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Local candidates and permanent residents only eligible for this role


Responsibilities :-

Review functional design/Prepare and execute test plans/Execute automated tests/Create and review test cases, conditions and/or scenarios.
TO BE A QUALFIED CANDIDATEFOR THIS ASSIGNMENT OF Quality Assurance Analyst CANDIDATES REQUIRE:
5 to 7 years Experience in quality assurance and testing
5 to 7 years experience testing a web-based ecommerce application
5+ years experience using SQL query tools such as TOAD
Experience using a defect tracking system
Good understanding of release and quality management processes
Good understanding the projects full life cycle
Strong analytical, problem solving, and testing skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Detailed oriented
Ability to recognize a problem and resolve with little supervision and know when to escalate an issue
Be self motivating while working independently and/or in a team environment

• Ability to work extended hours when needed to meet project deadline, this could include non-standard hours such as evenings and weekends nEEDS TO BE FLEXIBILE
• Demonstrated experience using automated testing tools
• Familiarity with UNIX
• Good knowledge of XML
• SQL and VBScripting required
• eCommerce application testing experience


Qualifications :-

1) eCommerce Web Site Experience - Expert - Required
2) Quality Assurance and Testing - Expert - Required
3)SQL - Intermediate - Required
4) VB Scripting - Intermediate - Required
5) UNIX - Intermediate - Required
6) Understanding of project life cycle - Expert - Required
7) Written and Oral Communication Skills - Expert - Required
8) Ability to Multi-task - Expert - Required
9) Experience with Defect Tracking Tools - Intermediate - Required
10) Experience using automation tools - Intermediate - Required]]>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:58:41 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/senior-program-manager-706062/3-216129We are planning several new high impact commerce initiatives that will address key competitive and strategic requirements. From Azure to new services that are being built, we will be tackling global commerce releases that require secure payment gateways, partner integration including syndication of our services, offer management for fixed and consumption based subscriptions - all of this to fit the needs of small corporate entities to large enterprise customers. Our focus within Online Commerce is to maximize market share and revenue, while closely managing costs through smart automation. We are looking for an experienced, highly-motivated, creative, and passionate Program Manager who can join our team and drive key future scenarios and features. Potential areas of focus include designing new functionality on top of the Azure platform, streamlining the onboarding of services, and many other challenging, multi-division efforts.

This position requires excellent project management, collaboration, communication, and leadership capabilities. The right person will have a passion for taking on hard problems, have demonstrated experience as a creative problem solver, and have an enthusiasm for helping others succeed. Strong communication skills, consumer focus, solid design skills, and the ability to think critically and come up with creative solutions to problems are essential. Must have strong leadership skills and be able to own all aspects of a project. Experience in public speaking is preferred.

The candidate should have a keen sense for how service businesses work, how end users and individual internal and external services interact with billing technologies, and how to optimize for the customer experience with business goals. You should have a passion for and track record of designing and delivering enterprise scale billing systems and you must have strong and demonstrated leadership skills to convince others to follow your lead.

As a Program Manager the person will be responsible for:
Defining and managing project scope for key capabilities of the product, and delivering against the plan.
Identifying and managing program risks, issues, dependencies and working to mitigate the risks and preventing the issues from negatively impacting the program.
Establishing project communication plans and manage relationships with customers, stakeholders, and partners.
Implementing strategies and tactics to track to overall program scope, schedule, budget, and return on investment.

Requirements/Qualifications:
B.A. /B.S. in a relevant technical discipline (computer science, software engineering, etc), eight years related experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.
5+ years of program management experience.
Solid business skills and the ability to effectively negotiate priorities across multiple groups.
Passion for delivering business value through people, process, and technology.
In addition to strong technical skills and computer science background, this position will require substantial knowledge of high scale rating and billing system and the lifecycle of an on-line service.


Industry: Software
Discipline: IT Mngmnt and Project Mngmnt
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Level: Manager
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:20:01 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/general-manager-e-d-manufacturing-supply-chain-information-solutions-703214/22-216106
The General Manager of E&D Manufacturing and Supply Chain Information Solutions reports to the GM of E&D IS and provides high quality, scalable, integrated information solutions that manage all aspects of the business including R&D, Sourcing, High-Tech Electronics Manufacturing, Software Packaging, Supply Chain and Finance. Mature ERP and PLM packages with custom extensions, extensive partner integration and Business Intelligence solutions enable Microsoft to orchestrate and manage a 100% outsourced end to end supply chain. The GM E&D MSC IS is accountable for empowering business success through ongoing development of these assets, directly managing the following functions: business architecture, responsible for client alignment and capabilities roadmap; solutions management responsible for process and solutions analysis and design; program management responsible for engineering delivery.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 15 years of progressive experience leading large scale Enterprise IT functions.
• Demonstrated success in portfolio management including whole lifecycle solution Return On Investment.
• Leadership of global teams in successful delivery of both packaged and custom business solutions
• Experience supporting High Volume High Tech Electronics and Manufacturing & Supply Chain Capabilities
• The GM E&D MSC IS will possess advanced engineering general management competences including analytical problem solving, customer focused innovation, passion for quality, project management, strategic insight and technical excellence.
• Successful exploitation of business performance improvement techniques such as Lean Six Sigma.
• Required leadership qualities include excellent communication skills and strong cross-group collaboration, in particular the ability to agree ambitious performance goals with internal clients and to agree performance expectations with supporting functions.
• People management qualities must include excellent team building and motivation, performance management and employee development including demonstrable leadership development for a large organization including several senior level direct reports.

