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Senior Hardware Platform Product Manager
Microsoft - Redmond, WA
posted 2 months ago
About the position
The Senior Hardware Platform Product Manager will play a crucial role in the Strategic Planning and Advanced Architecture Team (SPARC) within Microsoft's Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization. This position focuses on driving hardware platform architecture and planning for Azure's Compute products, ensuring that the hardware meets performance, features, and time-to-market requirements. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to recommend hardware platform configurations that align with business goals and enhance workload efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Engage with Microsoft cloud business units to define future hardware platform requirements and align recommendations for executive approval.
- Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define platform design objectives that meet technical and business goals.
- Lead cross-functional teams to build data-driven strategic frameworks for decision making.
- Perform scenario modeling, financial modeling, and market analysis.
- Evaluate performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs.
- Assess Microsoft Azure's competitiveness in light of anticipated changes in the industry, customer, and competitor trends.
- Recommend, maintain, and manage changes to portions of the Azure HW Platform Roadmap.
Requirements
- 7+ years of technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of technical product management experience, including products within datacenter HW systems and/or Cloud infrastructure.
- 5+ years of experience creating product roadmap(s) from conception to launch, driving end-to-end program execution, defining product go-to-market strategy, and leading program direction discussions.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, computer engineering, or associated engineering fields.
- Deep understanding or prior experience in datacenter compute, storage, and networking architecture.
- Deep understanding of key technologies/ingredients such as Microprocessors, Memory, Storage, Networking, offload engines and/or accelerators.
- Prior experience with Data Center HW Infrastructure.
- Ability to balance between technology, business, and strategy to inform roadmap decisions.
- Ability to drive alignment across stakeholders and influence cross-functional leadership to converge on decisions/recommendations that lead to tangible impact and transformation.
- Executive communication skills - the ability to present and lead discussions with senior leadership team and abstract details to communicate with clarity and relevance.
- Proven customer obsession in prior roles where customer requirements were gathered and implemented into a product.
- Familiarity and previous experience developing programs through phase gate processes.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage
- Dental insurance coverage
- Vision insurance coverage
- 401k benefit for retirement savings plan
- 401(k) matching benefit
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Flexible scheduling
- Professional development opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee discount programs
