Senior Program Manager - Capacity Customer Experience

Microsoft is rapidly expanding its global data center (DC) footprint to meet our customers’ cloud objectives. All DCs and service offerings require efficient and reliable capacity planning to meet exponentially growing customer demand. We are an agile, exciting, and fast-evolving engineering team focused on delivering capacity solutions for our customers worldwide, and across all Microsoft cloud offerings. As we grow, we need passionate and talented individuals with business and/or engineering backgrounds, a ton of energy, and a healthy dose of humility!

We’re now seeking to hire a talented Senior Customer Experience Program Manager based in the Puget Sound, to support the Americas. This role reports to the Americas Regional Lead and will partner closely with subsidiary leadership teams (Area Vice President and LT, Business Group Leads, Technical advisers, etc.) across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The role will help Microsoft align cross-company sales initiatives, cloud capacity expansion, revenue performance, and gross margin targets to our capacity plans. More importantly, this role will help us plan for and enable some of our most important Customer solutions through strong partnerships and cloud co-planning efforts. We’re encouraging a diverse cross-section of individuals with cloud sales, engineering/capacity planning, and program management experience to apply!

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.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in sales operations and/or direct customer engagement

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 / Preferred Qualifications: 

• Self-motivating and able to work across business groups in isolation, think critically, and act decisively in ambiguous situations.
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance or a related field, MBA preferred; ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements required.

Customer Experience Program Mgmt IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 20, 2025

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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• Work closely with cross organizational teams, including analysis of the opportunity pipeline to develop leading indicators that predict business opportunities and expansion challenges with accuracy.
• Act as a capacity ‘Account Manager’ for all regional capacity opportunities and challenges.
• Become a trusted advisor to regional leadership teams for infrastructure planning, execution, and resolution of capacity-related issues.
• Synthesize key feedback from customers, partners, and field to HQ with the goal of identifying sales blockers and best practice process improvements to enhance worldwide selling capability and efficiency.
• Contribute to the Field Insights Team’s rhythm of business (RoB) in support of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) program gathering key insights to assist in making informed and efficient planning decisions.
• Develop a localized RoB to drive business efficiencies across all aspects of the Americas supply chain.
• Communicate progress, isolate key challenges and opportunities, and accelerate decision making.
• Role will require travel 0-10%.