Job: Senior Program Manager - Skype Job

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Job Category: Software Engineering: Program ManagementLocation: Redmond, WA, USJob ID: 837454-112168Division: Skype

Description

Are you passionate about influencing and changing an industry? Do you enjoy defining new solutions in emerging technology areas and collaborating with other industry leaders to achieve them? Join the Lync Room Systems team and change the way we collaborate.
The Lync Room Systems team in the Skype Division is looking for a Senior Program Manager to create, scope and define solutions for rich, immersive meeting rooms where teams can communicate and collaborate effortlessly in the room and with remote attendees. In this role you will be responsible for defining groundbreaking meeting scenarios and features and investigating and scoping emerging technologies which can transform the meeting experience. You will have the opportunity to work with multiple teams in the Skype division and across the company to extend the value of Lync beyond the desktop.

We are looking for a talented industry Senior PM who can:

Understand and drive the experiences required for rich, immersive meetings
Define specifications for break-through products and work with the development team to implement them
Drive requirements to other Lync teams to achieve end-to-end solutions
Creatively identify opportunities to accomplish more with partners than Lync and our partners can accomplish alone
Build consensus with partners and among various teams in the Lync group and across Microsoft
Drive project forward through excellent project management skills
You should be able to clearly articulate customer scenarios, understand the desires of end users, the requirements of IT and use deep technical skills to define solutions which drive adoption of video and sales of Lync.

This position requires:
7+ years PM experience
Domain knowledge in one of following areas: Unified Communications, VOIP, Video, SIP
Proven experience delivering integrated solutions
Strong technical skills
Excellent communication and negotiation skills
Excellent cross group skills
Experience with partner management

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