Product Manager II

Product Manager II at Microsoft

The Azure High-Performance Computing/Artificial Intelligence (HPC/AI) team is seeking talented individuals to help drive networking for the largest AI training supercomputers in the world. As a Product Manager II in AI Supercomputing networking, you will collaborate with AI compute product managers, frontier AI model developers, datacenter design and operations experts, and networking vendors. This role involves helping the largest AI supercomputing customers train the most advanced models that power widely used consumer and enterprise software services. This opportunity will accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone practical AI supercomputing skills, and make you adept at working across multiple teams and stakeholders for Microsoft Azure, the world's foremost AI Cloud. This is a flexible work opportunity for which a candidate can partially work from home.

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Responsibilities

• Drive, track, and publish success criteria for backend networking of ultra-large-scale AI supercomputers. Your primary objective, shared with colleagues and partner teams, is to drive maximum operational uptime and AI workload throughput of some of the largest supercomputers on the planet.
• Identify leading and/or unique points of failure affecting your primary goal and associated KPIs, and drive remediations and roadmap changes to address those issues.
• Work across and build trust among a V-team of supercomputing product groups, datacenter site operators, quality control specialists, vendors, business leaders, and customers to achieve your objectives.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience in operating production supercomputers.
• 5+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• Familiarity with RoCE v2, InfiniBand, UCX, MPI, NCCL, RCCL, and distributed memory compute workloads.
• Ability to work overlapping hours with East Coast teams (EST).

Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• AI Supercomputing
• Networking Infrastructure
• Operational Uptime
• KPI Tracking
• Roadmap Management
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Distributed Computing
• Azure Cloud
• Problem Solving