PREFERRED qualifications, though not required:

• Leadership of IT functions in a Fortune 500 environment.
• MS in computer science.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Supply Chain/Logistics
Experience: 15+ Years
Level: Manager
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:19:54 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/senior-product-manager-windows-live-706313/12-216082
Impact and opportunity
There is not an industry on the planet that is evolving faster than consumer web services. Our established competitors are large and formidable. New competition and industry dynamics sprout up daily. We have a great asset with Messenger and our over 350 million users, but this business is built on a history of being a great IM experience. We are just beginning to become relevant in the social space and have a long road ahead. If you are passionate about competing in this dynamic global marketplace, want to shape consumer perception, looking to join a team where you can have cross-functional impact against aggressive objectives, and up for a great challenge and learning opportunity, then this is the job for you.

Core Responsibilities Include:
You will be in the middle of driving our long term strategy to gain share, grow engagement and drive our business model
You will help define and analyze the key performance indicators for our business success, evaluate the business and competitive landscape, understand customer needs and value drivers, and craft high impact growth strategies that need to be clearly articulated and understood at the highest levels of the company
You will be responsible for developing insights and driving the continuing evolution of our IM and social business
You will drive business priorities and strategy across teams including engineering, marketing, our field and senior executives to drive a coherent and unified business execution that is informed by industry trends and balances competing priorities
You would need to deeply understand our business key performance indicators and measurements and work to drive a consistent view and reporting of the business that has organizational influence and buy-in
You will be an internal and external spokesperson who builds an effective strategy for influence with a compelling narrative that is used to drive regular engagement with customers, influentials and key partners

Qualifications
This is a senior marketing role with a focus on strong product management, business leadership and technology aptitude. The candidate should have strategic marketing and leadership capabilities coupled with a strong business aptitude that will enable you to build credibility with both cross-functional teams and senior leadership. Building collaborative relationships across the organization, motivating and leading that organization and your immediate team to achieve market impact will be essential. The candidate must be a highly motivated self-started. A BS/A with 6+ years of experience in a related field is required. An MBA, experience in general management (or strategy) consulting and past technology experience is preferred.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Product Marketing
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:19:51 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/enterprise-technology-strategist-compete-sales-engineer-cloud-google-compete-706138/3-216061Base: @ $130K+/-
Incentive: @ $40K+/-
OTE: @ $170K+/-
Stock Shares upon hire
Travel: 20% if in Redmond, 50% if not in Redmond

COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIST FOR ONLINE/BPOS/Cloud Computing: Office, Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and BPOS (product associations)

Do you have passion to learn, compete and win Do you have working knowledge of SaaS, S+S and/or on-line business software solutions Do you have proven experience with business productivity value selling Are you familiar with the Microsoft Office System, BPOS and the competitive landscape including Google Apps, Gmail and/or Zoho Do you also have world-class communications skills If so, you may be ready to join our Customer Advocacy and Technology Management (CATM) team as an Enterprise Technology Strategist. As an Enterprise Technology Strategist, your primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to: persuading our largest enterprise customers’ business and technical decision makers of the superior business value and technical capabilities of our products and our long-term vision and strategy. You’ll present to customers at the $100 million Executive Briefing Center on Microsoft’s main corporate campus in Redmond, Washington. As an Enterprise Technology Strategist, you will also travel around the world to assist local Microsoft account teams in closing large enterprise licensing deals in competitive sales situations. You’ll build a record of accomplishment that includes building stronger enterprise customer relationships and securing the adoption of Microsoft technology worth millions of dollars per year in revenue.

Enterprise Technology Strategists enjoy one of the most visible positions at Microsoft. In addition to senior level interaction with our largest customers, Enterprise Technology Strategists periodically present to Microsoft’s own executive staff, to the Microsoft enterprise sales organization and at Microsoft conferences worldwide. They are highly sought after by Microsoft sales teams for their advice in tough competitive situations and simultaneously work with Microsoft’s product development teams to share competitive insights and recommendations.

To be successful in this exciting and demanding role, Enterprise Technology Strategists must possess world-class presentation skills as well as solid technical and business knowledge of both Microsoft and competitive technologies. Successful Enterprise Technology Strategists have great communication and relationship-building skills, are sincerely customer focused, are action oriented, deal well with ambiguity, think strategically, and are self-starters. As a basis for success, candidates for this role should have 5-8 years’ of directly relevant experience at a minimum. Candidates with technical sales experience around email and collaboration are especially encouraged to apply.




Industry: Software
Discipline: Prof. Svcs/Consulting
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Compensation: $170K
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:19:44 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/software-development-engineer-in-test-senior-706639/3-216016- Innovating on how we test Software + Services in Microsoft.
- Archiving large volumes of data (petabytes or exabytes) over a highly available storage that never goes down.
- Working alongside with the FAST team to make sure the new search host is best-of-breed for e-mail search.
- Expand the reach of the Calendar area through Sharing of the calendar data with friends and business partners using Live Services.
- Improve the current mail clients (Outlook, OWA, Phones, Entourage) through feature development and close collaboration.
- Working in a group with a mature test system that allows team members to focus on growing their skills.

If all this sounded interesting then read on.

