[nfbwatlk] Job announcements for Roles in Microsoft ASG Group

[Nightingale, Noel]

From: Olson, Toby (ESD) [mailto:TOlson2 at ESD.WA.GOV]
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 8:16 AM
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Subject: FW: Roles in Microsoft ASG Group


From: Jenny Lay-Flurrie [mailto:jennylf at microsoft.com]
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 4:56 PM
To:
Subject: Roles in Microsoft ASG Group

Hi there folks,

Wanted to let you know about some positions we have opened this week at Microsoft.  These are part of the Inclusive Hiring Programs focused on bringing talent into the company.  Some of these you may have heard of: Autism pilot<http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/04/03/microsoft-announces-pilot-program-to-hire-people-with-autism/>, Supported Employment Program<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/procurement/diversity-sep.aspx>, roles in my own Trusted Experience team (thank you for leads here!), as well as through broader Microsoft divisions.  I know you all get this so I won't labor the point but hiring people with empathy understanding and/or experience with disability will help us to build better products and services.

This week we posted two new job descriptions in our Applications and Services Group which works on products such as Office and SharePoint - these Software Engineer and Program Manager positions and there are multiple roles open in each discipline area. These roles are both posted at http://aka.ms/ASGaccessibilityjobs and copied into this email below. If you know someone you think would be a great candidate, please send their resume my way (jennylf at microsoft.com<mailto:jennylf at microsoft.com>) or to our disability careers email alias at dcareers at microsoft.com<mailto:dcareers at microsoft.com>.

Thank you again for all your help, thoughts and recommendations and please, don't hesitate to send this on or pass on my contact information.

Jenny
Chair Disability Employee Resource Group
Microsoft


Software Engineer 2
Office needs you!   Come join the core Office teams as we tackle deep technical challenges to transition our core productivity apps to the mobile first, cloud first world- and help us grow from a productivity platform used by millions of people each day, to one people love to use.
We're working hard to improve the experience for all users across multiple input methods - and strongly believe that by improving accessibility of our products, we improve the experience for everyone.   To enable this vision, it starts with us.   This is where you come in:   we need Software Engineers with a wide range of skills and traits for all aspects of disability, including blindness, mobility, deafness, cognitive and speech and how accessibility can drive improvements to the overall user experience.
Now is the time to take advantage of the reach of Office and figure out how to innovate and improve our products rapidly for our customers.   How will we evolve our engineering tools, approach, and mindset to support rapid innovation while matching our customer's high expectations for world class quality and experiences?   How do we solve really tough technical challenges like real time collaboration?   How will we adapt to mobile first, cloud first world?   To accomplish this, we need stellar software engineers who love to work hard to solve tough problems, takes pride in engineering to create world class software, drives for customer outcomes, uses data to make the right product decisions, and loves to work together as a team.
We need engineers with a wide range of skills   and experiences as well as those with empathy for all aspects of disability, including blindness, mobility, deafness, cognitive and speech and how accessibility can drive improvements to the overall user experience.
Your responsibilities include:
* Design, engineer, validate & ship product improvements.
* Develop code 'dark' to support an evergreen, frequently shipping codebase.
* Instrument features to allow for telemetry, hypothesis testing, and analysis for key customer insights
* Author tools, scripts and engineering infrastructure to improve our engineering efficiency
* Measure & protect your features with unit tests, automation, performance/load tests, monitoring and alerting
* Support your teammates with excellent collaboration and teamwork
Requirements:
* Experience working on accessibility related projects
* A BS degree in Computer Science or related experience
* 2+ years' experience shipping production quality software
* Passion for customers and engineering high quality products
* Excellent engineering skills in design, debugging and problem solving
* Effective communication skills and ability to work cross group and across disciplines.
* Fluency with at least one of the following: C#, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, or HTML/CSS * Desirable: Azure, Live Site Experience, REST APIs, Mac, iOS, Android, Services, Web Apps, Data Analytics
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.


Program Manager

Office needs you!   Come join the core Office teams as we tackle deep technical challenges to transition our core productivity apps to the mobile first, cloud first world - and help us grow from a productivity platform used by millions of people each day, to one people love to use.

We're working hard to improve the experience for all users across multiple input methods - and strongly believe that by improving accessibility of our products, we improve the experience for everyone.   To enable this vision, it starts with us.   This is where you come in:   we need Program Managers with a wide range of skills and traits for all aspects of disability, including blindness, mobility, deafness, cognitive and speech and how accessibility can drive improvements to the overall user experience.

Now is the time to take advantage of the reach of Office and figure out how to innovate and improve our products rapidly for our customers.   How will we evolve our engineering tools, approach, and mindset to support rapid innovation while matching our customer's high expectations for world class quality and experiences?   How do we solve really tough technical challenges like real time collaboration?   How will we adapt to mobile first, cloud first world?   We need program managers to help design, drive implementation, and measure a set of industry leading features and experiences.

This role requires working closely with engineering, user research, and marketing teams to understand the needs of Office customers worldwide as well as having empathy for all aspects of disability, including blindness, mobility, deafness, cognitive and speech and how accessibility can drive improvements to the overall user experience.

Requirements:

* Experience working on accessibility related projects

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

* Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-team negotiation skills; experience driving key initiatives across large organizations

* Excellent project management skills

* Strong technical skills; ability to quickly ramp up on new technologies and provide technical leadership for a product

* Strong understanding of mobile market landscape, competitive products and services

Successful Traits:

* Data Driven: Strong data analysis skills because we take pride in making data-driven decisions while defining, building the necessary tools to gather, track, and measure key data points

* Passion for Product: Immersed and obsessed with details of design and implementation across a range of platforms

* Collaboration: Exceptional collaborator on complex multi-faceted product management across multiple groups with varying priorities

* Customer and Partner Focus: Proven experience driving business impact based on a deep understanding of customer needs

* Influencing Others: Ability to move others across organizational boundaries to a desired business outcome when there is no clear "ownership" of an issue

* Self-driven leader looking to make direct and measurable business impacts collaborating with partners

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status




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