Jobs at Microsoft

Overview

Are you passionate about improving customer battery life/power consumption/thermals and making applications run faster? Are you passionate about understanding the intricacies of the operating system and improving it to delight our customers? Are you passionate about reducing carbon footprint impact from software energy use? Our team works on the full stack across hardware partners, OS, Shell, applications, and ecosystem to protect, improve and manage battery life and performance every release across Windows and Devices. The skills that we apply are of a correspondingly broad range, including trace analysis and automated bulk trace processing tools, Data pipelines/reports, machine learning and statistical data analysis, OS system design, as well as user- and kernel-mode development. Our work is data-driven with a sharp focus towards achieving excellence.  

Our Ideal Candidate is: 

• Self-Driven, experienced at solving complex problems. 
• Curious about Systems (OS, hardware/software interactions) and insight generation from big data. 
• Strong Communication and Collaboration Skills 

Responsibilities

• As an engineer on the team, you will characterize how software and hardware behave (both locally and at scale) through analysis of telemetry/trace data, identify issues/opportunities and work with the feature teams to evaluate/implement optimizations, across the software/hardware stack for Windows and Devices. Your work will range from improving customer satisfaction along the dimensions of performance, power and reliability delivering optimizations. The set of tools/technologies we use to achieve our objectives include C, C++, C#, scripting, kernel code, Cosmos/Kusto/Asimov and trace processing applications in Azure, python, machine learning models (linear regression and others), Power BI, statistics, Windows Performance Analyzer, ETW tracing, low-level silicon and OS tools and power instrumented hardware.
• You will play a direct role in enabling critical initiatives for Microsoft’s success in a variety of form factors and platforms. 

Qualifications

Required: 

• 7+ years of software development experience. 

Preferred: 

• Analysis capabilities towards optimizing systems. 
• Knowledge of power or performance areas. 
• Solid design, programming, and problem-solving skills. 
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (C, C++). 
• BS degree in CS or related engineering field. 
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize investments leveraging data. 
• Strong technical leadership and collaboration/communication skills. 

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Responsibilities

As the Product Marketing Manager, you will be a key member of the Africa Transformation Offcie Starts Up team with the below responsibilities.

• promote programmatic client investments and competitive commercial offerings
• engage in and manage co-marketing digital campaigns with Africa’s largest Start Ups and ISVs
• Land Microsoft Developer cloud marketing (VScode, GitHub, Azure)
• Orchestrate community marketing events online and onsite.
•  The Azure Product Marketing Manager (PMM) is responsible for leading the Azure Go-To-Market strategy for Azure solutions to deliver customer and partner success resulting in revenue growth and increased market shares within their aligned priorities.
• You must develop strong partnerships across marketing, Microsoft partners, and sales to lead and execute the priorities. The Azure PMM leads the field business for Azure and has overall responsibilities for enabling success by:
  • Lead the Azure business in alignment with other business owners;
  • Empower Customers to Migrate their infrastructure to the cloud and enable them to build skills and govern their cloud journey;
  • Build and land growth plans to win and maximize the local market opportunity, based on the business priorities;
  • Drive business outcomes by executing local Azure Go-To-Market plan to exceed business targets;
  • Provide input on local marketing plan development by providing business objectives to our Central Marketing Organization
  • Build a comprehensive event plan, including locally required events, for the fiscal year to harmonize with our Central Marketing Organization
• The PMM is required to have a strong understanding of their solution area and a good understanding of customer solutions and market ecosystem. This role represents the relevant Azure solutions, within the ATO organisation and subsidiary and is the subject matter expert as well as the market facing spokesperson. In addition, they must be able to articulate the local competitive landscape and develop local compete strategies and product differentiation by leveraging corporate and local research, partner insights and customer feedback.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years related experience
• Startup ecosystem experience
• Evangelist and subject matter expert for product
• Deep customer focus and understanding
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent communicator
• Independent thinker
• Self-starter
• Track record of strong influencing and stakeholder management skills

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.) required, MSC/MBA a plus, relevant fields of study include Marketing, Business, Computer Science and/or equivalent experience.