The Exchange Mailbox Server team is looking for a creative and motivated Senior Software Design Engineer in Test (Senior SDET) to join our growing email server business. Our products are used worldwide and are at the cutting edge of the communications industry. This position primary responsibilities include writing programs to test Exchange Server Interfaces, designing and implementing automated tools, participating and/or coordinating cross group efforts. This includes studying component designs, functions, and usage scenarios to design and code automated tests at the component and functional level using C#. This position will require you to work independently and coordinate with other SDETs and developers to design, maintain, and develop test tools and automation. Experience with Windows 2003/2008, XML, SQL and/or protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, or MAPI are also preferred.

Ideal candidates will have a:
7+ years of industry development experience in an OOP such as C# of C++
5+ years Test or Automation, Tool Development Experience
Bachelor’s or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, or mathematics of equivalent work experience


Industry: Software
Discipline: Quality Assurance
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:19:24 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/senior-software-development-engineer-703901/3-215916
The Windows Live Safety Platform (WLSP) team protects our customers and services from abuse. We aim to put a stop to spammers, phishers, malware distributors, BOT-networks and other forms of online criminal activities. We make the internet safe for children.

The team is made up of four key company-wide efforts:
(1) Anti-Spam: Enables solutions for various email products across the company - Hotmail, Outlook, Exchange, EHS, and Windows Mail.
(2) Anti-Phishing: Provides phishing filter and backend technologies for Internet Explorer.
(3) Family Safety: Makes the internet a safe environment though the Windows Live Family Safety & Parental controls.
(4) Data Intelligence: This team goes after perpetrators of online abuse - we identify them, collaborate with partners to develop policies to thwart their operations, help take down their existing infrastructure and educate users so they don’t become victims to their lures. This team brings together Internet security related information from silos around Microsoft - e-mail spam, phishing, malware distribution, click fraud, botnets, etc. - and uses sophisticated Data Mining algorithms to make the result more valuable than the sum of the parts.

We implement cutting edge research from a dedicated Applied Research team to identify security threats on the internet and use the data to improve our products. For example, we are producing suspicious IP addresses for use by LiveID to mitigate signup abuse.
We are looking for a talented software engineer to design and implement solutions that help Windows, Internet Explorer and Office users make more informed trust/security decisions using Windows Live services.

Qualified candidate should have the following skills/experience:
Excellent coding skills (C++/Win32/C#)
Solid technical aptitude and problem solving skills, good collaboration and communication skills, take initiative, and must be result driven
Strong debugging skills
Experience working in an agile environment with software deployed in a operational environment
A BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related fields with 7 years experience as a developer

WLXJobs - WLSP - Dev


Industry: Software
Discipline: SW Design/Dev
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:18:20 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/global-communication-strategist-705792/20-215908
SBG leads the company’s efforts in launching new products to build new businesses for the company. The SBG communications strategist is responsible for creating and executing game changing approaches to public relations. You will drive business results for the division’s line-up of products including launching of new technologies and ongoing communications for Microsoft OneApp The person in this role has a proven track record of launching products, building B2C as well as B2B businesses. You know how to create messages that enable you to engage in meaningful conversations with different audiences leveraging both traditional and digital communication channels.

Working across the marketing team, and the product teams, the SBG media strategist sets the context, position the product and tells its story through dynamic media and digital approaches focused on a global basis.
Ideal candidates have a deep technology understanding and are able to easily translate and communicate technology and product vision into compelling stories that will resonate and break through with media and influencers. Explicit accountabilities for success include reach metrics, tone, message pull thru, % site traffic, and awareness/$.

Responsibilities include:
1. Drive media strategy and relations for each of the products in SBG with support from agency teams
2. Integrate seamlessly with digital communications strategies
3. Identify and realize synergies through collaboration with internal and external media teams
4. Manage senior executive communications
5. Develop content and materials for internal and external use
6. Manage agency resources and vendor support
7. All of the above in a global setting
Candidates must have at least 10+ years of proven and solid PR experience, a passion for the positive impact of technology, exceptional written and verbal communication skills and have demonstrable experience in managing a portfolio of products on a global level. The candidate must have PR experience in launching new technology products and be able to demonstrate creative yet data driven results. Competency in the digital media landscape, combined with basic knowledge of Microsoft products and services and the technology industry are required.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Communications
Experience: 11 - 15 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:18:19 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/software-development-engineer-in-test-senior-exchange-706492/3-215804- Innovating on how we test Software + Services in Microsoft.
- Archiving large volumes of data (petabytes or exabytes) over a highly available storage that never goes down.
- Working alongside with the FAST team to make sure the new search host is best-of-breed for e-mail search.
- Expand the reach of the Calendar area through Sharing of the calendar data with friends and business partners using Live Services.
- Improve the current mail clients (Outlook, OWA, Phones, Entourage) through feature development and close collaboration.
- Working in a group with a mature test system that allows team members to focus on growing their skills.

If all this sounded interesting then read on.

The Exchange Mailbox Server team is looking for a creative and motivated Senior Software Design Engineer in Test (Senior SDET) to join our growing email server business. Our products are used worldwide and are at the cutting edge of the communications industry. This position primary responsibilities include writing programs to test Exchange Server Interfaces, designing and implementing automated tools, participating and/or coordinating cross group efforts. This includes studying component designs, functions, and usage scenarios to design and code automated tests at the component and functional level using C#. This position will require you to work independently and coordinate with other SDETs and developers to design, maintain, and develop test tools and automation. Experience with Windows 2003/2008, XML, SQL and/or protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, or MAPI are also preferred.

