Job: Program Manager, Data Center - Skype Job

Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 838669-114608
Division: Skype

Description

Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Every day, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles. Building this world class consumer scale service requires a datacenter platform that can deploy, configure, secure, experiment, and orchestrate at scale while delivering amazing cost efficiencies. The Skype division is hiring a Principal Lead Program Manager to help define and deliver the next generation platform that will power billions of conversations world-wide.

Key Responsibilities

- Grow and mentor a team of program managers that will act as product owners for the datacenter platform
- Define the product direction for this platform in conjunction with your development, test, and service engineering peers
- Evaluate emerging technology trends inside and outside of Microsoft for the datacenter
- Build strong relationships with key internal partners such as SQL, Azure, and System Center
- Drive KPIs for service excellence in areas such as deployment velocity and time-to-value
- Present a compelling vision to executive management that is backed by data with a meaningful execution plan (backlog)
- Evangelize and refine agile processes such as scrum to continuously improve the quality and business value delivered by your team

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have previous experience both as a PM lead and in large scale online services. In addition to this, the candidate should have:

- Undergraduate degree in computer science, telecommunications, or business
- 5+ years experience in program management having delivered multiple product releases
- Working knowledge of one or more agile development methodologies
- Background in Microsoft management technologies such as PowerShell, Active Directory, and MSIs or their open source equivalents
- Ability to work with teams across multiple geographies

Come join one of the fastest growing online businesses for Microsoft and help us change the world of communications.


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Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue 
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