Product Change Pm

Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is looking for a Product Change Management Program Manager to lead hardware and software product changes for Azure’s server platforms, cloud technologies and services. You will have the opportunity to build cross-team partnerships to improve delivery quality, change control, and efficient day to day operations. We operate in a high‐tech environment, laying the groundwork for scalable growth while delivering capacity and exceeding our customers’ expectations.

Microsoft Azure is experiencing explosive growth and innovation connecting people, services, and devices around the world. Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines your cross-team collaboration and technical capabilities with business insight and strategy? As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new hardware infrastructure on time, with high quality and in high volume is of paramount importance.

CHIE is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 200+ online businesses including Office 365, Bing, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure cloud services, including AI, compute, storage and networking.

Come join this exciting and growing team on our monumental evolution of Azure cloud hardware and Microsoft

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**Responsibilities**:

- Drive and execute hardware and firmware production product changes for the Microsoft cloud
- Lead cross functional (engineering and supply chain) change projects to plan, execute and deliver on product changes end to end.
- Drive adherence to product changes through key milestones, shiproom and the change implementation forums
- Support activities at all stages of NPI hardware development. Remain engaged from the establishing of the server concept, through piloting server in Data Center and ramping server to mass production volumes.
- Holds accountability for team and portions of the work to delivery best in class supply architecture solutions
- Contributes to efforts to identify technical risks. Provides input into team across across NPI efforts
- Has a basic understanding of the product technical requirements, milestones, deliverables and interdependencies for establishing an accurate and effective project infrastructure.
- Leverage experience to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.
- Effectively communicate and escalate risks and dependencies while ensuring timely decisions are being made.
- Contribute to risk management efforts in new product introduction, scenario planning and help mitigate of risks; recovery from risks.
- Collaborates with senior team members to contribute to end game planning
- Ensure programs meet requirements for financial impact planning & supply base strategy
- Communicate to and regularly interact with project team members, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions
- Contribute to cross functional alignment: generating clarity, tracking towards release milestones and overall readiness for all new Data Center infrastructure deployments.
- Use program management tools and communication methods to ensure common understanding of program plan of record and changes to stakeholders

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- 4+ years of experience driving technical projects from requirements through launch, including managing project schedules, removing roadblocks and keeping processes running smoothly.
- Experience providing communications and program updates at a management level.
- Experience in program management fundamentals, including presentation skills and written communication;
- Ability to partner closely with cross-functional teams to define, prioritize, and implement features, infrastructure, processes, and workflows.
- Create and operationalize processes to transform the effectiveness of the organization with respect to meeting business goals. Coach, enable and grow Program Managers within the team and our partners.
- Align key stakeholders, and manage projects through milestones to completion on schedule.
- Communicate and present program plans and status with management.
- Understanding and passion for program management and product release methodologies.
- Monitor and measure engineering impact and performance results.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in in business, engineering or related experience
- Problem solving, debugging and communication skills
- Demonstrated experience leading projects that are technical in nature
- Ability to deal with ambiguity, assess opportunities and develop principles to prioritize multip