Principal Program Manager

Are you passionate about securing cloud services and customer data? Are you fascinated with the emergence of IoT? Would you like a career where Data Science meets Security and Industrial IoT space to keep Microsoft Azure cloud secure? Cloud Data Center Cybersecurity (Cloud DC2) team is looking for a Principal Program Manager to drive new high-profile Security Monitoring Service and high performing PM team. Cloud DC2 is a start-up team at Microsoft chartered to secure cloud datacenters with very lofty goals. We are looking for a strong Program Manager who can help us take an exciting new idea, refine it, and grow what we believe will be one of high impacting Security Service. It’s a bold challenge with huge upside and great visibility. You will be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment. If you like to build deep customer insights and translate them to detailed technical and business requirements that can be executed across the organization; if you have strong technical skills to understand IT architecture, strong communication skills, are data-driven, a quick learner and enjoy creating long-term business value, then this is the role for you.
We are a team that is customer obsessed, has a strong drive for results, and believes that effective collaboration is how we all achieve more. As part of our team, you will engage directly with our customers, analyze a wealth of data, and identify new opportunities for the team to execute on. You’ll design and run experiments in order to make data backed decisions. Most importantly, you’ll be part of a team that grows, learns, and succeeds together.ResponsibilitiesAs part of this role, you will:

• Help define feature roadmap as we iterate to the future. Drive multiple simultaneous engineering projects with our partners ranging from experimentation to global product launches
• Apply data driven insights to create business justifications and value proposition for proposed engineering investments
• Convert complex scenarios into business requirements and then drive technical feature specifications
• Bring those scenarios to market, drive adoption, and evaluate their success
• Partner with the software engineering teams to implement scenarios that will increase the capability to deliver against critical KPIs
• Manage schedules, risks, and issues with effective communication to the team, to senior management and company executives
• Learn from our successes and our failures, and feed those learnings back into our own hypothesis driven development cycle

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of work experience designing, building and/or implementing software products.
• 5+ years of experience in shipping customer-facing solutions or products as a product/program manager

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Having recent experience with cloud services design and/or deployment is a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience leading external partner engagements strongly preferred
• Excellent cross-group/cross-discipline skills
• Practical experience in all aspects of software engineering and development lifecycle; particularly with scenario focused design and development
• Highly cooperative, empathetic and strong interpersonal skills to create clarity and align differing viewpoints
• Self-starter that can work independently with little supervision

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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.
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