Ideal candidates will have a:
7+ years of industry development experience in an OOP such as C# of C++
5+ years Test or Automation, Tool Development Experience
Bachelor’s or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, or mathematics of equivalent work experience


Industry: Software
Discipline: SW Design/Dev
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:15:06 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/product-manager-705229/12-215748This Education Leaders Execution Capacity Building role will focus on building integrated highly creative strategies and plans for engaging Education Leaders, through aligned messaging and engagement strategies, subsidiary optimization and world class execution. Key to the success of this role will be the ability to understand how to lead execution, improving Education Leaders NFAV, promoting consistency in landing Top Stories and supporting corporate leaders and subsidiaries to engage their Ministries of Education and other Education Leaders through Education Alliance Agreements, including a strong focus on driving and landing National Academic PC deals in countries who are ready to engage in this approach. Key to success is the ability to work across other audience efforts and bring together disparate v-teams through an Education Alliance approach to support effective area and subsidiary execution.

Key responsibilities include:
• Execution Capacity Leadership – leading, coaching and inspiring areas and subsidiaries in an aligned more powerful approach to engaging and enabling education leaders worldwide with Microsoft’s education vision, partnerships, programs and solutions. This includes a solid plan to develop, manage, scale, measure and message the Education Leaders strategy and plans with the field. Example: Leading the Education Leaders Areas Field Council to support scaling institution, educator and student programs
• Strategic Marketing – promote and drive the education vision, messaging, execution plans, measurement and align resourcing to build excitement around the Education Leaders Audience in the field, growing influence with Citizenship, LSE and Community Affairs to have a one Microsoft approach towards Education priorities with government elites. You will also represent the Education Leaders Audience in critical stakeholder meetings across the company and with outside organizations. Examples: ROB, QBR, Exec Reviews
• Field Engagement and Readiness – work with the Education Area and Subsidiary Leads, and Education Leaders Area and Subsidiary Leads in an Education Alliance approach to align resources and execution for this and future fiscal years to land Education Leaders planning built into Education Alliance plans locally. Build a strong community that empowers leaders to help each other and scale best practices that are proven to be successful. Examples: Leadership for Education Vision tour and our work with Education Impact.
• Creative Partnering – To create interesting and effective programs, offers and engagement opportunities for Education Leaders, it will require partnering with organizations whose reputation, accreditation and existing education engagement is high profile and valuable to the community. Additionally, working with government and other organizations that influence international, national and state education standards, policy, vision, strategies and investments, and other influencers will be strategic. Examples: Managing the CISCO/Intel/Microsoft partnership and ensuring it lands in the field with maximum impact and ROI.

The ideal candidate for this position must also exhibit the following:
• The ability to manage executive relationships, high level field engagements and strategic leadership across company decision makers
• Successful record of driving impact and influence in cross team and cross functional environments, as well as in the field at subsidiary and area levels
• Strength in relationship management and core communications
• Ability to influence without authority and drive a shared vision amongst several stakeholders
• Aptitude to build strategic plans, tactical execution and understanding how to make necessary course corrections to build long term and short term success
• A true commitment to the Education Leaders/Strategic Partnerships/Customer Experience
• Executive Maturity

The ideal candidate will have at minimum:
• An undergraduate degree
• 10+ years of marketing and/or program management experience, with significant education, public and/or education policy and field experience
• Be a creative strategic thinker with the ability to ensure (and a passion for) strong cross-group collaboration and great tactical execution
• A demonstrated knowledge of sales and marketing organizations and processes, and demonstrated achievements in orchestrating effective field readiness and program execution.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to write, speak and present information effectively and persuasively through various communications channels


Industry: Software
Discipline: Product Marketing
Experience: 11 - 15 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:14:07 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/industry-marketing-manager-application-platform-marketing-706310/1-215698
We are looking for a driven and experienced marketing professional to build out or strategies and plans with the industry and customer marketing teams across the company, to take advantage of this huge opportunity. Specifically this role will be chartered with driving:

• Microsoft’s strategy and vision for the application platform business across the key industry and vertical teams. This includes building the business plans to drive growth and focus on key opportunities with General Managers in the industry/sector teams, tracking the implementation of these plans, and evaluating investments the business should make to get the required return on investment.
• Be the central business strategy leader for our industry approach within the application platform team - deeply understanding the business drivers, evangelizing the industry team strategies within the application platform BG to gain broad support, and functioning as the key liaison for the industry teams across the planning, execution and reporting rhythms of the company (WWSMM, PRISM, MYR).
• Deliver insight into the marketing priorities of the industry teams, lead the effort around value proposition and competitive differentiation for key industry/Solution Areas, and partner with our campaign team to drive this intelligence and strategy into the marketing bill-of-materials.
• Lead the tier-1 marketing push for the division - deliver the all up strategy, correct value proposition, competitive marketing insights and shift the bar on mission-critical perception, and sales traction in key workloads for a $3B+ revenue business.
• Define the spec for tier-1 customer evidence and proof, working with the customer evidence team and analyst and benchmarking teams to drive the right proof - and then market that proof through our tier-1 marketing plan.

