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via LinkedIn posted_at: 18 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The group is responsible for designing, building, and operating Microsoft’s global datacenters; managing the programmatic delivery of our critical infrastructure design, equipment procurement, construction delivery, infrastructure innovation, demand planning and capacity utilization of our... unified infrastructure; and responsible for all Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The group is responsible for designing, building, and operating Microsoft’s global datacenters; managing the programmatic delivery of our critical infrastructure design, equipment procurement, construction delivery, infrastructure innovation, demand planning and capacity utilization of our... unified infrastructure; and responsible for all operations needed to run the physical infrastructure. We focus on smart growth with an emphasis on automation, data-driven engineering, cost‐effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's 200+ online businesses including Azure, Office 365, Bing, Xbox Live, Skype, and OneDrive. Our portfolio is built and managed by a team of subject matter experts working 24x7x365 to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager. This person should be intellectually curious, relentless, and looking for insights in data that can turn into actionable and measurable outcomes. Strong analytical skills, using data to design processes that scale, effective collaboration across internal and external users, and the drive to continuously improve and achieve business objectives will be critical to success in this role.

This role also requires excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills with an ability to adapt to changing conditions and priorities. You will be working with people from many different teams and backgrounds requiring an open mind-set. You must be able to identify and partner with other groups to achieve joint or complimentary goals. You will create, maintain, and track project level information and be responsible for operational reviews and driving internal alignment. You will drive clarity, data integrity, and decisions across network acquisition and planning teams, as well as help drive process and systems optimization for the network infrastructure planning and execution process. A proven track record of successfully managing projects and delivering on time providing measurable impact to be successful in this role.

Open to 100% remote in the U.S.

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Responsibilities
• Build, develop and maintain highly collaborative and effective working relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate proactive planning and flawless execution against our business objectives.
• Support strategy and planning across the organization including, but not limited to both semester and long-term aspects.
• Support and execute rhythm of the business activities; includes overall cadence, preparation of materials and presenters, and post-event surveys and feedback for all-hands, business reviews, offsites, etc.
• Support the development and governance of Supplier MBR reporting, compliance and escalations.
• Establish or enhance team processes, routines, and reporting to be well managed.
• Drive continuous improvement in business processes and tools to enable rapid growth and scale.
• Identify tools and processes and eliminate low value tasks, align multiple rhythms, consolidate required inputs into reduced deliverables with commonality.
• Lead and manage Cloud project initiatives for platform enablement and delivering capabilities that exceed customer expectations to enable rapid pace delivery.
• Drive tools and systems requirements for acquisition activities planning and tracking.
• Drive data quality across reporting and tooling.
• Manage, track, and drive alignment with partner teams on critical project deliverables.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement knowledge management tools and sites to ensure effective cultivating, maintaining and sharing of team knowledge.
• Own acceptance and criteria needed to build out and/or create Dashboards and Reports.
• Additional projects as needed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
• Working experience in Cloud (hyperscaler or customer) or equivalent Data Center and Network environment
• Proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel with advanced use of pivot tables and macros
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills working with disparate data sources to create a comprehensive view
• Strong familiarity with PowerBi or equivalent Business Intelligence reporting toolset

Preferred Qualifications
• Lean Six Sigma
• Experience with CRM tools / Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform Ability to influence others inside and outside of direct team
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to interact with diverse groups across all organizational levels
• Experience with developing and implementing organizational frameworks, standards, and processes
• Demonstrated experience, success, and/or contributions in delivering cross functional programs, including accountability, and driving results both as an individual and within a team
• Ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment
• Proactiveness and a strong positive outlook and approach to change management
• Be able to work under pressure and deadlines, with ability to manage complexity while driving clarity

These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. U.S.-based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 10 scheduled paid holidays, and up to 80 hours Holistic Health Time Off. Additionally, hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid vacation time, and salaried/exempt employees have Discretionary Time Off (DTO).

Our Commitment to Pay Equity

We are committed to the principle of pay equity – paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )

Understanding Roles at Microsoft

The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply – Technical Program Management IC4. The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts – the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role – a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form.

