Senior Hardware Manufacturing Program Manager

Overview
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for Hardware Manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for a results-driven, development Senior Hardware Manufacturing Program Manager with dedicated passions for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
The Hardware Manufacturing PM Group (HMPM) is a team that collaborates with Microsoft's suppliers, engineering design teams, business managers, and supply chain managers to ensure that the newest hardware that powers Microsoft's cloud services is available to our customers on-time and at the highest levels of quality. A critical function in this work ensures the newest hardware developed by Microsoft is built at our supplier's factories with efficiency, safety, and at the highest levels of quality. HMPM also ensures that our suppliers empower our customers by delivering this hardware and being agile and creative to work through the challenges of new product introduction.
Responsibilities

• Lead the Hardware Manufacturing of New Product Introduction (NPI) program/s through the different phases of the engineering development lifecycle.
• Manage multiple NPI Cloud hardware programs with a goal of ensuring Microsoft's hardware is manufactured at the highest levels of Q&R, safety and aligned to schedule for delivery to Microsoft's global datacenters.
• Lead a cross functional team within the Manufacturing team in a fast pace and complex environment to ensure partner site readiness, identify and manage build risks, drive for mitigations and lead manufacturing gate reviews. Able to leverage experience and engineering skills to solve problems, fill gaps and achieve objectives through a cross functional team.
• Maintain NPI manufacturing relationship and operations with external partner towards a common goal.
• See the bigger program picture to drive program clarity and efficiency, influence stakeholders and shift things to the left.
• Define supply chain and lead team towards project schedules leading from operational readiness to product quality delivery.
• Provide innovation and creativity in developing new tools and processes that enable Microsoft and our suppliers to scale our growth in deploying NPI hardware with efficiency and predictability.
• Experience interacting with senior management, highlighting risks and providing recommendations to support product level decisions. Communicate program status to Microsoft stakeholders in a clear and timely manner using written, verbal, and analytic formats.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Utilize project management skills, including the ability to develop and maintain detailed project schedules, track progress, identify and mitigate risks, and drive decision-making to keep programs on track.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and drive key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure project performance and identify areas for improvement.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• 2+ years' experience working in manufacturing, operations, engineering, product and program management.

Other Requirments:
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.
Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering: Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, or any related engineering degree AND 8+ years' experience in program management of hardware development and manufacturing.
• 6+ years' experience working in manufacturing, operations, engineering, product and program management.
• Graduate degree in engineering or an MBA with an emphasis in operations management
• Engineering experience in designing and/or manufacturing the parts and assemblies used in datacenter hardware. Additional experience and knowledge in server industry product development process will be significantly advantageous.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data statistically and to translate statistical data into business narratives that enable executives to make timely and informed decisions.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with a growth mindset, and attention to details.
• Communications and leadership skills, ability to work well with cross functional groups, ability to work independently with remote supervision.
• PMP, Six Sigma or Lean certifications

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers
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