Job Vacancies at Microsoft Nigeria

Job number: 1177390
Profession: Marketing
Role type: Individual Contributor
Travel: 0 - 25%

Africa Transformation Office (ATO) Background 

• Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Africa is one of the best places on the planet to bring our mission to life. It is home to 1.3B people and 54 countries. The talent in Africa reflects a tremendously rich and diverse potential that can truly impact the world over the next few decades.
• Being the youngest continent in the world with a median age of just 19.5 years, Africa is contributing to +12M youth being added to the global labor force every year. By 2040, half of the world's young people will live in Africa. Africa's growth is propelled by being a mobile first continent which is fueling connectivity, innovation, and scalability.  
• Our aspiration is to transform Africa to a Cloud-first, Digital-first continent enabling a thriving digital economy across Africa while reinventing Microsoft's digital assets and capabilities to serve the young continent's transformation needs. With that in mind was the establishment of new team; the Africa Transformation Office (ATO), which will be established and chartered with the following:   
  • Build strategic, unconventional partnerships with key governments, institutions and enterprises to enable and accelerate digital economy across the African continent. 
  • Develop digital marketing engines to enable and accelerate Startups and SMBs. 
  • Plan and land infrastructure enablers and game changers in the continent. 
  • Enable Africa as a Foreign Direct Investment destination supported by expanding our technologies for MNCs across key industries. 
  • Manage the 4Afrika initiative and further integrate it to key company programs and engines to amplify its impact.  
  • Foster digital skilling and job creation to maximize the economic opportunity for the African youth and workforce. 

Role Summary 

• We are looking for a strong, pragmatic business thinker with seasoned field marketing experience to lead  marketing communications in the ATO.
• The ATO Marketing Manager will partner with our Central Marketing Organization (CMO) which is anchored around a shared purpose for Customer Centricity, Marketing Thought Leadership, and Marketing and Sales Alignment.
• The ATO Marketing Manager will support the ATO growth agenda through integrated marketing campaigns that delight our customers and partners and create Microsoft fans.
• The ATO Marketing Manager will leverage deep functional and business expertise to deliver superior customer experiences through connected customer journeys and data driven storytelling.
• The ATO Marketing Manager will build strategic partnerships across Corp HQ and the Area to drive a digitally transformed, connected go-to-market.
• As the  ATO Marketing Manager, you are responsible for driving growth, leading Marketing thought leadership, leading inclusive marketing, and ensuring marketing impact through execution excellence.
• With strong executive support, you lead and orchestrate a multi-dimensional & cross-functional marketing. Working in partnership with the MEA CMO team you will be responsible for implementing integrated marketing programs including those that drive demand generation through Global Demand Centers (GDCs) and Global Engagement Programs (GEPs).
• You lead the ATO to smartly maximize local marketing investments by fully exploiting global content, marketing services, and augmenting local work aligned to global strategies.
• The ideal candidate will be a strong business thinker with deep marketing understanding, a courageous leader skilled to lead & collaborate with field marketers and engender trust among sales leaders, and a rapid adopter, taking and sharing leading practices from peers around the world.
• The ATO Marketing Manager not only executes on global strategies but also champions effective local marketing integration and excellence in marketing operations to drive positive business outcomes.
• You must enjoy ongoing challenges in this multi-faceted, leadership role that combines strong agility, business thinking, marketing thought leadership, marketing operations excellence and masterfully leveraging global programs in your Area for the greater cause-all coming together to deliver the best solutions for our customers to achieve more.

Responsibilities

• Lead Marketing planning aligning with ATO business goals and support the ATO Strategic Pillars through execution of integrated marketing plans, leverage the Area CMO team and infrastructure to drive Microsoft Brand Awareness, using Global Demand Centers (GDCs) and Global Engagement Programs (GEPs) as well as local campaigns. (20%)
• Manage the ATO marketing budget and ensure integrated hybrid experiences for customers, leveraging global marketing strategies, policies, and assets.
• Model our Microsoft culture –authentic, transparent, inclusive -- and leadership values; build and grow diverse and inclusive teams. Implement a strong talent stewardship program and culture. Develop, attract and export top talent worldwide. (10%)

Compliance:

• Personally, commit to generate and protect Microsoft trust by modeling integrity every day and contributing to ethical sales and sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.Sc. / B.A.) or equivalent work experience required; MBA degree preferred but not required.
• Positive and pragmatic business thinker with a minimum of 10 years of Marketing, Marketing Operations, and digital technology change management leadership experience in technology.
• Strong people management experience, leading teams to land global marketing strategies, leverage corporate content, and augment integrated regional efforts that amplify/extend/scale marketing and enable sales. Recognized talent attractor, developer and exporter.
• Solid understanding of and appreciation for integrated, digital marketing, marketing automation concepts, and marketing operations. Strong analytical capabilities to make smart data-driven, business tradeoffs.
• Proven experience managing strategic issues and challenges in a highly matrixed organization. Leads with unflappable agility and adeptly responds to changing business conditions, bringing marketers and sellers along on our transformational journey together. Experience working at a large global multinational is a plus.
• High degree of self-awareness and professional objectivity, executive maturity and presence, exceptional listening skills, broad world perspective and sense of humor.
• Excellent verbal and written communications and cross-organization collaboration skills.
• Exceptional skill in exerting influence and impact with executives and senior leaders in the company.