This position is a highly visible one that involves both developing key business and marketing strategies with teams and senior leaders, and driving marketing execution across complex programs. It requires extensive cross-group coordination at all levels, superior communication skills, and a relentless drive for results - keeping our critical business, customer and competitive goals in sight at all times.
Senior candidates with a minimum of 10 years of relevant enterprise software marketing, sales or services experience are preferred. Experience in marketing/selling high-end systems in and industry context is a definite plus.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Brand/Seg/General Mngmt
Experience: 11 - 15 Years
Level: Manager
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:13:33 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/bus-planning-comms-mgr-705834/20-215694Are you an insightful, organized and driven person who wants to make an impact If so, Worldwide Licensing and Pricing is the place for you! We are responsible for creating and execution of volume licensing strategy, programs and infrastructure which are delivering half of Microsoft’s revenue - $30B p.a. While driving the core business model of Microsoft we at the same time play a fundamental role in developing and enabling monetization of key strategic investments like Software + Services. We are also managing Microsoft Financing - captive financing arm of MS - 3rd largest in the global IT sector with $2B of annual originations.
WWLP is comprised of a comprehensive set of business functions: product management, licensing program development, IT platforms and tools, marketing, field readiness, pricing, captive financing and global business desk.
The Role
The Business Planning & Communications Manager position is a part of WWLP Business Management Office, reporting to WWLP Business Manager.
The role is responsible for developing and managing Worldwide Licensing and Pricing (WWLP) internal communications. The two primary areas of responsibility are managing the internal WWLP employee experience through appropriately timed, targeted and positioned communications and driving WWLP’s engagement with key stakeholders.
Business Planning & Communications Manager would work closely with WWLP executives and broadly with Microsoft executives to promote the WWLP strategic direction -- messaging targeted audiences including all levels of WWLP employees, managers, Microsoft executives and business leaders. The ability to craft compelling, well-timed communications is critical. The Business Planning & Communications Manager would carry the fundamentals of the messaging through business and strategy communications to drive perceptions, educate, and influence audiences.
The Core Job Responsibilities
Design and develop the internal communication plan. This includes setting the goals of the communication plan, determining right approach and process to reach the appropriate audiences and to monitor impact and results of the communications to drive improvement of WWLP perception and business impact.
Aligning the plan with WWLP RoB, strategic and FY plans, SLT travel schedule, goals of WWLP Scorecard (in close coordination with Business Manager and Business Planning & Execution Manager).
Responsible for information design, including selecting the right medium, context, and structure, to create the most effective communication while employing the most compelling assets.
Manage the employee communication experience for the organization, including driving on-boarding/exit experience plan, and production/facilitation of All Hands events.
On-going production (as needed) of executive presentations, decks, e-mails, interviews, videos etc.
Managing WWLP internal SharePoint site
Identify and plan communication opportunities with WWLP’s stakeholders that support the WWLP strategic plan.
Align and coordinate with the external WWLP and Volume Licensing Business Marketing & Communications group.
This role will also manage external vendors on content, design and production work as needed.
Qualifications:
BA required, communications related degree preferred, MBA preferred,
8+ years relevant business experience,
Outstanding verbal and written communication,
Communication style ranging from high-touch messaging to structured & business oriented content.
Demonstrated strategic communications skills,
Ability to work effectively within all levels of the organization, from executives to individual contributors,
Excellent organizational, project management and problem-solving skills,
Manages confidentiality without exception; demonstrates outstanding judgment,
Ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously,
Excellent cross group collaboration,
Power user of SharePoint, PowerPoint, Live Meeting and other communication technologies,
Demonstrated ability to have fun.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Communications
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Level: Manager
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:13:19 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/senior-software-development-engineer-application-software-extreme-computing-705794/3-215593
The Extreme Computing Group (XCG) in Microsoft Research is chartered to rethink computing at extreme scale- from alternative quantum computing models, through the revolutionary effects of heterogeneous, many core parallelism, to the massive cloud computing infrastructure and applications. The Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) team, within XCG, is developing an innovative hardware and software platform to facilitate easy cloud-based software development, reduce acquisition and operational costs in the datacenter, and improve reliability and robustness. Our goal is to investigate and demonstrate the innovations that will give Microsoft a competitive advantage, and will enable developers to easily create massively scalable cloud applications. To achieve this end, our projects span low-level system development on cutting-edge hardware, efficient power distribution and cooling, server FRU design, innovative networking technologies and topologies, programming languages, and tools. We are also developing innovative cloud computing applications that will showcase the true power of cloud computing

We are seeking a senior software development engineer with deep knowledge of distributed applications, web-technologies, multi-tier application domains, enterprise SOA, middleware, large-scale web-services, and databases. The candidate should have demonstrated experience designing & implementing reliable, performant and scalable web-services, and should be familiar with the state of the art in areas ranging from distributed systems to cloud computing. The candidate should have passion for disruptive technology & innovation, eagerness to learn and grow, and enjoy creative thinking and building large-scale application/middleware technologies while promoting a collegial and collaborative environment.

The successful candidate will be proficient in dealing with ambiguity, possess solid communication skills, be an effective problem-solver, and must be a fluent programmer.

