Sr. Program Manager-ARD/STB-China Cloud Innovation Center-SH Job (Shanghai, CN)

Title: Senior Program Manager
Division: Customer Advisory Team (CAT), Microsoft China Cloud Innovation Center

Location: Shanghai China

Hiring manager: Michael Wang

If you would like to work in a challenging and dynamic environment, at the intersection of two of the hottest phenomena in the world today - Cloud and China - this is the perfect job for you.

We’re looking for a high-energy and passionate Senior Program Manager with strong application and middleware development background to work with Chinese customers and partners, helping them adopt Microsoft’s Cloud platforms and build winning solutions.
“Cloud” is a fundamental transformation that will have a profound impact on most aspects of the IT industry. Cloud technologies will also impact China in many ways, as yet known and unknown. Due to a variety of reasons such as regulatory requirements, customer preferences and market dynamics, Cloud requirements in China have some unique characteristics. As such, bringing Microsoft’s Cloud platform to China will require local knowledge and execution, along with strong partnership with product BGs.

Microsoft Server and Tools Business China (STBC) is an R&D organization with a mission to enable STB to win globally as well as locally in the China market. Established in 2005 under the overall umbrella of the Microsoft Asia-Pacific Research & Development (ARD) group, STBC has contributed to the development of core cloud platform products such as Windows Azure, Azure fabric, Windows Server, SQL Server/SQL Azure, Visual Studio, .Net, Systems Center, HPC Server, Small Business Server and others. STB has also established a strong partnership with China SMSG to contribute to the success of STB business in China.

To address the unique opportunity offered by the Cloud transformation in China and align STB’s “Cloud Optimized Every Business” strategy, STBC established China Cloud Innovation Center (CCIC). CCIC has worked in partnership with China SMSG as well as our global product groups to bring our Cloud offerings to the China market and to accelerate MS cloud platform/technology adoption. CCIC focuses on building design wins, reference architectures and case studies for Microsoft’s Cloud platform in China, understanding the specific/unique scenarios, requirements in the China market, and developing China’s Cloud solution ecosystem.

We need highly capable people in China to help fulfill this mission in this fast paced, growing market.

Responsibilities:
- Be a senior technical resource for Private and Public Cloud deployments in China
- Coordinate across Microsoft Sales, Marketing, and R&D
- Aid in architecting and deploying Cloud solutions in China
- Work directly with customers and partners to ensure smooth deployments and highly satisfied customers for Microsoft’s Private and Public cloud solutions
- Identify product and feature scenarios, feedbacks, enhancements across STB Cloud platform products such as Application Fabric, SQL Server, Windows Server…etc.

Requirements:
- Strong knowledge and experience of Microsoft’s STB products (Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server…etc.)
- Deep knowledge of application development platform and technologies, including VS, Biztalk, middleware, WF, WCF…etc., IIS, Sharepoint(MOSS)
- Strong application/system architectural experience
- Understanding of Virtualization, Systems Management, Private / Public Cloud technologies including all layers of the Cloud stack (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) a PLUS
- Must be able to distill complex requirements into actionable feedback to key stakeholders
- Excellent communication, project management skills
- Experienced in working with customers and partners in the China market.
- Fluent in Mandarin and English

The ideal candidate would be self-motivated, passionate about customer engagement, and have a track record of driving projects with multiple stakeholders to success. 7+ previous experience in program Management, consulting services, IT operations or marketing in the IT industry will be preferred.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity

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