Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 852757-123737
Division: Applications and Services Engineering
Since Bing launched in June of 2009, the search world has changed for the better. We’re helping people break free from search overload and enabling them to make decisions with Bing’s powerful, friendly tools. We’re attracting new users and changing how people think about Microsoft and Search. We have a long road ahead and we need your help! Key to our continued success in this hypercompetitive space is taking enormous volumes of data and turning them into useful, actionable information to drive increased user engagement through great Bing features and improvements. We’re talking petabytes of data about how searches succeed, how they fail, and how we can improve Bing and our partner properties like maps, commerce, travel, and more.
The Bing Global PM team in Bellevue is looking for a senior program manager to enable key Bing engineering teams to ship their features in international markets. The ideal candidate will have a background in Search and mobile, with deep expertise in globalization, localization, market customization and familiarity with data analysis.
Do you have a passion for shipping products internationally? Do you love working with cool new technologies? Do you like BIG challenges - big scale, big competition, big impact? Bing is becoming an increasingly key component in both Microsoft’s global strategy as well as the strategies of many of our partners, such as Yahoo and Nokia. Your experience and passion can help Bing make a difference worldwide.
As the Marketization Expert, you will leverage this experience and passion to positively impact our customer's experience for a large number of products, features and scenarios worldwide. You will always look for opportunities to optimized budgets without compromising quality. You engage with multiple stakeholders from Bing GDI team, feature PMs, vendors and finance to ensure marketization quality, schedule and cost targets are achieved.
Skills and Qualifications:
As a successful PM in this role, your collaboration and your impact & influence skills will be critical to success. You will be working with key Bing feature teams to help define their internationalization requirements, and then to help them plan and execute on delivering their features to key markets around the world. Bing is a fast-paced, agile environment. Change is constant. Our partners are worldwide. You must be comfortable with and inspired by this sort of environment.
In addition, you have the skills to negotiate win-win solutions with various stakeholders. You are empowered to evangelize your bold and big ideas that moves the needle. At the sametime, you possess the attention to details require for ensuring smooth execution of work on a daily basis.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as a program manager
- Strong track record of delivering results in cross-team situations. Excellent collaboration skills.
- Interest and experience with product globalization (globalization, localization, market customization).
- Experience with process definition and optimization
- Familiarity with agile development methods.
- Able to balance and prioritize competing workloads.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- Comfortable working at all levels of an organization.
- Self-starter and self-motivated.
Bonus
- A MS in CS or the Equivalent
- Certification in Six Sigma or the Equivalent
- Experience with managing Vendor SOWs, Budgets, Performance Targets
- Experience with Marketization concepts, practices and tools is a strong plus
- Experience with shipping products internationally
- Data mining/data analysis skills
- Knowledge of a secondary language is a plus
Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the work place.
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Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 852757-123737
Division: Applications and Services Engineering
Since Bing launched in June of 2009, the search world has changed for the better. We’re helping people break free from search overload and enabling them to make decisions with Bing’s powerful, friendly tools. We’re attracting new users and changing how people think about Microsoft and Search. We have a long road ahead and we need your help! Key to our continued success in this hypercompetitive space is taking enormous volumes of data and turning them into useful, actionable information to drive increased user engagement through great Bing features and improvements. We’re talking petabytes of data about how searches succeed, how they fail, and how we can improve Bing and our partner properties like maps, commerce, travel, and more.
The Bing Global PM team in Bellevue is looking for a senior program manager to enable key Bing engineering teams to ship their features in international markets. The ideal candidate will have a background in Search and mobile, with deep expertise in globalization, localization, market customization and familiarity with data analysis.
Do you have a passion for shipping products internationally? Do you love working with cool new technologies? Do you like BIG challenges - big scale, big competition, big impact? Bing is becoming an increasingly key component in both Microsoft’s global strategy as well as the strategies of many of our partners, such as Yahoo and Nokia. Your experience and passion can help Bing make a difference worldwide.
As the Marketization Expert, you will leverage this experience and passion to positively impact our customer's experience for a large number of products, features and scenarios worldwide. You will always look for opportunities to optimized budgets without compromising quality. You engage with multiple stakeholders from Bing GDI team, feature PMs, vendors and finance to ensure marketization quality, schedule and cost targets are achieved.
Skills and Qualifications:
As a successful PM in this role, your collaboration and your impact & influence skills will be critical to success. You will be working with key Bing feature teams to help define their internationalization requirements, and then to help them plan and execute on delivering their features to key markets around the world. Bing is a fast-paced, agile environment. Change is constant. Our partners are worldwide. You must be comfortable with and inspired by this sort of environment.
In addition, you have the skills to negotiate win-win solutions with various stakeholders. You are empowered to evangelize your bold and big ideas that moves the needle. At the sametime, you possess the attention to details require for ensuring smooth execution of work on a daily basis.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as a program manager
- Strong track record of delivering results in cross-team situations. Excellent collaboration skills.
- Interest and experience with product globalization (globalization, localization, market customization).
- Experience with process definition and optimization
- Familiarity with agile development methods.
- Able to balance and prioritize competing workloads.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- Comfortable working at all levels of an organization.
- Self-starter and self-motivated.
Bonus
- A MS in CS or the Equivalent
- Certification in Six Sigma or the Equivalent
- Experience with managing Vendor SOWs, Budgets, Performance Targets
- Experience with Marketization concepts, practices and tools is a strong plus
- Experience with shipping products internationally
- Data mining/data analysis skills
- Knowledge of a secondary language is a plus
Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the work place.
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