Responsibilities:
- Design & development of large-scale, online application/middleware software
- Collaborate with customers and partners, internal and external, to build & transfer disruptive cloud computing technologies leveraging latest hardware.
- Potentially manage vendors and/or contractors
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience designing, implementing & deploying world-class SOAP/WS*/REST enabled web-services. Fluent coding skills in C/C++/C# languages are required.
- Being able to juggle multiple priorities, is required.
- Prior experience in designing and implementing world-class social networking applications is a big plus.
- Prior experience or understanding in the area of operating systems, middleware, and virtualization is a plus.
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent) is required. Masters or PG degree is a plus.
- Ability to work effectively in an agile, startup-like environment


Industry: Software
Discipline: SW Design/Dev
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:09:16 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/development-lead-senior-exchange-706427/3-215565
Help shape the future of engineering productivity in the Exchange Team, and deliver both software and software as a service to millions of users. The Exchange team is looking for a qualified development lead to lead a team delivering great engineering infrastructure features into the Exchange engineering team that allows them to deliver the industry-leading Exchange Server production in addition to providing email service to millions of users.

The Lead SDE in this role will manage a development team responsible for the core engineering infrastructure components focused on increasing the agility of a 500+ person engineering team. Elements of the core engineering infrastructure components includes an agile orchestration (workflow) system providing set services (e.g. job scheduling, resource matcher, topology builder, job dispatching, and task execution engine) allowing other infrastructure teams to build numerous set of services and applications. This role will interact closely with the Development and Test across all of the Exchange Product and Outlook Live teams.

Qualifications:
8+ years industry experience with a strong "Hands-On" in services/application/tools development and deployment.
4+ years of experience leading development teams.
8+ years hands experience with OOP such as C++ or C#
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated work experience in the full ship cycle of commercial software products, and the ability to effectively communicate in written form.
Passion for engineering quality & development discipline excellence.

Experience with Technologies & Tools:
Rock solid experience with SQL
Experience with ASP.Net, ADO.NET, .NET Remoting, Powershell, Web Services, JavaScript, .NET framework.
Experience with high performance distributed architectures a big plus.
Experience in writing both Rich-Client and Web applications.
Excellent technical skills, attention to detail, strong debugging and problem solving skills.
Good understanding of SQL Replication, IIS, load balancing & clustering.

Required Abilities:
Strong background on software development processes, patterns and practices.
Proven track record of writing code that delivers highly availability services.
A great ability to get a team excited and strong cross group collaboration skills.


Industry: Software
Discipline: SW Design/Dev
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:08:05 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/senior-product-manager-705168/12-215545
Overview:

This position is responsible for driving and coordinating the overall business strategy for digital media, entertainment and games in Windows. Primary responsibilities include, but not limited to drive the launch and marketing digital media and gaming offerings in Windows 7, to drive strategy and business decisions associated with ongoing improvements to the Windows 7 media and gaming experience, and to represent the voice of the business with Windows product planning.

This position requires effective collaboration with product marketing, PR, product planning, engineering, business development and finance. This position also requires extensive cross-group coordination, strong business leadership; and the ability to deliver comprehensive business reviews to senior leaders.

To be successful in this role, you should possess subject matter expertise for the digital media and gaming industry as well as Windows entertainment features and technology. Candidates should have a demonstrated ability to think creatively, to effectively communicate recommendations at all levels of the company, and be able to drive process and structure in a dynamic environment.

Key responsibilities:

- Definitive marketing subject matter expertise in Internet Television, Windows Codec support, advanced multi-media and power gaming scenarios, and technologies within Windows which enhance the overall gaming experience.
- Develop “best in class” key product management deliverables including value proposition, positioning docs, feature naming, whitepapers, competitive and market intelligence reports, and other materials.
- Work with customers, partners, Microsoft stakeholders and researchers to identify and quantify trends and emerging opportunities within the digital entertainment market and develop and evangelize recommendations to capitalize on potential opportunities.
- Influence partner recommendations, and support the business development team with consensus building and negotiation leverage.
- Track business development around premium content offerings on an ongoing basis, and work cross group to drive solutions to improve business performance.
- Evangelize Windows and the digital entertainment features and experiences both internally and externally including attending analyst briefings, press tours/engagements, trade shows and other marketing events.
- Support the product planning efforts for the development and ongoing evolution of the Windows entertainment business strategy.

Requirements:
- Strategic thinking and analytical skills, excellent written and verbal communication, and the ability to achieve objectives and deliver results on multiple projects
- A strong passion and affinity for digital entertainment and experience in the entertainment and consumer electronics
- Demonstrated excellence in product management and consumer marketing is required
- A minimum of 8 years experience in product management, marketing, or product planning
- BS/BA required, MBA preferred


Industry: Software
Discipline: Product Marketing
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:07:24 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/hr-manager-er-investigations-705171/1-215533
Microsoft is looking for a dynamic individual interested in sharing the vision of the Employee Relations Investigations Team to positively impact the employee experience by helping to preserve an environment where employee relations concerns are addressed in an objective, thorough, and timely manner. If this sounds like you, consider a position as HR Manager on the Employee Relations Investigations Team (ERIT) team as your next career move.

Responsibilities include:

Investigations/ER Consulting
Conduct comprehensive and timely investigations of complex employee relations issues that arise.
Apply legal requirements related to investigations in scenarios that are complex and broad in scope, consulting with LCA as needed.
Uphold and enforcing company policies and guidelines related to equal employment opportunity, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination, and business conduct.
Partner with the HR Generalists to ensure that they investigate employee relations issues in a comprehensive and timely manner.
Assist in the tracking, trending, and analysis of employee relations issues across the company.
Provide recommendations for resolution of employee relations issues to HR Generalists.
Identify investigation/ER issue trends, and collaborate with HR Leadership, Generalist, and Managers to develop proactive measures to reduce future complaints.
Collaborate in the development and implementation trainings to increase HR Generalists’ capabilities on how to conduct investigations, and to increase awareness of relevant employment law and legal issues driving employee relations investigations.
Partner with other investigative teams such as the Financial Integrity Unit, Corporate Security, and the Office of Legal Compliance.

