Microsoft Senior Manager Release Management 

United States, Washington 

875440244

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years project or people management experience.

• 2+ years experience as a Release Manager.
• 1+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years people management experience.

• 4+ years experience as a Release manager.

• 4+ years project or program management experience.

• 2+ years experience in Power BI or any other similar tools is a plus.
• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ years experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

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

• Manages delivery success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Responsible for defining program and release criteria, driving release quality metrics and improvements.
• Directs team in defining the program(s) goals and prioritization for the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service) they own. Helps team translate the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables based on data insights.
• Leads team to identify opportunities and gaps in the implementation of feature/feature areas (e.g., product, service) including comparison of various quality and performance metrics to various solutions.
• Leads teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as quality and performance) of the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service)
• Leads teams to partner with the engineering team to contribute, prioritize, and deliver on the roadmap for the feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service).
• Lead the team to own the engineer self- service experience and provides documentation (e.g., troubleshooting guidelines, best practices, blogs.
• Embody our and