Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation Business is looking for a Senior Director of AI for the CTO Office. This role will enable the next generation artificial intelligence specialty compute at scale for datacenter operations. This position will require bringing innovative operations and expertise working with planning, end to end scheduling, engineering design, and operations. 

By defining, qualifying, and implementing new technology solutions, the candidate will bring forth hardware, power, and cooling technologies to enable optimal and automated decision making resulting in improved uptime for our customers and a lower cost of operations.  Success in this role requires deep technical knowledge for defining maturity requirements needed for scale from proof of concept or pilot to MVP (minimum viable product) and scale in a datacenter with deployment, quality, safety, security, and capacity.

The ideal candidate is creative, talented, and experienced with a technical background and expertise in datacenter critical environments (power, cooling, energy, etc). You will collaborate with Advance Development technical subject matter experts (SME), Datacenter Design Engineers, Data Scientists, Supply Chain, Datacenter Operations and Tooling, and other engineering disciplines to develop robust process and solutions in new builds and continuous improvements in existing facilities.  This role will require the candidate to demonstrate strategic vision for growth/scale, technical leadership for execution, as well as to program manage key initiatives, and engage with multiple cross-functional teams. A strong skill set covering engineering project management, problem solving, technical program management, communication, and internal/external partner engagement is required.

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Responsibilities

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Planning:

• Accelerate scale out and scale up of hyperscale capacity. 
• Specify and lead tooling requirements for automated planning processes. 
• Lays out detailed critical path plans and time schedules, actively manages the required tasks, establishes mitigation plans in case of potential delays and implements as required. 
• Knowledge of technical systems to understand customer requests and its relation to defining datacenter infrastructure requirements. 
• Manage dependencies between teams, regionalization, and datacenters.

Execution:

• Ensure expedient deployment and execution of technical programs. Develop plan for transition to sustaining team.
• Apply critical thinking to scope programs and manage challenging programs.
• Develop and drive scalability requirements.  

Delivery:

• Partner with Technical Program Managers and Operations to ensure that transition and acceptance criteria have been met, and that projects are completed and delivered on schedule.
• Oversees cross-divisional teams developing the staging and implementation plan for piloting/release in alignment with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for feature(s)/feature areas. 
• Holds cross-divisional teams accountable by leading governance programs and processes to ensure that specific performance requirements and standards are met throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

6+ years in a leadership position with a provider of cloud, datacenter, utility, or critical environment services.

• 8+ years working in delivering or maintaining cloud capacity or infrastructure.  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of data center processes and technology.
• Expert knowledge of hardware manufacturing or integration processes and technology.
• Ability and interest in operating in technical domains and environments that have ambiguity.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to influence without authority across engineering teams.
• Experience leading critical engineering initiatives that span multiple teams, which often have conflicting priorities and schedules.
• Excellent program management skills and experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communications and interpersonal skills.

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 upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Technical Program Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 per year.
  
Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time. 
 
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