Job Description

As Microsoft continues to develop the Intelligent Cloud & Edge the set of customer experiences will grow every day.  In the Mixed Reality Team, we are focused on enabling those experiences with physical devices like HoloLens as well as new devices as paired with innovative services in Azure.  Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together—whether it is a social gathering in virtual reality or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we are incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.  We are a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, IoT, tablets, and desktops. 

Mixed Reality Gov focuses on building and delivering solutions to the global public sector market; we are obsessively committed to the customer and their mission.   

The Mixed Reality Gov team is seeking a passionate program manager to work across our strategic portfolio of programs to expand our international business and Department of Defense growth strategy. We are looking for a business-oriented professional with a background in defense acquisition and international business.

In this role you will work closely with our user research, hardware, and software engineering teams along with the end-user to bring new capabilities to the MR ecosystem.  You will use your experience to prepare international business plans, coordinate business product strategies for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and other Defense and Intelligence sector customers. The combined market and product strategy will articulate technical and business goals to inform Mixed Reality business ambitions.

Responsibilities

• Identify unmet global defense sector end-user needs that can be solved by current and future Mixed Reality technologies.  
• Author and deliver complete product business strategies for U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and other Defense and Intelligence agencies.
• Support customer teams developing applications and experiences across the Mixed Reality portfolio.  
• Align governmental funding sources (6.1-6.5) to strategic MR initiatives, matriculating and converting customer potential into scale product businesses.   
• Drive operational excellence and continuous business improvements through the establishment of robust and efficient business operating practices and tools across Microsoft’s customer success programs.  
• Build trusted relationships across multiple customer organizations - at all levels - and facilitate the same for others within Microsoft Mixed Reality Gov team. 
• Support international business relationships to accelerate the realization of strategic Mixed Reality business goals.
• You will obsessively support the customer and their mission.  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree (MBA, MPP, or similar)
• 5+ Years of experience working with the Department of Defense.
• 2+ Years of employment in consulting or project management in international business.
• 2+ years of experience building, developing, and fielding ITAR controlled systems.
• 2+ years of experience and understanding of the federal acquisition, planning, programming, budgeting and execution process.
• 1+ years of experience with U.S. Navy acquisitions or Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
  

Additional skills that will be beneficial to the role but are not required:

• Experience with U.S. Air Force acquisition and program management.
• Excellent writing, formal presentation, and interpersonal skills, with a keen ability to communicate ideas effectively with executives and engineering teams.
• A practical and academic understanding of military operations, public policy, and the application of technology to meet DOD and whole of government modernization goals and priorities.
• Experience with DOD 5000 series defense acquisition programs, planning, programming, budgeting, and execution processes.
• Overwhelming ability to synthesize complex information to develop sound operational recommendations.
• Unwavering attention to detail.
• End-user obsession and commitment to deliver results that exceed objectives and expectations.
  

Security Clearance Requirements: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Secret Security Clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

US Citizenship: The successful candidate must be a U.S. Citizen. Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

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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