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via Microsoft Careers posted_at: 29 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Team Xbox is at the forefront of delivering the industry’s best platform and experiences as we bring access to Xbox for every player in the world. We are looking for an experienced Director of Relationship Marketing & Loyalty to lead several critical efforts across the organization. The ideal candidate has a strong record of digital marketing, personalized customer-journey creation, marketing... operations / technical knowledge, stellar collaboration Team Xbox is at the forefront of delivering the industry’s best platform and experiences as we bring access to Xbox for every player in the world. We are looking for an experienced Director of Relationship Marketing & Loyalty to lead several critical efforts across the organization. The ideal candidate has a strong record of digital marketing, personalized customer-journey creation, marketing... operations / technical knowledge, stellar collaboration skills, and a relentless drive to engage and delight our growing community of players and game creators around the world. If you are passionate about being at the forefront of the gaming industry, this is the role for you.

In this role, you will focus on creating and executing break-through customer marketing to drive usage, loyalty and retention of gamers across the global. You will be focused on developing personalized journeys, transforming loyalty marketing, expanding our channels, and building multi-channel communications to engage gamers. Additionally, this role is essential in driving continued engagement with our highly-valued Game Pass subscribers – from Day 1 Onboarding of sign-up and beyond.

As Director of Relationship Marketing & Loyalty, you will lead the day-to-day management a talented team, the strategy for customer marketing, and ensure flawless execution across all elements. You will work directly with other marketing teams, engineering, as well as leadership from various cross functional orgs, as you drive the marketing strategy from a global go-to-market perspective. You will collaborate closely with the industry’s best minds within the Gaming division, broader MSFT and other organizations) to manage multiple integration initiatives from identification to execution.
• Own customer journeys and lifecycle marketing that engages millions of customers dynamically across channels and gaming endpoints
• Transform rewards and loyalty marketing framework and messaging to drive enrollment, usage and redemption of rewards ultimately increasing game play and Xbox retention
• Leveraging a deep understanding of our customer base to create effective segmentation, personalized journeys, and new engagement programs.
• Define and direct impactful campaigns across multiple channels, customer segments, and marketing platforms/capabilities to drive fan engagement.
• Help shape the marketing technology and operations evolution to create innovative personalized journeys.
• Create impactful, scalable, personalized journeys for Game Pass and new to Xbox customers – to drive usage and retention from Day 1.
• Partner with engineering and product marketers across Xbox and Microsoft to evolve in-product messaging across in console and in app touchpoints to deliver customer-first experiences and fuel retention.
• Drive new hardware product launch campaigns globally
• Define and drive success criteria and lead cross-functional alignment to achieve the defined goals
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via Jooble posted_at: 16 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You'll be empowered to build community, explore your passion, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity... to learn and grow, but to experience our culture At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You'll be empowered to build community, explore your passion, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity... to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection , executive engagement, and memorable events.
Imagine yourself as a Microsoft intern. Join Microsoft today and help us innovate and shape the business of tomorrow.
We're a company of learn-it- alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you? Learn more about our cultural attributes.
Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love-start your journey with us today! Responsibilities Microsoft's high-profile videogame business. As Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the center, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want. We work with gaming publishers, developers, platform, and technology partners from around the world to bring Xbox and Windows games and services (e.g., Game Pass, xCloud) to Microsoft's customers, and platform offerings (e.g., Azure, Playfab, Xbox Live) to its creators and partners.
Customer and Partner Focus
• Maintains and develops internal and external relationships with business and technical peers for assigned gaming accounts.
• Develops understanding of gaming customers and partners business and strategy and relevant industry trends through research (reading industry research reports, attending internal/external conferences, subject matter expert/mentor feedback, leveraging internal resources, talking with partner directly, gathering third party resources). Identifies consumer trends and key partners that address consumer needs. Develops understanding of Microsoft point of view/landscape. Applies understanding in execution of deal/plan.
Partnership Strategy
• Supports senior gaming colleagues in articulating partnership opportunities for Microsoft to drive business value propositions.
• Consolidates gaming information obtained through research in technology, industry, and competitive trends to understand how Microsoft is positioned in a given market for their team.
• Works with gaming stakeholders to support development of target customer/partner list to close high-priority gaps across technology, product, business, and/or geography.
• Utilizes process to support development and maintenance of pipeline; prepares information for reporting to key stakeholders. Escalates to manager as needed.
• Defines gaming partnership strategies to secure opportunities to fill gaps in our current consumer journey.
Qualifications
• Currently pursuing or have completed a bachelor's or master's degree in related field with at least one semester/quarter remaining after internship.
• Excellent communication skills and strong writing and presentation skills.
Strong desire and business acumen for consultative solution selling.
• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for technology, both consumer and enterprise.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about all forms of interactive entertainment including the console and PC gaming spaces .
• Some understanding of cloud computing, Microsoft Office 365, or devices preferred.
The base pay range for this internship is USD $4,320 - $8,670 per month. 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 $5,760 - $9,510 per month.
Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based PhD, University, and Explore interns have access to medical and vision insurance, paid sick time (salaried interns accrue at 3.34 hours per pay period worked; hourly interns accrue at .03846 hour per hour worked), paid federal holidays, and software discounts. Puget Sound-based PhD, University, and Explore interns gain access to a bus pass and a fitness club membership. Discovery interns are not eligible for healthcare benefits or a fitness club membership, but they have access to paid sick time (accrued at .03846 hour per hour worked), paid federal holidays, software discounts, and a bus pass.
Our Commitment to Pay Equity
We are committed to the principle of pay equity - paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( )
Understanding Roles at Microsoft
The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply - Business Development IC2. The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts - the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role - a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work
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via Adzuna posted_at: 9 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Turn 10 Studios, creators of Forza Motorsport, is looking for Senior UI Engineering Lead to help define what world class UI development can be. Turn 10 is a division of Xbox Game Studios and was established in 2001 as a first-party game developer. With an emphasis on simulation and showcasing both Xbox Live and Xbox Hardware, our team always strives to be on the leading edge of technology... innovation. As a Senior UI Engineering Lead, you will help Turn 10 Studios, creators of Forza Motorsport, is looking for Senior UI Engineering Lead to help define what world class UI development can be. Turn 10 is a division of Xbox Game Studios and was established in 2001 as a first-party game developer. With an emphasis on simulation and showcasing both Xbox Live and Xbox Hardware, our team always strives to be on the leading edge of technology... innovation.

As a Senior UI Engineering Lead, you will help design and develop an industry leading UI process and toolset. This opportunity will allow you to learn from a broad group of talented UI engineers from all around Xbox Studios, and in particular you'll get to work closely with our partners at Playground Games. You will be expected to work with a cross discipline team of artists, UX designers, game designers, audio designers, and producers to understand their needs and to develop a road map to achieve it. This role will allow for remote work up to 50% of the week.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we're dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Required Qualifications
• Lead the technical design and implementation of a shipped feature.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 3+ years of UI engineering on console games (Xbox, PlayStation, or Switch)
• 6+ years professional C++ development experience on medium to large teams (40+ people)
• 1+ shipped console/multiplatform title.
• Experience with each phase of development and understanding of the priorities at each phase.
• Experience with UI performance debugging.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate's primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. U.S.-based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 10 scheduled paid holidays, and up to 80 hours Holistic Health Time Off. Additionally, hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid vacation time, and salaried/exempt employees have Discretionary Time Off (DTO).

Our Commitment to Pay Equity

We are committed to the principle of pay equity - paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )

Understanding Roles at Microsoft

The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply - Software Engineering IC4. The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts - the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role - a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form. #gamingjobs

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
• You will own portions of our UI development process & tools and will work with your customers to make them efficient, reliable, and maintainable.
• You will create technical design documents and work breakdowns for your areas of ownership and lead a small group of engineers to accomplish your design.
• You will implement features in the shipping game to prove out our development pipeline.
• You will collaborate with UI teams from other studios, keeping on top of current trends and strive to push our technology forward.
• As part of the UI team, you will work across discipline boundaries and collaborate with several design and art groups to develop experiences that will delight our players.
• As part of Microsoft, you will develop a learn-it-all mindset. We don't always have the answers, but we are always curious and passionate to learn
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Microsoft Corporation has an immediate opening for a Law Enforcement Response Specialist to join its Law Enforcement and National Security (LENS) team. The successful candidate will be highly-organized, motivated, and comfortable with working both independently and as part of a global team. Once training has been fully completed, a new response specialist may work remotely up to 50% of the time... in our hybrid environment. Organization LENS is Microsoft Corporation has an immediate opening for a Law Enforcement Response Specialist to join its Law Enforcement and National Security (LENS) team. The successful candidate will be highly-organized, motivated, and comfortable with working both independently and as part of a global team. Once training has been fully completed, a new response specialist may work remotely up to 50% of the time... in our hybrid environment.

Organization

LENS is an integral part of the Customer Security and Trust (CST) organization within Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA). The CST organization is comprised of multiple teams responsible for Microsoft’s public policy and compliance practices relating to cybersecurity, cybercrime, critical infrastructure protection, security engineering, online safety, and lawful access. As part of CST, the LENS team is responsible for balancing public safety and global trust in Microsoft through principled advocacy, and compliance with government demands that respect the rule of law and protect our customers’ privacy. LENS provides this support for Microsoft’s online services such as Hotmail & Outlook.com, OneDrive, Xbox Live, Skype, etc.

Within the global LENS team, response specialists review and respond to criminal and civil legal demands in compliance with Microsoft’s lawful access policies, customer commitments, and applicable laws. Specialists are responsible for ensuring that these requests are processed both expeditiously and accurately. This requires a keen eye for detail, superior judgement, and effective multi-tasking abilities.

In addition to responding to legal demands, Specialists also assist other teams at Microsoft in support of the company’s commitments to customer security and digital safety. These teams are engaged in the detection and prevention of child exploitation, cybercrime, business email compromise, and other enforcement efforts to protect our customers’ security and privacy. The role also involves regular engagement with law enforcement agencies, providing training on Microsoft’s policies and process.

Responsibilities
• Providing timely and accurate responses to legal demands from global law enforcement authorities consistent with Microsoft’s lawful access policies, customer commitments, and applicable laws.
• Management of sensitive legal escalations as part of a team of attorneys, product specialists and engineers.
• Participation in the LENS emergency response team on-call rotation, which provides 24/7 support for emergency law enforcement escalations.
• Engaging with government authorities and other CELA contacts to respond to process and policy questions, and to resolve legal document ambiguities.
• Improving operational efficiencies by contributing to policies and procedures, and by providing feedback to engineering teams responsible for LENS-specific tools.
• Demonstrates an understanding of mapping or how systems work and impact one another.
• Collaborates with others who work with other teams (e.g., engineering, product groups) to ensure program processes are rigorous and executed efficiently. Helps develop processes around scope and scheduled changes for programs, and communicates them to stakeholders.
• Collaborates with others to understand overall business goals, objectives, and strategies, as well as short- and long-term business priorities. Understands and identifies current program risks, impact, and mitigation plans in collaboration with others.
• Embody our culture and a demonstrated commitment to the company’s core values, including a commitment to high ethical standards, unquestioned integrity, and a commitment to advancing the company’s diversity & inclusion commitments.

Qualifications

Minimum/Required Qualifications
• Bachelors Degree in business or operations AND 2+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience handling law enforcement, privacy, security, incident response, and/or other investigatory requests in the government, telecommunications, or the technology industry as an investigator, responder, and/or paralegal
• 1+ years using advanced analytical, research and writing capabilities
• US Citizenship

Desired Qualifications
• Strong, practical use of Microsoft Office products and competent at finding solutions to routine technical issues
• Detail-oriented, well-organized, proactive solution based problem solver
• Flexibility with multi-tasking functions in a dynamic environment and the ability to prioritize concurrent high-profile issues
• Capable of accommodating fluctuations in work demands
• Ability to understand a variety of technologies, business interests, and political and regulatory goals
• Ability to work independently, pragmatically, proactively, and efficiently on a wide variety of tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to maintain availability for scheduled 24/7 emergency response program rotation
• Prior experience handling law enforcement, privacy, security, incident response, or other investigatory requests either in the government, telecommunications, or the technology industry as an investigator, responder, or paralegal
• Prior experience with privacy laws, data retention laws, and/or surveillance laws
• CIPP privacy compliance certification, or the ability to obtain and maintain certification
• Written and/or verbal proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Spanish and/or Portuguese
• Familiarity with the technology industry and the impact of social media highly desirable
• Opportunity to work non-standard hours. As a global team, LENS has a large window of core hours

If hired for this position, the team you would be joining is part of our Cloud organization and/or works with government contracts and as such has a unique background check requirement, detailed below. Please note you will be provided with steps for completing the check if you accept a role on the team.

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:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

#CELA

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form.

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via Microsoft Careers posted_at: 21 hours agoschedule_type: Full-time
#GEOJobs The Gaming Ecosystem Organization (GEO) is looking for a Contract Administrator to join our Business Development team. We provide tactical and strategic business development support to Xbox Game Studios and the broader organization to empower development and publishing of exclusive video game content for Microsoft Gaming hardware and services. #GEOJobs

The Gaming Ecosystem Organization (GEO) is looking for a Contract Administrator to join our Business Development team. We provide tactical and strategic business development support to Xbox Game Studios and the broader organization to empower development and publishing of exclusive video game content for Microsoft Gaming hardware and services.
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via Microsoft Careers posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
It is a mobile first, cloud first world and we’re empowering it.  Microsoft Azure is at the heart of the Microsoft Cloud providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing.  Our team within Azure provides the software platform which enables internal Microsoft services (including Office 365, Bing.com, XBOX Live, Skype, and OneDrive) as well as many external customers to run their large-scale mission-critical It is a mobile first, cloud first world and we’re empowering it.  Microsoft Azure is at the heart of the Microsoft Cloud providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing.  Our team within Azure provides the software platform which enables internal Microsoft services (including Office 365, Bing.com, XBOX Live, Skype, and OneDrive) as well as many external customers to run their large-scale mission-critical Cloud applications for their businesses. 

We are looking for world-class software developers to help us continue to evolve, expand, and define our software platform and infrastructure.  Some of the many areas we are tackling include ring 0 and (-1) core infrastructure services, five 9s (99.999%) reliability, fault-tolerance, distributed service monitoring, operational efficiency within the datacenter hardware lifecycle, performance metrics collection/analysis, alerting, visualization, device operations, and coordination of node diagnostics and... repairs.

This is a fun and fast-paced environment and a great opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft and extremely relevant in the industry.  There are very few opportunities in Computer Science which have the potential impact to work at the massive scale like we do.  If you’re like us and passionate about building robust highly distributed software systems defining the backbone to the Microsoft Cloud, let’s talk
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About the job Join us in the Gaming Ecosystem Organization (GEO) and be part of our mission to empower game creators to realize their dreams by delivering the world’s best tools and services from Xbox to Azure. We are looking for people who are energized by innovating the tools that support every stage in a game’s life cycle. As game creators evolve to deliver their titles as Games-as-a-Service, we are supercharging our developer tools to support About the job Join us in the Gaming Ecosystem Organization (GEO) and be part of our mission to empower game creators to realize their dreams by delivering the world’s best tools and services from Xbox to Azure. We are looking for people who are energized by innovating the tools that support every stage in a game’s life cycle. As game creators evolve to deliver their titles as Games-as-a-Service, we are supercharging our developer tools to support accelerated production environments, agile back-end infrastructure, and live ops services. #Xbox #MicrosoftGaming #DeveloperTools #GEOjobs #gamingjobs The focus of this role is to define and deliver high-quality and innovative data platforms using cutting edge technologies in a dynamic and agile environment with an eye towards anticipating the future technical needs of our key gaming customers. You will work with internal engineers and subject matter experts to understand the end-to-end scenarios typically faced by our customers and play a... central role in delivering integrated experiences for game developers within Xbox Live, PlayFab, and Azure. Successful candidates should have demonstrable experience in working with game teams to provide end-to-end analytics support—from specifying design and business telemetry, validating data quality, to delivering analyses that positively impact players. Responsibilities Guide the engineering and development of a suite of data streaming services that scales globally and serves thousands of customers and millions of players. Work with leaders across Azure and Gaming to define the vision and requirements for our services and regularly communicate that vision and progress to all levels of the organization. Provide data leadership and knowledge to program managers and engineers working on the current solution. Closely work with internal and external Gaming partners to ensure the effective translation of business and technical requirements. Build and Manage Partnerships with other analytics and insights efforts in Azure and within the Gaming Industry. Required Qualifications Great written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to communicate technical content to general audiences 5+ years of program management experience with both technical and business leadership on high-impact programs. 5+ years of Data Science experience working with large data sets, using big data tools and scripting languages such as: Excel, SQL, Python, Splunk, and PowerBI. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, statistics, economics or related field Desired Prior experience designing and developing services (using AWS or Azure) at scale Experience with driving experiments, anomaly detection, predictive analysis, and exploratory data analysis Experience using advanced analytics techniques such as predictive modelling and neural network modelling. #gamingjobs 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form Show more details...
via Tarta.ai posted_at: 18 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You ll be empowered to build community, explore your passion, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity... to learn and grow, but to experience our culture At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You ll be empowered to build community, explore your passion, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity... to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.

Imagine yourself as a Microsoft intern. Join Microsoft today and help us innovate and shape the business of tomorrow.

We re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you? Learn more about our cultural attributes.

Are you ready to join us and create the future? Come as you are, do what you love start your journey with us today!

Responsibilities

Microsoft s high-profile videogame business. As Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the center, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want. We work with gaming publishers, developers, platform, and technology partners from around the world to bring Xbox and Windows games and services (e.g., Game Pass, xCloud) to Microsoft s customers, and platform offerings (e.g., Azure, Playfab, Xbox Live) to its creators and partners.

Customer and Partner Focus
• Maintains and develops internal and external relationships with business and technical peers for assigned gaming accounts.
• Develops understanding of gaming customers and partners business and strategy and relevant industry trends through research (reading industry research reports, attending internal/external conferences, subject matter expert/mentor feedback, leveraging internal resources, talking with partner directly, gathering third party resources). Identifies consumer trends and key partners that address consumer needs. Develops understanding of Microsoft point of view/landscape. Applies understanding in execution of deal/plan.

Partnership Strategy
• Supports senior gaming colleagues in articulating partnership opportunities for Microsoft to drive business value propositions.
• Consolidates gaming information obtained through research in technology, industry, and competitive trends to understand how Microsoft is positioned in a given market for their team.
• Works with gaming stakeholders to support development of target customer/partner list to close high-priority gaps across technology, product, business, and/or geography.
• Utilizes process to support development and maintenance of pipeline; prepares information for reporting to key stakeholders. Escalates to manager as needed.
• Defines gaming partnership strategies to secure opportunities to fill gaps in our current consumer journey.

Qualifications
• Currently pursuing or have completed a bachelor s or master s degree in related field with at least one semester/quarter remaining after internship.
• Excellent communication skills and strong writing and presentation skills.

Strong desire and business acumen for consultative solution selling.
• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Passion for technology, both consumer and enterprise.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about all forms of interactive entertainment including the console and PC gaming spaces.
• Some understanding of cloud computing, Microsoft Office 365, or devices preferred.

The base pay range for this internship is USD $4,320 - $8,670 per month. 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 $5,760 - $9,510 per month.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based PhD, University, and Explore interns have access to medical and vision insurance, paid sick time (salaried interns accrue at 3.34 hours per pay period worked; hourly interns accrue at .03846 hour per hour worked), paid federal holidays, and software discounts. Puget Sound-based PhD, University, and Explore interns gain access to a bus pass and a fitness club membership. Discovery interns are not eligible for healthcare benefits or a fitness club membership, but they have access to paid sick time (accrued at .03846 hour per hour worked), paid federal holidays, software discounts, and a bus pass.

Our Commitment to Pay Equity

We are committed to the principle of pay equity paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )

Understanding Roles at Microsoft

The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply Business Development IC2. The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work
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via Tarta.ai posted_at: 24 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
It is a mobile first, cloud first world and we're empowering it.  Microsoft Azure is at the heart of the Microsoft Cloud providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing.  Our team within Azure provides the software platform which enables internal Microsoft services (including Office 365, Bing.com, XBOX Live, Skype, and OneDrive) as well as many external... customers to run their large-scale mission-critical It is a mobile first, cloud first world and we're empowering it.  Microsoft Azure is at the heart of the Microsoft Cloud providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing.  Our team within Azure provides the software platform which enables internal Microsoft services (including Office 365, Bing.com, XBOX Live, Skype, and OneDrive) as well as many external... customers to run their large-scale mission-critical Cloud applications for their businesses.

We are looking for world-class software developers to help us continue to evolve, expand, and define our software platform and infrastructure.  Some of the many areas we are tackling include ring 0 and (-1) core infrastructure services, five 9s (99.999%) reliability, fault-tolerance, distributed service monitoring, operational efficiency within the datacenter hardware lifecycle, performance metrics collection/analysis, alerting, visualization, device operations, and coordination of node diagnostics and repairs.

This is a fun and fast-paced environment and a great opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft and extremely relevant in the industry.  There are very few opportunities in Computer Science which have the potential impact to work at the massive scale like we do.  If you're like us and passionate about building robust highly distributed software systems defining the backbone to the Microsoft Cloud, let's talk.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Ability to design and write great fault-tolerant, resilient code
• Fluent in C#, C/C++, or Java, programming languages
• Previous experience in delivering cross-platform software
• Previous experience in one or more of the following areas: large scale Internet applications, operating systems, distributed systems, client/server and multi-tier architecture, and asynchronous and multi-threaded programming

Background Check 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:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate's primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. U.S.-based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 10 scheduled paid holidays, and up to 80 hours Holistic Health Time Off. Additionally, hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid vacation time, and salaried/exempt employees have Discretionary Time Off (DTO).

Our Commitment to Pay Equity

We are committed to the principle of pay equity - paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )

Understanding Roles at Microsoft

The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply - Software Engineering IC4.

The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts - the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role - a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
• Design and code solutions that improve the management of remote systems.
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• Provide new features for Microsoft Cloud internal infrastructure software.
• Keep infrastructure services running and deliver code updates on a regular cadence to improve performance and reliability.
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations. Considers partner teams across own organization and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development
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