The Azure High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence (HPC & AI) compute platform team is looking to solve the problem of providing Azure customers with supercomputer-class capabilities to accelerate their research, drive competitive differentiation, and finding answers to some of the most difficult questions of science and industry at Microsoft.
Requirements
- 2+ years experience in product / service / program management or software development
- Experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework) and improving metrics for a product, feature, or experience.
- Experience managing or leading cross-functional hardware programs involving coordination with multiple stakeholders, tracking KPIs, and enhancing the overall customer experience.
- Data and AI tools experience
- Software development experience
- Experience with UX, APIs, hardware design
- Experience with security factors such as logging posture, permissions minimization, and security-by-default principles
Responsibilities
- Defines the feature set and partners with Design teams to connect multiple design factors (UX, APIs, hardware design) to desired functionality and product vision.
- Collaborates with partner teams to build golden configurations and drives scenario walkthroughs and thought exercises to identify problems, system friction, and needed contingencies in advance of early customer adoption.
- Partners with others (e.g., Data Science, Software Engineering) to define and collect performance metrics, monitor and report on progress, and derive deep insights and drive productive courses of action to improve product/feature development, iteration, and implementation.
- Leverages data and AI tools to analyze user behavior or feedback, working with data scientists or engineering to implement AI-driven improvements.
- Incorporates security factors into design, including logging posture, permissions minimization, and security-by-default principles.
- Owns the roadmap for multiple feature areas, prioritizes the backlog, and aligns with SWE/HWE on tradeoffs.
- Starts to build systems and frameworks to enable the team to scale for a product area, ensuring alignment between roadmap and OKRs/KPIs.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication and partnership skills across a diverse set of audiences and stakeholders.
- A growth-mindset that enables creativity in thinking, strong analytical skills, an ability to deal with ambiguity, management of changing priorities, and consistency in learning from others.
- Passion for solving complex problems with engineering solutions that optimize both the product and customer experience.
