Senior Program Manager

Microsoft is a company where innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking a cloud-enabled world. 

Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences (HLS) team is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations to achieve their goals and improve patient care. We aim to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem by bringing the healthcare ecosystem together which empowers everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for their workforces and patients or members alike.

We are looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our team. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Program Manager to define and drive rhythm of business activities across our newly formed HLS Core AI Platform team, working with team leaders and with leads across HLS to ensure clarity and efficient execution of priorities.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Business Planning & RoB: Support LT, Product Management, Engineering and Operations team to influence, manage and execute Rhythm of Business (ROB) and planning process. Drive thoughtful execution through coordination and engagement with teams inclusive of activities like semester planning, Monthly Business Review (MBR) management, and execution of org level objectives and key results (OKR’s),
• Business Rhythm: Lead and coordinate business RoB, includes ownership of All Hands, weekly Staff meetings, LT rhythm, manager meetings, etc.
• Collaborations, Alignment, Negotiations: Work closely with HLS internal teams, Partner teams, stakeholders, and other cross Azure Business Management Community.
• Business Value Delivery: Maintain long-term roadmaps, guide teams through development of frameworks, conduct retrospectives and problem-solving sessions via established practices and approaches, manage dependencies and mitigate risks.
• Drive simplification and automation to evolve processes, services, and solutions that increase agility, efficiencies and lower costs.
• Facilitate Data driven decision making: Ensure appropriate data and insights are surfaced at the right altitude and in a timely manner to enable leadership and stakeholders to make data driven decisions.
• Shared culture of diversity and respect: Embody our company values of accountability, integrity, and respect in every and all interactions creating deep connections within our communities, focus on increasing representation, while fostering awareness and growth through an inclusive environment. Be a leader in the transformation of our culture by establishing an environment where everyone has a growth mindset and is encouraged to continue to learn and grow.
• Special Projects: As needed, design and deliver high-impact, cross-team projects to meet the changing business environment. Demonstrate successful project management skills, and ability to work across HLS divisions and partners.

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience with Agile and SAFE program management frameworks.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required