Senior 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 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 the Systems Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) organization, the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and 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.      We are looking for a  Senior Product Manager to join our team!

RESPONSIBILITIES:     Support the development and execution of Azure Compute initiatives by driving planning, prioritization, and cross-functional coordination of the Platform Infrastructure. Focus on resolving supply-related challenges, ensuring long-term capacity readiness for cloud services, and delivering efficiency improvements that strengthen business performance and margin outcomes.   Engage with Microsoft cloud business units to define future hardware platform and system requirements and align recommendations for executive approval.   Define and own platform roadmap and strategy that spans concept, POR, qualification, launch, and scale.   Drive cross-org alignment through interlocks with members from various business units including software and hardware engineering and architecture, networking, datacenter infrastructure, finance, and supply chain management to build data-driven strategic frameworks for decision making.   Identify and mitigate platform, schedule, and dependency risks early; drive trade-off decisions with clarity and data.   Define success metrics and track execution against committed milestones   Qualifications Required Qualifications  Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience 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.

Deep understanding or prior experience in datacenter compute, storage or networking architecture  Bachelors or higher degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science  3 years of Product Planning, Product Management or Strategic Planning experience in Data Center, Cloud Infrastructure or Computer Architecture domain  3 years or more experience in server architecture with relevant technologies such as microprocessors, accelerators, memory, storage or networking technologies  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 map workload