Production Director, CTO Office, Industry Solutions

The Industry Solutions CTO Office is looking for a Production Director to build reusable IP that will bolster confidence in Microsoft’s ability to deliver business value to industry customers!About the Organization – Microsoft’s Industry Solutions help industry customers accelerate their digital transformations. This work is crucial as every industry undergoes breakthrough transformation that is not simply about technology, but also about re-envisioning existing business models and embracing a different way of bringing together people, data, and processes.Industry Solutions (IS) is a global organization of over 13,000 strategic industry experts, elite engineers, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts who work together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology - to life for the world’s most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey.The Industry Solutions CTO Office strives to amplify customer and partner voices as we model, coach and scale technical leadership across Industry Solutions. The Solution Truth team unites the Industry Solutions organization around prioritized industry use cases and creates engineering- and delivery-validated assets for customer conversations to increase deal velocity and confidence in the promised business value. In doing so, we help Microsoft create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changinginnovations that impact billions around the world!About the role – Production DirectorYou will lead the team responsible for the production of industry solution kits. An industry solution kit is a set of reusable assets which showcase high priority industry-specific solutions. Solution kits are intended to accelerate customer understanding of business value through presentations, demos, functional code, and documentation that can be used as is, or customized.The use cases that you will build into solution kits are grounded in strong customer need and business value (customer truth), are achievable through Generally Available (GA) products using proven and reproducible configurations (product truth) and can be consistently and reliably delivered to customers (delivery truth). You will validate solution truth by building the use cases firsthand with design, engineering, Program Management, and industry experts, and ‘production pods,’ and you will work in close collaboration with engineering, marketing, and field sales teams.As the production leader for the industry solution kits, you will guide team and resource prioritization, governance and ROI, process and program hygiene, scrum planning and task management for kit production, and partner engagement programs.You are a strong cross-functional team leader who drives action and alignment by cultivating relationships across the organization, modeling growth mindset and continuous improvement, and developing high-performing teams. Critical skills include empathy during change management, systems to scale operational excellence across a team, ability to influence peers and executives, and high judgment when weighing trade-offs or deciding priorities.ResponsibilitiesWhat you will be doing:Develop scalable, deployable, reusable, and relevant field enablement technical assets to accelerate customer and partner industry cloud adoption including customer-ready demos, conceptual architectures, narratives, and delivery assets.

Converge teams on Industry Solutions priorities. Drive evangelism and adoption of highest priority industry use cases with field sellers and global system integrators.

Simplify complex inputs into program design. Define the program strategy, gather program requirements, identify resource needs, create the project plan and targets, and work across teams to align on the plan of record.

Build the rhythm of business (ROB) to ensure stakeholders are activated and to identify opportunities for program improvements. Establishes objectives and success criteria for the project in an inclusive collaborative manner with all stakeholders.

Ensures capacity of the team is aligned to project workload and complexity. Identify opportunities to streamline and optimize the program.

Leverage technical experience and product knowledge to unblock production teams building solution kit environments and architectures.

Use data to identify current and future program risks and create mitigation plans. Lead teams to perform experiments to test hypotheses and inform program decisions.

QualificationsWhat you will bring:Required/Minimum:Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years’ experience in program management, product development, product/technical program management, process management, process improvement, business operations, or similar function

OR equivalent experience.

4+ years senior-level people management experience.

3+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Preferred:Experienced in managing high-performing teams of Principal and Senior level roles.

Proven ability to contribute to a healthy team culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and collaboration.

Structured strategic systems thinking experience.

Location/Travel: You may be based anywhere in the United States, with a preference for Redmond, WA. You can expect limited global travel, 0 – 25%.Join us and be one who empowers billions! That’s incredible reach. When you combine that with your own inspiration, plus the freedom and support to make your ideas happen, you can make a huge impact on how people work and live all over the world.The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $171,200 and $256,800.At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including 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 your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.#indsol