The Microsoft Garage is a program that puts Microsoft's cultural priorities into action for our employees, our interns, and our customers. We develop and curate programs and offerings that enable our stakeholders to practice the cultural priorities of growth mindset, customer obsession, diverse and inclusive, One Microsoft, and making a difference. We do this through large scale events like the Microsoft Global Hackathon, the world’s largest corporate hackathon, and through our programs and facilities at Microsoft development centers around the world. Supporting curiosity, experimentation, and lifelong learning is a cornerstone of our programs. We have 15 Garage facilities around the world where we offer a variety of programming that helps our employees learn, collaborate, and work hands-on with the world’s most interesting technologies. We also offer digital and on-demand experiences to Microsoft employees, customers, and partners around the world. The Microsoft Garage works with our employees to hack for growth. We love to experiment, work on small scale projects, and bring people together to solve problems for our customers.
We are hiring a Director for the Microsoft Garage in Reston, VA. The candidate will have a proven track record building, producing, and delivering impactful events, employee engagements, and experiments. This person will have a passion for learning and technology and will have experience running and participating in hackathons. We would like a candidate who has relationships with our partners and competitive companies.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
- Run the day-to-day, week-to-week operation of the Microsoft Garage including developing, curating, and delivering engagement and experiences to our employees, customers, and ecosystem partners.
- Lead the planning and execution of our Microsoft Global Hackathon and our other hackathons throughout the year.
- Develop, curate, and deliver engagements and experiences tailored to the needs and interests of our employees and leadership.
- Collaborate with worldwide Garage colleagues to produce and curate content and experiences to offer at your local site as well as to be shared across multiple global Garage sites.
- Forge partnerships and relationships with key ecosystem players such as local tech and civic leaders and the innovation community.
- Develop and deliver digital programming through scheduling and sourcing talks with internal and external speakers/guests and creating and documenting workshop or employee experiences.
- Support development and delivery of engagements or events for a variety of audiences that could include employees, teams, or external partners.
- Embody our culture and values.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- It is critical that our candidate understands and models growth-mindset behavior. Our candidate will have a passion for technology, progress, and learning.
- In The Garage, we strive for intellectual curiosity that propels us and motivates us to understand the contemporary technologies and scientific advancements that are shaping our industry.
- Our candidate should have a passion for community building and exploring new technologies and enabling others within our communities to explore, experience, and make things in a hands-on manner.
- Our candidate will be an effective collaborator, specifically with a high level of willingness to build on the work of others and to enable others to build on their work.
- Our candidate will have the maturity to recognize that the value of collaboration and leveraging the work of others is equal to the value of inventing something new.
- Our candidate would be comfortable at the front of the room on some occasions, with a magnanimous enough personality to command the attention of influential people inside and outside of Microsoft. But at the same time, our candidate would be comfortable in the back of the room allowing others to build a platform for community, experimentation, and evangelism.
- This individual will need to have a sense for business development and partnerships. Whether it is a partnership with an internal Microsoft engineering team, multiple engineering teams, or external entities from the local ecosystem — our candidate will need to deliver on our principal of building the ‘coalition of the willing’ on projects and programs.
- Proven experience working with and building community in a technical context.
- Experience working as a developer evangelist.
- A passion for and experience with making and the maker movement.
Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 13, 2024.
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