Principal Customer Engagement PM/Engineer

Job Description

Overview

Azure Edge + Platform brings together Edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver Edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. Driven by its customers’ needs, Azure Edge + Platform seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, Edge & Devices, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide. The Digital Operations Customer Acceleration Team works to increase customer adoption via direct customer engagements and improve customer value by reducing the distance of every engineering employee from our customers, increasing their understanding, empathy, and customer commitment.

As Customer Engagement Program Management professional in the Digital Operations team, you will lead strategic customer engagements to identify blockers and work with product teams on actionable product feedback. You will be the technical architect to accelerate deployments and scaling customer adoption Azure IoT products. This opportunity will allow you to develop deep business acumen, grow your technical skills in actual customer use cases, and lead programs.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities
Customer Acceleration & Satisfaction: Drive customer acceleration by identifying blockers, reassessing project scopes, validating conditions of success, and capturing feedback to inform future deployments.

- Customer-Centric Solutioning: Independently engage with customers to understand their needs, map Microsoft solutions to their use cases.
- Technical Leadership & Architecture: Act as a technical architect, driving complex end-to-end solutions, resolving issues, and collaborating across engineering, support, and sales to drive product adoption and customer success.
- Product & Service Enhancement: Support engineering with client context, prioritize development based on feasibility and impact, and ensure alignment between customer goals and internal roadmaps.
- Strategic Enablement & Evangelism: Develop and deliver training content, best practices, and internal learning sessions; contribute to presentations. And advise junior colleagues on synthesizing feedback for scalable impact.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Support engineering and sales teams with client context, prioritize development based on feasibility and impact, and ensure alignment between customer goals and internal roadmaps.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND extensive experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development or equivalent experience.
- Customer engagement with proven track records in relationship management and edge+cloud architecture work
- Experience in industrial sectors like manufacturing, energy or equivalent experience
- Experience with protocols, data modeling, Kubernetes, device management or adjacent technologies

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.