinto CPU,Accelerator,Memory, 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 Hardware (HW) platform factoring in performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs.

• Drive internal alignment onvideo and data acceleratortechnology platformPORs (plan of record)

• Recommend internal and external process improvements anddrive functionalconversationsto ensure we haveoptimizedprocesses and alignment

• maintain, and effectivelydisseminateproject communication to stakeholders.

• Drive cross-functional teamstotimelyand successfulexecutive decisions.
• Embody our