Principal Hardware Product Manager

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 both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?

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 achieve 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

Join our Systems Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. 

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. You will be involved with all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and supply chain, and into high scale deployment.  You’ll work closely with our engineers and architects, and also our peer teams (including Azure Core, Azure Security, and SCHIE) to plan and deliver solutions into the fleet leveraging well-known processes we’ve used to deliver new capabilities into Azure. 

We are looking for a Principal Hardware Product Manager to join our team!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers and partner organizations to drive a hardware accelerator and server infrastructure initiative for Azure data centers.
• Identify and prioritize customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive gaps, and translate them into clear and actionable product requirements and specifications.
• Lead the strategic product vision and drive internal alignment among wide-ranging cross-functional stakeholders to define the hardware technology platform plan of record.
• Lead technical programs from concept to execution, collaborating with architecture, engineering and business teams to develop and drive end-to-end product development.
• Establish platform and front end network prioritization strategies based on workload analysis. Track dependencies across SoC, OS, agents, networking, and telemetry. Work closely with supply teams to mitigate risks related to hardware availability and timeline shifts.
• Engage with senior leadership, highlighting risks across functional teams and providing recommendations to support product level decisions.
• Operate effectively in ambiguity. Apply process where it creates value, and design process where it’s needed. Recognize the situations where each approach is most appropriate.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience working in HW accelerator programs or a product manager 
• 7+ years of technical product management experience, including products within datacenter Hardware systems and/or Cloud infrastructure. 
• 7+ years 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.   

 Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Communication skil