Technical PM Lead – Azure & AI – Microsoft Innovation Hub Full-time

Are you ready to transform with your future team the way technology is used in the largest customers? Do you thrive by leading teams of seasoned professionals working with cutting edge technologies?

Join the Innovation Hub central team. The Innovation Hub team delivers deep technical engagements focused on business outcomes. Senior architects drive customer innovation – from problem exploration to technical proof of concepts- with a journey of highly tailored single or multi-day engagements.

The Technical Program Management Lead – Azure & AI is a critical leadership position responsible for the Adoption and Usage of our Azure and AI Solutions across all innovation hub locations. The future leader has a strong technical background and is passionate business leader with a talent for mentoring and coaching to help further develop our teams across multiple countries. The Azure and AI Leader is thriving in a high-performance culture and enjoys nurturing and developing some of the highest technical talent inside Microsoft.

You will join an established program staffed with an extraordinary team of technologists and creatives running one of the world’s broadest and most impactful executive technical sales programs. You’ll deliver into a world-wide community of exceptional peers, with access to the latest software and hardware, and you’ll be given the time and budget to develop as a globally influential technical leader.

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

For this position, we can consider candidates that are currently living in, and a tax resident within the EMEA region.

Responsibilities:

As the Technical Program Management Lead – Azure & AI your role will include:

• • Technical & Innovation Leadership : You are responsible for the Microsoft Innovation Hub Azure & AI team. This includes hub technical architects leadership, pipeline management, leveraging events for strategic advantage. Your role is to set a vision around Azure & AI offering and identify gaps in content; seek sponsorship to fill those gap. You should have a broad cloud technical background to engage at a global platform design including solid notions of Cloud infrastructure, Data Platforms, Cloud native Applications as well as a good understanding of Cloud Security. On top of that, the ideal candidate should have a depth knowledge of AI technologies and capabilities.
  • Activation of the interactive theater narratives: Your role owns landing new content successfully in a range of experience formats like physical exhibits, digital signage, in-room demos, and immersive multi-media theaters. You own the content narrative for our 20+ ultra-widescreen LED walls – adapting assets to make best use of the available technology and authoring a persuasive, persona-based narrative journey through the best of Microsoft’s innovation. Work through our global communities to harvest and improve the best demos. You will ensure the latest messaging, demos and content gets to the people who need to use it. You will also deliver a small number of customer engagements – to keep your technical skills sharp and grounded in the everyday needs of our global teams.
  • Operational Excellence : You will drive establish a culture of accountability and success through clear objectives, defining success metrics. You will drive the Innovation hub Azure & AI community to increase Azure & AI penetration and usage.
  • People & Community Orchestration : You will work on exploring best practices, community management, skilling, and growth perspectives. The innovation hub teams are composed of experts in their field addressing the most challenging use cases and opportunities in their region. You will manage this world-wide community to ensure they stay up to date with the latest developments and innovations in your portfolio.

This role requires a deep understanding of Microsoft’s technology stack, the ability to envision and architect beyond traditional product selling, and a focus on driving innovation through strategic use of Microsoft’s technology in addressing customer and industry needs.

Qualifications:

Professional Experience:

• Thought leader with great executive presence, including the ability to engage CxO and BDM level discussions, exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written and presentation skills
• Ability to generate trust, build alliances, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams.
• People Management Experience
• Empathy, curiosity, and desire to constantly improve, acquire new skills and drive for results

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated Technical leadership through prior technical expertise roles
• Engineering, technical sales, consultative delivery management experience or equivalent
• Strong technical understanding of the Azure & AI ecosystem. Ability to stay up to date on new/improved products and scenarios.

Experience:

• 10+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience in the Azure & AI domain.

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. 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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