Microsoft's cloud growth requires innovation in hardware designs, and the SPARC team needs a Principal Hardware Product Manager to manage Azure's hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all current and future online services.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience working in HW accelerator programs or a product manager
- 7+ years of technical product management experience, including products within datacenter Hardware systems and/or Cloud infrastructure.
- Must be conversant in software and hardware architectures. Includes knowledge of the component technologies (networking, silicon, storage, memory, etc.) in the hardware industry.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers and partner organizations to drive a hardware accelerator and server infrastructure initiative for Azure data centers.
- Identify and prioritize customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive gaps, and translate them into clear and actionable product requirements and specifications.
- Lead the strategic product vision and drive internal alignment among wide-ranging cross-functional stakeholders to define the hardware technology platform plan of record.
- Lead technical programs from concept to execution, collaborating with architecture, engineering and business teams to develop and drive end-to-end product development.
- Establish platform and front end network prioritization strategies based on workload analysis.
- Track dependencies across SoC, OS, agents, networking, and telemetry.
- Work closely with supply teams to mitigate risks related to hardware availability and timeline shifts.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Communication skills, including the ability to build compelling internal/external presentations and technology-focused whitepapers, and comprehensive business review materials as well as the ability to translate abstract thoughts, key themes and tactics into understandable messages for broad consumption.
- Demonstrable knowledge and depth of security concepts, especially those pertaining to Cloud / Server architectures and business models.
- Demonstrated excellent analytical, problem resolution and decision-making skills.