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Job number: 1178337
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Full-Time
Profession: Business Programs & Operations
Role type: Individual Contributor
Travel: 25 - 50%

Africa Transformation Office (ATO) Background 

• Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Africa is one of the best places on the planet to bring our mission to life. It is home to 1.3B people and 54 countries. The talent in Africa reflects a tremendously rich and diverse potential that can truly impact the world over the next few decades.
• Being the youngest continent in the world with a median age of just 19.5 years, Africa is contributing to +12M youth being added to the global labor force every year. By 2040, half of the world's young people will live in Africa. Africa's growth is propelled by being a mobile first continent which is fueling connectivity, innovation, and scalability.  
• Our aspiration is to transform Africa to a Cloud-first, Digital-first continent enabling a thriving digital economy across Africa while reinventing Microsoft's digital assets and capabilities to serve the young continent's transformation needs. With that in mind was the establishment of new team; the Africa Transformation Office (ATO), which will be established and chartered with the following:   
  • Build strategic, unconventional partnerships with key governments, institutions and enterprises to enable and accelerate digital economy across the African continent. 
  • Develop digital marketing engines to enable and accelerate Startups and SMBs. 
  • Plan and land infrastructure enablers and game changers in the continent. 
  • Enable Africa as a Foreign Direct Investment destination supported by expanding our technologies for MNCs across key industries. 
  • Manage the 4Afrika initiative and further integrate it to key company programs and engines to amplify its impact.  
  • Foster digital skilling and job creation to maximize the economic opportunity for the African youth and workforce. 

Role Summary 

• Microsoft aspires to help our customers achieve their own digital transformation, leveraging the power of Microsoft Cloud solutions and support offerings. To this end, Microsoft invests in a dedicated team that will help Microsoft customers successfully realize their business outcomes.
• Azure is the most comprehensive, innovative, and flexible cloud platform today and Microsoft is hiring professionals that will drive customer cloud adoption within the most important companies in the market. We are always learning. Insatiably curious. We lean into uncertainty, take risks, and learn quickly from our mistakes. We build on each other’s ideas because we are better together.
• We stand in awe of what humans dare to achieve and are motivated every day to empower others to do more and achieve more through our technology and innovation. Together we make a difference.
• We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate App Innovation Architect focusing on Azure Application Innovation to join the ATO. This customer-facing position is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and production with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer technical obstacles and adoption challenges.
• As part of this role, you will be responsible for technical customer engagements, working with the most challenging and exciting projects within Microsoft Africa customer base.
• You will work with select customers to lead deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers.
• You will collaborate with a variety of internal and external teams to develop pilots and oversee implementation projects, ensuring technical blockers are removed on adoption.
• You will drive technical intensity of developers and create communities within customers. And you will collaborate with Product engineering to share feedback into the development of Microsoft products and help develop Azure platforms 

Responsibilities

• Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using PaaS, DevOps & Advanced Application coding
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to empower customers to create a modernization journey roadmap. Architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key Infrastructure technologies including Kubernetes, Azure PaaS services (e.g. App Service, Java, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) and Application Development with low code options and DevOps and GitHub technologies as appropriate 
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects and MS stakeholders in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform.
• Ensure all solutions exhibit “Well-Architected” framework, such as high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Run Architectural Design Session to build plan for implementing solution –governing design in line with customer business goals and their technical environment.  Outcome is consensus on solution design and next steps toward production.
• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Be the Voice of the Customer; Share insights and best practices, and connect with Engineering teams to remove blockers
• Trouble shoot technical issues to prove value of implementation of Azure technologies
• Assess the Customers' knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners · Collaborate with others in developing complex end-to-end Enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities
• Build and grow developer communities by driving activities including OpenHacks, Workshops.

Compliance:

• Personally, commit to generate and protect Microsoft trust by modeling integrity every day and contributing to ethical sales and sustainable growth.

Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field preferred 
• Certification in one of the following technologies preferred: Cloud, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e. containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub) 
• Certification in one or more of the following programming languages preferred: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, Python.

Experiences:

•  Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Oracle Preferred.

