Principal Partner Enablement Program Manager

Responsibilities

You’ll lead practices and rhythm of business for efficient and productive co-engineering engagement with silicon partners, to identify joint investment areas from inception to market and to drive collaboration with engineering ensuring recommendations & plans that address these areas are successfully pushed through to the development lifecycle.

You will ensure deep understanding of silicon partner products and roadmaps as you assess cross-dependencies between silicon productization, operating system (OS) planning/development/release, & applications and drive both internal & external consensus to resolving these.

You’ll coordinate with silicon partners when they come across issues and areas for improvement in their products/services (both in-development and in-market) and analyze blockers and their impact, assembling potential resolutions.

You will create requirements for and oversee implementation/maintenance of tools and infrastructure supporting co-engineering engagement and efficiency between Windows and silicon partners.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in relevant technical domain (e.g., hardware, systems engineering), technical sales, marketing, product management, customer support, or cross-group/cross-functional engineering.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years experience in hardware/software product/service/project/program management or cross-group/cross-functional engineering.
• Understanding of both software and hardware lifecycles and interplay between software and hardware development and schedules.
• Proficiency with issue tracking and project management tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to articulate business problems, alternatives, and product strategy.
• Experience influencing without authority and driving cross-functional alignment.