[nfbcs] Job announcements for Roles in Microsoft ASG Group

[Jim Barbour]

Passing along from the NFB of Washington.

Jim

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