Job Description

In Mixed Reality, people—not devices—are at the center of everything we do.

Our tech moves beyond sensors, screens and pixels to create new realities and new insights aimed at bringing us closer together. To get there, we’re incorporating a diverse set of groundbreaking Mixed Reality technologies, leveraging computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more. We fuse these technologies across a portfolio of first and third-party products ranging from HoloLens to Virtual Reality headsets and Azure-connected sensing devices. We’re a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path.

We’re looking for a talented Program Manager who excels at process and understands engineering systems. In this role, you’ll work across our broad team and with our customers to drive software readiness and release for public sector Mixed Reality solutions.

Responsibilities

• Drive the Engineering schedules and daily coordination for the Build and Validation Rhythm of the Business - across multiple engineering teams and all needed Engineering Systems.
• Work with the Engineering Systems teams to flow code through the best branch/repo structure to support engineering needs and the schedule.
• Partner with Validation to ensure they have clear priorities and resources to cover the work at hand, supporting conversations to unblock or reprioritize as appropriate.
• Release software at known quality and on time for all customer events -
• Partner with internal stakeholders to align and deliver work to schedule & ensure all fixes are processed in a timely manner and make the right ship vehicle.
• Drive release coordination communications for the workstream and to the broader organization.
• Guide the Experiences leads to deliver cohesive and customer impacting release notes with each delivery.
• Partner with the Validation and Telemetry teams on broader projects as needed.
• Collaborate across teams. We win or lose as a team. Program managers play a critical role in creating alignment between partner engineering teams, stakeholders, and what the customer needs. A collaborative attitude is essential to the job.
• Leverage your outstanding written and verbal communication skills to clearly support the program -- deliver daily directional status to workstreams, report out to leadership and partner teams as needed.
• Develop and maintain the internal documentation and processes to support our Build and Validation needs, partnering with the broader Mixed Reality community where work intersects or to leverage Best Practices.
• We need someone with a high tolerance for ambiguity and change, where your goal is to mitigate the impact of both to your workstreams.
  

Qualifications

• 2+ years of Program Management, Product Management and/or Project Management experience.
• Experience working through a complete product cycle preferred (from initial design through post-release maintenance).
• Experience with engineering systems design and/or management
• A high tolerance for ambiguity and change.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
  

This position requires access to information controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the successful candidate must be a "U.S. person" : a natural person (a) who is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20); or (b) who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3); or (c) is subject to an approved license by the applicable government agency.

Requirements

These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings

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

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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