Director, Project Management

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Hyderabad, TS, IN +2 · Consulting Project Management

This role is a Director of Project Management within Microsoft's Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) organization, focusing on leading large transformational deals for strategic customers. The role involves customer-facing executive leadership, orchestrating cross-functional teams, driving project delivery strategy, managing financial performance (Azure Consumed Revenue, revenue, gross margin), and ensuring quality management. While the company and its customers are undergoing digital and AI transformation, this specific role is about managing the delivery of these solutions, not building or researching AI/ML models themselves.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will represent GCID in the delivery of large transformational deals from origination through delivery stabilization. This includes working with cross-functional, cross-organizational teams and providing customer-facing executive leadership through the delivery lifecycle.
  2. As the appointed leader for strategic customer delivery, you will orchestrate across architects, project managers and technical delivery teams within GCID .
  3. This includes driving the strategy for project delivery aligned with committed project outcomes and development of robust project plans to drive predictable delivery outcomes.
  4. As the strategic GCID leader you will orchestrate the initiation and mobilization of delivery teams and ensure alignment and land expected delivery outcomes.
  5. You will be a part of Microsoft steering committees and enable faster executive decision making, escalation path for delivery and triage with engineering.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field
  • 20+ years experience in project management

Nice to have

  • Experience in driving large transformational projects as CTO/CIO of large corporation or as a delivery leader at a technology/IT services organization
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) and Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification
  • 8+ years financial management experience
  • Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification
  • Experience in creating and managing intellectual property (IP)
  • Experience in creating publications

What the JD emphasized

  • 20+ years experience in project management