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Own AI adoption, culture, organizational health, and complex business programs for Microsoft’s sales acceleration organization. The role leads operating-model transformation, removes adoption barriers, coordinates culture initiatives and leadership communities, tracks program and organizational impact, and manages portfolios with timelines, milestones, budgets, risks, resources, and success metrics. It requires cross-functional influence, executive communication, change management, and measurable delivery across matrixed teams.

Develop and improve Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities across Linux and Windows, building reliable container orchestration and cloud infrastructure at global scale. Responsibilities include advancing Kubernetes components, improving service quality, accelerating engineering velocity, automating incident prevention and remediation, and integrating AI tools into development workflows. The role focuses on distributed systems, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps tooling, and AI/ML workload infrastructure.

Design, develop, and deploy software for Azure SmartNIC platforms and networking offloads. Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and telemetry for cloud networking services supporting compute and storage. Collaborate across hardware, firmware, silicon, platform, and service teams while troubleshooting production incidents and delivering high-availability solutions. Responsibilities include software design, coding, testing, performance analysis, monitoring, diagnostics, and production deployment for hyperscale distributed systems.

Leads strategic cloud capacity acceleration initiatives across engineering, networking, architecture, supply chain, operations, finance, and regional delivery. Builds governance, operating models, decision frameworks, and execution rhythms that improve delivery speed and predictability. Drives alignment, resolves systemic bottlenecks, develops executive narratives, and influences outcomes without direct authority. The role also develops leaders and scalable organizational capabilities across Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure ecosystem.

Leads sales strategy enablement for Microsoft’s retail and consumer goods segment. Develops AI transformation narratives, identifies repeatable customer and commercial patterns, and converts successful engagements into scalable sales motions, playbooks, discovery methods, value frameworks, and partner pathways. Supports strategic opportunities, pipeline acceleration, executive engagements, and deal closure while coordinating across sales, engineering, marketing, customer success, advisory, and partner teams.

Lead commercial strategy and execution for complex Defense Industrial Base accounts. Own large, multi-year negotiations; assess financial, contractual, and compliance risks; shape deal structures; influence Sales, Finance, Legal, Deal Desk, and Policy teams; maintain forecast accuracy and audit-ready agreements; and serve as a senior commercial expert and mentor without formal people-management responsibilities.

Lead technical vision and architecture for AI frameworks, performance, benchmarking, and tooling. Drive cross-team alignment, mentor engineers, ship high-performance distributed software, and improve model onboarding, runtime performance, reliability, and Azure hardware efficiency.

Perform advanced threat hunting and deep analysis of attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments, notify customers of imminent threats, build proof-of-concept hunting tools and automations, synthesize findings into mitigation recommendations, and drive product/tool improvements by transferring threat intelligence and investigation best practices to engineering and customer teams.

Develop production-ready AI applications, agents, integrations, and workflows using Microsoft Cloud and AI platforms. Guide partners on architecture, software engineering, security, governance, privacy, Responsible AI, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness. Co-engineer solutions with external teams, build reusable accelerators, and help scale agentic and LLM-powered applications from concept through production while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Leads internal and external communications for Frontier Company executives, developing messaging, narratives, social media strategies, executive thought leadership, and communications plans. Advises senior stakeholders, manages speaking and media requests, translates complex technology topics for varied audiences, and drives communications programs aligned with business priorities in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.