Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Storage Fleet Strategy and Capacity Management

$137,600 - $267,000/Yr

Microsoft - Redmond, WA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Redmond, WA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Microsoft Azure Storage Platform team is responsible for defining, building, and deploying the foundational platforms and setting strategy, managing, and optimizing the fleet hosting Azure Storage services. We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our team to lead the Azure Storage Fleet Strategy and Capacity management team. This is a unique and highly visible management role with large scope to create strategies and drive optimizations for delivering operational excellence in storage fleet management for best-in-class first party and third party customer experiences. You will be responsible for understanding customer requirements, identifying trends impacting storage fleet capacity efficiencies, steering the capacity strategy and operations to deliver end to end seamless customer capacity experiences while meeting fleet quality, availability and business profitability goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of high caliber program managers and technical program managers to deliver subject matter expertise for Azure Storage end-to-end Cost Of Goods Sold (COGS) strategy and profitability roadmap.
• Drive execution and operationalize cross Azure Storage initiatives with focus on reducing Storage fleet inefficiencies and improving seamless capacity availability.
• Identify, recommend new investments with focus on overall fleet COGS reductions to drive profitability via improvements in capacity utilization and performance allocations, fleet management optimization.
• Deliver the infrastructure capabilities (demand, capacity utilization, migrations, ...) required to enable operational excellence for best in class customer experiences.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years of experience in technical program management/business planning/capacity planning OR operations strategy and/or planning.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing teams of product managers/program managers.
• Experience in fleet management, capacity management and planning, customer experience at cloud scale.
• Technical background in storage technologies.
• Knowledge of cloud storage solutions and experience in cloud storage.
• Experience in cost planning, setting cost and pricing strategies.

Benefits

• Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year.
• Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.