HR Program Improvement / Design / Implementation
Collaborate with the ERIT Manager to improve ER investigation effectiveness by improving/redesigning the ER investigations process in the US and in Microsoft’s international subsidiaries, resulting in a positive impact for HR, managers and employees across the organization.
Collaborate with the ERIT Manager to implement any redesign of the ER investigations process through follow-up and hands-on assistance to ensure an inclusive environment is created and maintained.
Collaborate with the ERIT Manager and team to build strong relationships among international regions and corporate HR staff which result in improved exchange and partnership.

Qualifications:
6-8+ years of related experience and bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree preferred.
Experience leading the design and implementation of HR programs with broad organizational impact.
Extensive experience conducting (lead investigator) and consulting on complex ER investigations.
Ability to identify and define problems and develop and implement solutions.
Ability to research information and analyze data to arrive at valid conclusions, recommendations, and plans of action.
Ability to prepare comprehensive investigation reports and represent ideas clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Ability to exercise considerable judgment and discretion.
Strong partnering, diplomacy, collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills are critical.
Ability to handle highly sensitive information with absolute confidentiality and professionalism.
Ability to multi-task, deal with ambiguity, and work collaboratively in a team environment.
Demonstrated knowledge of HR practices and federal and state employment laws.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace.



Industry: Software
Discipline: HR Management
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Level: Manager
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:06:44 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/senior-product-manager-705169/12-215447
1) Helping realize the immediate potential of the Windows 7 upgrade business by working with Window UX and the marketing team to refine consumer-oriented positioning and technical documentation based on customer feedback post-Windows 7 General Availability. You will also focus on defining upgrade scenarios for the future in order to optimize our upgrade business in relation to other revenue streams.
2) Working with the development teams and OEM to create next generation of extensibility opportunities for our OEM partners. Cross-group team will define our future strategy in this area as well as manage existing policies for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
3) Representing consumer product management on support and lifecycle matters, including end of sales, end of support, and the Microsoft Answers implementation.

More Details:
As we look to migrate our customer base to Windows 7, we will need to continue to refine our approach to find the right mix of upgrades vs new PC sales through communication and education. In this role, you would work with the UX team as well as your peers in Windows marketing to land this in the marketplace. At the same time, you will work collaboratively across various development groups and marketing to define the key upgrade scenarios to address then identify ways to support that opportunity through the product planning cycle.

Additionally, our OEM partners support the Windows platform by pre-installing Windows on their hardware systems. We must work innovatively to ensure the right balance of extensibility is allowed across for OEMs to maximize their brand and revenue opportunities, while preserving Microsofts core brand, image and strategy. In this role, you would look at this complex issue with an innovative approach to enable greater flexibility for our partners to drive differentiation, while balancing Microsoft’s own interests.

We’re looking for a talented product manager to work in a highly collaborative environment to manage the opportunity for Windows 7 as well as develop a holistic strategy for transforming the next generation of the Windows business.

Qualifications:
1) Minimum 5 years experience in strategic planning, project/business management and program development, with demonstrated expertise in creative problem solving and consensus building/collaboration.
2) Minimum 2+ years working closely with partners on large projects, preferably OEMs.
3) Demonstrated self-starter with the ability to drive to results in ambiguous environments
4) Demonstrated excellent presentation and communication skills, including ability to demo to large audiences. Ability to reduce complex ideas/strategies to clear, actionable direction.
5) A BA/BS in marketing, business, communications, computer science or related discipline. MBA preferred.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Product Marketing
Experience: 5 - 7 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:42 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/product-manager-senior-uc-marketing-703095/12-215426
The UC Marketing Team is looking for an experienced product manager to work closely with our Voice field organization to build our sales capabilities and scale our sales capacity for Voice solutions. This is an exciting and challenging position within Microsoft with significant exposure to the fast growing Voice and Unified Communications market. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the Microsoft field organization as well as across the UC marketing team to drive both short-term and long-term business objectives.

In this role, you will be responsible for:
- Growing our field sales organization by developing programs to recruit, hire and train new field team members
- Driving the Voice field training programs including new hire training camps and annual field sales summit
- Developing the sales playbooks, guidance and targeting programs to coordinate and focus field sales efforts
- Creating the territory and accounting planning guidance and tools to support field sales teams
- Developing sales process guidance and capturing best practices to improve field sales effectiveness
- Producing win wire reports and other communications to build the field sales community and sharing
- Developing sales manager meeting programs and content

The ideal candidate will have:
- Exceptional communication skills and an ability collaborate across organizational boundaries
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to work in a dynamic environment
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver them on-time and on-strategy
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Understanding of the enterprise software sales process
- Understanding of the telecommunications industry; Voice Over IP market experience preferred
- Minimum of 5-10 years of enterprise software experience
- MBA or equivalent experience preferred
SCTL


