Description :
Job Title: Program Manager
Job Category: Program Management
Product: (Not Product Specific)
Date Posted: 08/15/2008
Job Code: 240150
Location: WA - Redmond
Travel Required:
Entertainment of your choice, when you want it, where you want it, how you want it. Microsoft and its partners are working hard to turn this vision into reality. Today users can record TV on their PC, play movies on their XBox, share music with friends on the spot using a Zune, transfer their music and videos to their mobile phone or car and enjoy it on the go, but this is just the beginning.
The Team
Based on the broad adoption and worldwide success of our award-winning Windows Media DRM technology we are currently developing Microsoft's next generation platform, PlayReady?, to provide unparalleled flexibility in how users consume their premium entertainment content anytime, anywhere, and on any device.
We are chartered with building a business that provides both a strategic platform to Microsoft's entertainment initiatives and deliver a positive contribution margin to Microsoft through licensing deals with external partners.
We believe in fast paced development cycles, building runtimes for the PC and Mac, software development kits for devices and servers, as well as online services, all under the same roof.
The Release Management team is helping to shape this belief and drive the releases to this fast pace with high quality. Therefore, we are looking for a passionate, energetic, organized, self motivated release manager to drive our releases through planning, development, test, and signoff and release steps to get our products ready and available to our customers and partners.
Responsibilities Include:
Define release criteria and release plan documentation
Drive status and product health communication across the entire organization
Work closely with multiple platform component teams to help unify schedules and priorities
Own the Early Adopter Program
Ensure successful and timely completion of all Microsoft signoff requirements
Analyze and track resource allocation and make recommendations to management on necessary adjustments
Own sign-off processes
Own bug bars
Drive structure and processes for ship rooms
Help plan the next 1 to 3 years of product releases
Qualifications Include:
5+ years of release / project management experience
Two (or more) full software ship cycles
Familiarity with multiple project management methodologies including SCRUM, MSF and the standard PMI model
Experience working across multiple disciplines and teams
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Excellent cross team collaboration skills
Ability to drive work items and issues to closure
Project Management Institute Certification is a plus
