Director, Hardware Strategy and Planning

Work with memory and SoC technology providers, understand their portfolios, partner with engineering and business groups and drive a competitive and executable hardware roadmap strategy for Azure hardware infrastructure. Deep dive into memory vendors' technology offerings, quantitively compare technology options and produce recommendations and strategies that give a unique edge to Azure hardware infrastructure. Partner with business units and engineering team members to gather and define future requirements, server design objectives and business goals. Perform roadmap scenario modeling, financial modeling, and market analysis for the recommended HW platform factoring in performance, features, cost, and time-to-market tradeoffs. Explore and evaluate new technologies and how they can be leveraged to meet product requirements. Partner with engineering teams and drive strategy and plans to intercept new technologies into cloud scale fleet. Recommend internal and external process improvements and excellence conversations cross- functionally to ensure we have optimized processes and aligned across partner teams. Create, maintain and effectively disseminate project communication to stakeholders. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management Or Hardware Project Management OR equivalent experience. Minimum BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar field/experience. 10+ years industry experience in CPU, Memory or server technology development. Knowledge of memory subsystem architecture. Knowledge of memory technology, roadmap and industry trends. Knowledge of cloud server technology or system architecture. Proven customer obsession in prior roles where customer requirements were gathered and implemented into a product. Product Planning or Project Management experience is desired. Proven capabilities to drive positive business results by working across multiple organizations. Effective presentation skills with the ability to present to a wide range of cross functional partners across different teams and levels of the organization. Ability to build relationships and influence in a matrix organization. Highly effective written and oral communication skills. Self-motivated, driven individual who can work in a rapidly changing environment. Familiarity and previous experience developing programs through phase gate process is preferred.