This list contains only the countries for which job offers have been published in the selected language (e.g., in the French version, only job offers written in French are displayed, and in the English version, only those in English).
Join the Microsoft Azure Edge team and help businesses around the world transform with Azure Local and Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud. This position will lead our customer acceleration team for Azure Local and is accountable for building and managing a high impact team that drives customer pursuits, accelerates customer enablement, and scales the Azure Local ecosystem across strategic industries and partners. This role sits at the intersection of customers, partners, engineering, and field teams, ensuring Azure Local delivers measurable customer outcomes while informing product and ecosystem strategy through real world deployments. The role combines deep customer and industry engagement with people leadership, cross functional influence, and strategic execution.
Job Responsibility:
People Leadership: Build, coach, and lead a team of Customer Engagement Program Managers and Engineers focused on Azure Local customer success, adoption, and growth
Drive employee growth and development through coaching, feedback, and career planning
Execute team projects, set clear priorities, and manage performance in alignment with Microsoft leadership principles
Foster a culture of customer obsession, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning
Customer Pursuit & Strategy Leadership: Lead high impact Azure Local customer pursuits from early engagement through production deployment
Oversee customer strategy, potential solution evolutions, and the impact of Azure Local and broader Microsoft products across customer environments
Influence customer business strategy and/or Microsoft strategy to remove blockers and accelerate outcomes
Customer Enablement & Conditions of Success: Ensure customers are successfully enabled on Azure Local through structured onboarding, architecture guidance, and operational readiness
Establish and operationalize best practice methods for qualifying when customers have met defined conditions of success
Drive repeatable engagement models that accelerate time to value and reduce deployment friction
Capture customer insights and translate them into actionable feedback for product and engineering teams
Industry & Domain Expertise: Act as an industry and solution expert across Azure Local and adjacent Microsoft platforms
Help cross functional teams resolve customer requests or issues across focused product areas by aligning on strategy and recommended approaches
Provide clarity on customer scenarios, tradeoffs, and best practices to guide internal and external decision making
Ecosystem & Partner Scaling: Collaborate with ISVs, OEMs, SIs, and internal Microsoft teams to scale the Azure Local ecosystem
Identify gaps in tooling, documentation, partner readiness, and solution patterns
drive cross org solutions
Support go to market motions that expand Azure Local adoption in regulated, sovereign, and edge focused environments
Cross Functional & Executive Leadership: Champion cross functional collaboration with engineering and sales leadership to establish a cohesive stance and best practices during customer interactions
Accelerate deal closing and technology adoption through aligned messaging, execution, and escalation management
Serve as a connective tissue between customers, Azure Edge engineering, and the broader Azure organization
Influence roadmap priorities by representing customer and partner needs with clarity, data, and strategic context
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 12+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 15+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
5+ years people management experience
Experience with Azure Local, Azure Arc, hybrid cloud, or edge computing platforms
Background working with regulated, sovereign, or mission critical customer environments
Experience scaling partner ecosystems or defining repeatable customer engagement models