Program Manager - Windows and Devices at Microsoft

Job Number: 1184926
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Travel: 0 - 25%

Overview

• Across Microsoft, we’re accelerating progress to a more sustainable future with ambitious goals such as becoming carbon negative by 2030 and removing all carbon the company has emitted from the atmosphere by 2050.
• The Windows and Devices organization has a significant role to play here given the carbon emissions associated with manufacturing new PCs and the electricity consumed by our large (1B+) and growing user base. We’re looking for a passionate and skilled Program Manager who loves sustainability and data to join us in our mission of reducing Windows’ carbon footprint.
• As a Program Manager on our team, you will collaborate with others, leveraging rich datasets, to identify opportunities emission reductions. As you find these opportunities, you will:
  • Work with our engineering team to build customer facing experiences and developer dashboards and tools to improve optics on emissions.
  • Partner with internal teams across the company and external developers to help them reduce the emissions their code is responsible for.
  • Throughout all your work, you will use data to tell a compelling story that motivates others to engage and act.

Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities include:

• Data-driven: You’ll analyze and derive insights about areas of opportunity from telemetry data that inform and help prioritize our investments, learn from in-market products, and feed forward to future products.
• Feature design: You will design new experiences within Windows and other dashboards / tools that will be used by software engineers and customers alike to understand and reduce their own emissions.
• Cross-team engagement: As you identify areas of opportunity you will tell a story with data through dashboards and other collateral to engage with other product teams to drive sustainability optimizations and features.
• Strategy: You’ll help set the vision and product strategy to meet our ambitious objectives.

Qualifications
Required:

• B.A / B.Sc in Computer Science, Data Science, or related Technical / Mathematics discipline.
• 2+ years program management or related experience in a technical area.

Preferred:

• Passion for using data to understand the world and to drive the right change, while managing competing priorities.
• The ability to see the bigger picture and focus on end-to-end customer scenarios.
• Leadership, communication, and cross-group collaboration skills.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.