<div>As part of the Windows and Windows Cloud product group, the Windows Cloud Customer Acceleration Team engages with Windows in the Cloud’s most strategic customers via a data-driven customer/engineering feedback loop as part of their adoption of the service. We are looking for customer-obsessed individuals to drive positive product change through influencing product priorities, using customer listening and technical knowledge. </div><div> </div>Come join a team focused on learning from deep technical engagement with customers to improve Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) to accelerate adoption of Windows in the cloud.  As a Senior Customer Experience Program Manager - Top Secret you will engage with our most strategic customers across the Americas region to help clear adoption or sales blockers and gather engineering insights to assist in the development of the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop offerings. This opportunity will allow you to develop your skills as a Customer Experience Program Manager, understand nuances of varied Industries across the region, and apply this knowledge to help drive engineering innovations. This is a flexible working opportunity allowing for up to 100% work from home and requires approximately 25% travel throughout the region. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.Required Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.</li></ul>Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:<ul><li>The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top 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.</li><li>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.  </li><li>Citizenship &amp; Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance</li><li>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development <ul><li>OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development </li><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li></ul>Customer Experience Program Mgmt IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html" target="_blank">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 25, 2025.  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest" target="_blank">Accommodation request form</a>. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.<ul><li>Product &amp; Service Insights: Working with the rest of the Windows Cloud Experiences engineering team, use your knowledge from enterprise customers and technical expertise to help guide the future direction of our product. Directly influencing product roadmap to build better products. </li><li>Ecosystem Enablement: Use your knowledge from enterprise customers and broad technical subject matter expertise to train and enable our scalable deployment ecosystem. Driving investments within the ecosystem to build better products for our scale motion. Collaborate with key internal and external partners to identify their business and technical requirements to drive alignment and continuous improvements. </li><li>Ability to forge strong relationships with customers (Business Decision Makers, CSOs and IT Leaders), speaking on behalf of Engineering, helping them understand our value proposition and our services; direct experience working with customers is highly desired.</li><li>Work closely with other product managers, software engineers, and product marketing teams throughout the product development lifecycle to deliver best-in-class customer experiences.</li><li>Experience in identifying product gaps and advocating on behalf of customers to make our products even stronger with proven track record driving the prioritization of product improvements based on actual customer requirements.</li><li>Demonstrated broad technical awareness &amp; product knowledge across: <ul><li>Microsoft 365 endpoint/desktop management (Expertise in the any of the following is advantageous: Windows 365, Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Configuration Manager, Azure Active Directory)</li><li>Microsoft desktop virtualization (Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote Desktop Services)</li><li>Microsoft Azure technologies, specifically networking and compute A willingness to travel to and work on-site at customer locations (as the position does require approximately 25% travel).</li></ul></li></ul>