Professional:

• Professional Experience: 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications  
• Relationship Building: Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects.  
• Problem Solving: Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies  
• Collaboration and Communication: Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Administrators and Developers).

Technical:

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management  
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud)  
• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud native app hosting through software design, development, deployment and app refactoring/migrations  
• Web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM) 
• Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks, SDKs etc.  
• Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Visual Studio).  
• Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of cloud development platforms preferred.  
• Partners. Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs.

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Job number: 1178330
Profession: Business Programs & Operations
Role type: Individual Contributor
Travel: 25 - 50%

Africa Transformation Office (ATO) Background 

• Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Africa is one of the best places on the planet to bring our mission to life. It is home to 1.3B people and 54 countries. The talent in Africa reflects a tremendously rich and diverse potential that can truly impact the world over the next few decades.
• Being the youngest continent in the world with a median age of just 19.5 years, Africa is contributing to +12M youth being added to the global labor force every year. By 2040, half of the world's young people will live in Africa. Africa's growth is propelled by being a mobile first continent which is fueling connectivity, innovation, and scalability.  
• Our aspiration is to transform Africa to a Cloud-first, Digital-first continent enabling a thriving digital economy across Africa while reinventing Microsoft's digital assets and capabilities to serve the young continent's transformation needs. With that in mind was the establishment of new team; the Africa Transformation Office (ATO), which will be established and chartered with the following:   
  • Build strategic, unconventional partnerships with key governments, institutions and enterprises to enable and accelerate digital economy across the African continent. 
  • Develop digital marketing engines to enable and accelerate Startups and SMBs. 
  • Plan and land infrastructure enablers and game changers in the continent. 
  • Enable Africa as a Foreign Direct Investment destination supported by expanding our technologies for MNCs across key industries. 
  • Manage the 4Afrika initiative and further integrate it to key company programs and engines to amplify its impact.  
  • Foster digital skilling and job creation to maximize the economic opportunity for the African youth and workforce. 

Role Summary 

• The Partner Development Manager is an important contributor to Microsoft's partner engagement strategy. Microsoft aspires to offer the most comprehensive, inclusive, and profitable partner network in the industry.
• The partner business leads this effort in recruiting new partners, building solutions together, creating vibrant routes to market, and selling with impact to our joint customers.
• The goal of the PDM is at the start of this journey. The PDM Identifies, qualifies, engage, and enables strategic partners to develop new solutions on the Microsoft platform.
• With these new partners and solutions on the Microsoft Cloud Platform, we can better provide the right partner, at the right time, to solve customer business challenge.

Responsibilities

• The PDM is responsible for recruiting new Microsoft Partners in the marketplace. The PDM researches Industry and customer needs to identify where Microsoft has gaps in its portfolio of partners to meet customer needs or, there are opportunities to disrupt the marketplace with new and differentiated solutions and services that can transform business for Microsoft customers. The PDM leads the 360 degree business relationship with companies through the process of bringing new service offerings and solutions to market.
• The PDM engages at the very highest level of executives building trust and by developing joint business plans defining Go-To-Market strategies, driving implementation of all aspects of the strategy and by orchestrating relationships between the partners technical, sales and marketing teams and Microsoft’s to achieve sales targets.
• The PDM represents Microsoft to new partners, communicates our strategy, sells our vision and brings partners along in the digital transformation journey. The outcome will be to drive application development, long-term revenue, cloud consumption and digital transformation through a set of cloud applications & solutions leading to workload/industry based co-sell.
• The Partner Dev Manager will work with strategic partners to join Microsoft Cloud Platform and build solutions that will provide a unique expertise and solve customers’ business challenges.

Key responsibilities include:

• Recruitment Strategy and Planning - Develop Partner Recruit Strategy and Compete Plan: research, qualify and analyze potential new partners, articulating market insights about competitors. Create Recruit strategic partners target list based on Recruit Council, Capacity Plan, Industry Solution Categories and Segment priorities. Target list of highest value solution for the territory. 
• Build a trusted advisory relationship with partners - Builds expansive network with Business and Technical managers: sharing ideas, perspectives, building trusted advisory reputation within partner team. Create Executive Sponsorship and Relationships to build trust and drive for commitments. 
• Build New Solutions – Secure partner commitment to build net-new solutions on Microsoft cloud platform. Evangelize profitability of MS relationship, MS value proposition, quantify market opportunity and align expectations on engagement, deliverables, SLA, programs and services. Coordinate engagement of teams required to enable/skill up partner and manage solution development.  
• Leverage and request Microsoft Programs Services to: 
  • Support partner on launching new solution on Marketplace and ensure solution is discoverable 
  • Create/execute GTM plan for new solution 
  • Coordinate with Channel Managers for first customer opportunities 
  • Supervise partner engagement with Microsoft Programs, ensure SLA and Partner satisfaction and deliverables. 
• Drive business growth - Accountable for the growth of the business across the solution area partner portfolio, aligned with the Channel Management & Co-sell team, inclusive of expected partner impact. Drive business performance measured by revenue (usage & consumption), customer acquisition, apps, as well as the support global expansion. Demonstrate account management excellence through high quality interactions with the partner, and through well-orchestrated interactions between partner executives and Microsoft executives.  
• Partner Experience - Execute timely and appropriate transfer of partner to partner management teams for long-term partnership, or transfer partner to programmatic assistance when no longer appropriate for PDM engagement.
• Compliance - Personally, commit to generate and protect Microsoft trust by modeling integrity every day and contributing to ethical sales and sustainable growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree desired (Sales, Marketing, Business Operations) MBA preferred.
• 5 - 10+ years of experience in core sales experience, partner channel development, business development, alliance management in the technology industry
• Executive presence and ability to influence business leaders through business value propositions
• Experience with technology platforms and developing new solutions
• Working knowledge of cloud business models & how apps/services are brought to market
• Strong experience of managing virtual teams across functions and geographies:
• Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment
• Strong partner relationship management and solution development skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort
• Challenger mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through.

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Job Number: 1181939
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Travel: 0 - 25%

Job Overview

• Are you insatiably curious? Do you collaborate well with others, knowing that better solutions come from working together? Are you motivated every day to empower others to achieve more through technology and innovation?  
• We are building the Developer Relations dream team in Azure engineering. Our global team is maniacal about making the world amazing for developers of all backgrounds. We're excited to support and contribute to open-source platforms, tools, and processes. We’re spreading awareness of Azure and enabling developers to do what they love; write, code, and learn.  
• This is the heart and soul of reinventing Microsoft’s relationship with developers. Sound exciting? This is your opportunity to join and be a key part of our mission! Learn more here: www.aka.ms/meettheteam
• We are looking for Cloud Advocates who will be instrumental in building a large and vibrant student developer community through student mentorship in collaboration with Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors and Imagine Cup programs.
• You’ll also be empowered to create amazing, authentic demos/content on a broad range of technologies, provide and generate robust engineering feedback around Azure and developer tooling utilized by Academic Developers and build interactive workshops with Microsoft Learn. Join us as we inspire and earn the hearts and minds of developers broadly.

Responsibilities

• As a Cloud Advocate in Student Developer Programs, the core impact of this role is engaging and growing our university student engagement through our Educator, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors program, Imagine Cup competition, hackathons, and workshops on campus plus online skilling with Microsoft Learn.  

Your day-to-day might include:  

• Create scalable multi modal content, videos, and samples from beginner to best practices that demonstrates how to develop, deploy, manage, and scale Azure applications.  
• Win the hearts and minds of developers by building and/or contributing to OSS projects and building cool, useful, or productive apps.
• Build relationships with key influencers, foster a healthy and vibrant technical community, and collect and prioritize product feedback and technical blockers with engineering.
• Scale your efforts by partnering with the Microsoft field, developers and academic community programs like Microsoft Learn Educator Ambassadors, Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors, Microsoft MVPs
• Recruit and mentor Student Developers in your geographic region and mentor them through the Microsoft Learn Ambassadors, Imagine Cup, and hackathon events.
• Focus on Microsoft products and services within AI/ ML, Modern Workplace, BizApp and Data, Web, Applications, and Azure Infrastructure.
• Network and build relationships with the students and educators and earn their trust and respect for Microsoft technologies.
• Collate product and service feedback to drive growth in the academic developer community.  

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• A Business and/or Technical Degree is required, Software Engineering Degree preferred.  
• Software development experience  
• Experience working with student developer audiences, learning how they make choices about the technologies they use.
• Experience Azure SDKs, APIs.  
• Solid communication skills - ability to be both a strong technical writer as well as a dynamic public speaker.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to translate ideas into various mediums for effective, audience-appropriate consumption.
• Ability to work under deadlines and prioritize projects.  
• Passion for helping connect people and communities to Microsoft technologies inclusive of open source with a particular emphasis on engaging Student developers that are actively learning.  
• Proven experience working with 3rd party communities, social media and blogging preferred).  
• A self-starter that can manage and prioritize initiatives that will make our developers and platform the most successful.  
• Understanding of student developers that are seeking to upskill, and why/how they make choices about the technologies they use.
• You have a “pulse” on the tech industry and a willingness to learn, share, and improve. Ability to self-study; ramp to latest technologies.  
• Travel may be required depending on where local and national developer events are held.
• Language fluency in English plus the primary language for the geographic location of this role.

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.