Industry: Software
Discipline: Product Marketing
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:24 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/consultant-program-manager-705835/22-215416The OEM Consulting group is a customer facing team that drives MS technology adoption across the multi-billion dollar OEM/ODM ecosystem. We are looking for a technical program manager to drive a OEM/ODM consulting engagements This position will lead consulting engagements and work across Microsoft, deliver against defined projects. Key to the success of this role is the ability to develop and maintain trusted working relationships with key accounts and relevant Microsoft product groups, while providing leadership and focus on the key issues impacting the customer experience or blocking Microsoft technology adoption. A successful candidate should be able to think strategically about technical and business issues; understand a wide range of technologies and be able to drill down on specific issues to assess customer impact; synthesize feedback into detailed recommendations; present and defend recommendations to a variety of audiences, such as executives, program managers, and developers. Candidate should also be a self-starter who can manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive them to completion effectively. Such projects will demand strong working relationships and interactions with customers, senior executives, technical leaders, and product groups within Microsoft. This position has frequent contact with all levels of Microsoft managers and employees and frequent contact with key partners around the world.
Qualifications include:
- a minimum of 7 years experience in the high-tech industry as a customer/partner facing developer, test engineer, program manager, support professional, presales engineer, or consultant.
- Successful candidate should have strong technical writing skills and the ability to effectively communicate with customer managers and executives on technical and business issues.
- Strong organizational, project management, and written/verbal communication skills are critical.
- Travel 20-25% (some brief periods may be up to 40-50%)


Industry: Software
Discipline: Project/Process Mngmnt
Experience: 8 - 10 Years
Level: Manager
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:13 -0800http://redmond.ipsojobs.com/job/operations-architect-706229/3-215405 Apply strong technical knowledge across networking, hardware sizing, clustering/load balancing, infrastructure and network topology design across a wide range of technologies and platforms such as Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server, including provisioning of these platforms.

Use professional concepts in accordance with company objectives to solve extremely complex problems in creative and effective ways. Leads development of new theories and methods. Works on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

Conceptualize, design, implement and maintain physical system architecture to enable near term tactical and long term strategic objectives.

Oversee system implementation and capacity expansion projects involving emerging technologies and provide accurate guidance across multiple projects in an agile manner.

Define the processes, tools and skills required to achieve a repeatable, economic service level management environment, including the change management program required to involve the IT Operations organization with the system development and strategic architecture processes at the appropriate moment in the build process.

Establish criteria and perform technology evaluations including lab analysis and proof of concept along with supporting analysis and documentation.

Design and implement infrastructure management approach and recommend appropriate logging, monitoring, reporting and alerting framework and implementation.


Develop plans to rectify current state issues as well as extend the current state environment in response to future state systems development/placement/retirement strategies•

Assess current state of network, execution, and operations security environment; Identify and prioritizes security risks and threats; plan remediation to security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines. Identify appropriate audit and outsourcing opportunities.

Develop operational goals as well as system specifications.

Monitor analysis of complex infrastructure components and identify best solutions for efficient system operations.

Exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Research and distill technology trends in the industry technology landscape, leading edge technologies, and explain their impact on the enterprise architecture.

Understand vendor marketplaces for primary technology components (HW, SW, Network, SAN, etc)

Negotiate technical design and deployment strategies with internal stakeholders and external service providers.

Apply strong communication and relationship skills to communicate complex technical information to all stakeholders of a project, including those who do not have a technical background.

Apply strong management, team building and leadership skills to focus and drive a team that has multiple simultaneous high-priority projects ongoing while maintaining overall alignment to long term vision.

Qualifications:
BS degree or higher in CS with a minimum of 10 years of relevant, broad engineering experience. MS in Computer Science preferred.

Deep hands-on technical expertise building complex distributed enterprise systems. Experience with agile software development practices desired.

Strong technical expertise in Storage Area Network design, UNIX, Network Protocols, EMC storage devices, Capacity Planning, Network Operations and EMC software is needed.

Broad and deep technical knowledge server OS systems, back office applications, web and application services, relational / ISAM databases, connectivity services, storage, backup and recovery, and systems management concepts and techniques is essential.

Strong analytical skills that can be applied to gather appropriate data, synthesizing it and driving resulting decisions through adoption.

Strong customer and partner relationships management, budget management and enterprise operational expertise is required.

Experience ensuring operational readiness associated with large-scale business solutions

Excellent oral and written communication skills; active listening ability and substantial experience presenting persuasive recommendations and supporting facts to Executives using Microsoft Office tools

Must have strong technical knowledge with hands-on experience in a variety of computing architectures and environments.

Good communication skills are a must. Proven leadership and relationship management skills are needed.

Excellent analytical, creativity, and problem solving ability.

Demonstrated ability to define/ refine processes, build consensus, and act as a change agent.

Detail and results oriented with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.

3 years of mandatory experience in managing operations teams executing on large, complex enterprise projects

Team-building skills and a strong leader with excellent coaching/mentoring abilities

Technology and implementation planning and cost estimating

A strong belief that technology can be a critical enabler in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of business operations

Natural self starter, self motivated

Ability to influence others across the organization through formal and informal channels

Ability to instantly develop a strong rapport and build relationships with clients

Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Extremely proactive with a strong bias for action, naturally inquisitive, desire to continuously improve current business practices / processes

Unwavering personal integrity

Professional consulting experience is desirable to enhance client-oriented approach.


Industry: Software
Discipline: Sales/Technical Support
Experience: 11 - 15 Years
Compensation: $100K+
Company: Microsoft Corporation]]>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:02 -0800