Senior Program Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products in our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. 

​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.​ 

​​The Azure Data Customer Advisory Team (CAT) aims to accelerate our customers' journey in building intelligent applications using developer-friendly, mission-critical, AI-enabled relational and non-relational operational databases by programmatically upskilling, sharing best practices, and learning from our field, partners, and customers. 
 
We are looking to hire a Senior Program Manager to join our team. Our team works closely with related product managers and sales teams to inform product improvement and reduce sales friction by collecting, curating, and analyzing product feedback, distilling and communicating valuable insights and best practices. 

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We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. 

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

• Evangelize the capabilities of Azure operational databases (Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB,
• Azure PostgreSQL) and the value they bring to customers building modern, intelligent applications.
• Evangelize AI design patterns that leverage the large repositories of rich data customers have in their organizations, broadening the scope, scale, and value of the solutions they build for their organizations.
• Identify and recruit a community of experts from the Microsoft field to broaden the reach of the CAT team, working through the pool of field talent to impact more customers than we can do alone.
• Work with the Microsoft field to help enterprise customers succeed with Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
• Collect, curate, and analyze product feedback, clearly communicating these valuable insights and best practices to all stakeholders.
• Build new and improveexisting technical assets (samples, accelerators, and demos) that accelerate the adoption of new technologies and best practices across the field and customers.

Other

• Embody our Culture  &