Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, Microsoft Network, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for results-driven, and intellectually curious development Hardware Program Managers with dedicated passions for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

The Hardware Manufacturing PM Group (HMPM) is a team that collaborates with Microsoft’s suppliers, engineering design teams, business managers, and supply chain managers to ensure that the newest hardware that powers Microsoft’s cloud services is available to our customers on-time and at the highest levels of quality. A critical function in this work ensures the newest hardware developed by Microsoft is built at our supplier’s factories with efficiency, safety, and at the highest levels of quality. HMPM also ensures that our suppliers empower our customers by delivering this hardware and being agile and creative to work through the challenges of new product introduction.

We are looking for a Principal Hardware Manufacturing Program Manager with a background on server design and manufacturing of products that cover Compute and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) based Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads to join our team and take part in our vision to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more with Microsoft’s technology.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Hardware Manufacturing Program Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Manage manufacturing operations and execution of Microsoft’s cloud New Product Introduction (NPI) hardware programs.

• Provides technical leadership across NPI efforts and manufacturing through the different phases of the product development lifecycle in a fast pace and complex environment.

• Forge a partnership and influence key stakeholders; maintain NPI relationship with external partners.

• See the big program picture to drive program goals with the ability to identify risks, mitigate risks and shift left.

• Define supply chain and drive team towards project schedules leading from operational readiness to product quality delivery.

• Front and center in anything manufacturing including unblocking risks and issues affecting manufacturing.

• Engage in driving team process improvements that supports efficiency and scalability.

• Communicate program status and health to stakeholders including leadership teams.

• Utilize project management skills, including the ability to develop and maintain detailed project schedules, track progress, identify and mitigate risks, and drive decision-making to keep programs on track.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in 6+ years’ experience in technical program management of hardware development and manufacturing.

• OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 3+ years’ of experience working in manufacturing, operations, engineering, product and program management.

Other Requirements

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

• Graduate degree in engineering or a Masters of Business Administration (MBA).

• Manufacturing and engineering experience with servers supporting zero lag programs.

• Ability to simplify data set and able to talk through the details and data to support decisions.

• Experience in global supplier relationship and performance management.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with a growth mindset, grit humility, dependability, and attention to details.

• High appetite for programs in a complex environment, constant changes and risk mitigation.

• Lead problem solving wih cross functional team spanning technical and supply chain teams.

• Possess Microsoft leadership attributes of: drive clarity, generate energy and deliver success.

• Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma or Lean certifications

• Ability to travel up to 25% each year.

• Demonstrated experience prioritizing and executing tasks in a high-pressure, fast-faced environment.

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .