The Azure Local team builds the foundational platform that extends Azure into on‑premises and edge environments, delivering truly Azure‑consistent services wherever customers need to run. We enable customers to operate on their own infrastructure, by choice or necessity -- driven by latency, regulatory, data‑residency, or connectivity constraints. Powered by Azure Arc, Azure Local runs a broad spectrum of Azure workloads including Azure AI services (including Foundry Local), Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Kubernetes Service, and first‑class Virtual Machines, all managed through the Azure control plane.

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• As a senior member of the team, you will serve as a key evangelist for the platform, representing the product in customer engagements, partner/industry conferences, and analyst briefings. You will collaborate cross‑functionally with design, engineering, leadership, documentation, support, sales, and product marketing teams, as well as engage directly with customers and external partners, to shape strategy, influence outcomes, and deliver meaningful customer impact.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ownership of delivering end-end infrastructure services: defining product vision, technical roadmap, customer scenarios, great user experiences and success metrics end to end.
• Technical fluency in Azure (or other hyperscalers) / hybrid / edge architecture (VMs, control planes, networking, storage, security) with ability to partner credibly with senior engineering leaders.
• Experience operating in high ambiguity environments, balancing customer needs, architectural constraints, and long term platform strategy.
• Customer obsession: validating problems with enterprise customers, partners, and field; translating insights into differentiated platform capabilities.
• Data driven decision maker with strong judgment on tradeoffs, prioritization, and investment across reliability, scale, and adoption metrics.
• Executive level communication and influence, presenting product strategy, tradeoffs, and outcomes to senior leadership and representing the platform externally (customers, partners, analysts).
• Technical knowledge of enterprise servers, virtualization, containers, Windows/Linux and open-source ecosystems, storage, and related technology areas .
• Experience with hybrid infrastructure. spanning cloud, enterprise, and edge.
• Familiarity and hands on experience with AI solutions running in the cloud and the edge.

Product Management 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:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.