Senior Fasttrack Program Manager,pan India @ Microsoft

Your areas of responsibility include:

• Working with key stakeholders to collaboratively build The Plan , using your analytical skills to ensure the most impactful Startups receive the right enablement on their journey
• Work closely with FTA engineers in addressing solution needs and driving success with their Azure solution deployments
• Identify opportunities where we can do better for these Startups, incrementally driving improvement across our program and delivery, ultimately delivering increased impact
• Maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders across engineering, sales, services and partner teams, leading and executing a business rhythm that ensures pattern of challenge, opportunity and potential course correction are highlighted
• Coach team members and mentor others in planning, organizing, and coordinating work
• Evangelize and teach others to reach beyond existing solutions and technologies to incorporate new ideas
• Be the voice of Startups within FTA WW, ensuring we create and maintain regular communication rhythms like contributions to newsletters, success stories flipbooks

Attend and contribute to subsidiary review meetings provide feedback to improving engineering contributions and product feedback with Azure BG/PG stakeholders. Track and maintain program hygiene to ensuring all metrics are tracked and reported meticulously

Successful Candidate Competencies:

• Real day-to-day Startup-facing experience and empathy, ideally having worked directly for one or more Startups, or in a role that provides enablement to this partner type
• Experience leading and running a service delivery program, formulating rhythm of business, driving operational improvement, delivering broad targeted communications, and defining measures of success
• Exceptional ability to communicate ideas effectively with executives and engineering teams
• Assembling, leading and working within strong cross-functional groups and matrixed team environments
• Demonstrated skills and abilities to consistently create an amazingly positive experience for Startups
• Track record of problem-solving ranging from conceptualization to implementation
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple workstreams and drive clarity for FTA engineers
• Real-world smart, logical and able to learn new areas quickly
• Familiarity with the culture influence and needs of our India Startups

Qualifications Recommendations:

• 5+ years of direct partner facing experience, conversant with senior IT professionals, backed by a deep understanding of their solution needs
• Proven ability to lead, manage, build and deliver business results through an engineering or professional services team
• Deep technical proficiency in one or more cloud technologies
• Microsoft Azure experience preferred
• Program Management, Project Management, Business Management or Delivery Management experience preferred
• Consulting background a plus
• Experience working in the India region, with a depth understanding of the India Startup ecosystem specifically
• Located in India

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of direct partner facing experience or management consulting, with depth understanding of India Startup ecosystem
• Proficiency in technical concepts including cloud technology and Microsoft Azure

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. 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 every two years.