Microsoft
Date: Apr
21, 2012
Location:
Redmond, WA, US
Job
Category: Operations
Location:
Redmond, WA, US
Job ID:
785499-75040
Division:
Operations
Product
Manager - WWLP Product Licensing. Ready for a dynamic role with cutting-edge
business challenges and rapid professional development in a high-performance
environment? WWLP is the group within Microsoft responsible for strategically
licensing our products and cloud services to organizational customers -
commercial enterprises, governments, and academic institutions. As part of
WWLP, you’ll help drive over $30 billion of the company’s revenues while
dealing with some of the most exciting, complex, and next generation business
challenges facing the company today.
In this
role, you will have visibility and insight into all of Microsoft’s new
licensing for enterprise customers. You will learn how we develop our
monetization strategies and then ensure that our product licensing launches and
strategic licensing model changes are effectively rolled out both internally
and externally. You will interface with senior product managers across most
Microsoft products including Windows Client, Windows Server, Office,
SharePoint, Exchange, and SQL, making sure we have a clear and coordinated road
map. You will manage our licensing communications, working with vendors and our
Business Marketing Group, and will need to understand new technology trends,
how they impact our licensing and monetization, and how best to ensure a clear
understanding of how to use our software and services. Finally, you will own
the relationship with our key licensing stakeholders and customers, helping the
team leverage their expertise for customer feedback and strategy development.
Career
growth opportunities include moving into a senior product manager position to
own the development of the licensing strategy for specific Microsoft products
or programs. This is a key role that provides you with deep insight into how
Microsoft monetizes its intellectual property.
Job
responsibilities include
- Provide strategic input and assist
making business decisions to help Microsoft monetize its enterprise products.
- Coordination of all Microsoft
commercial licensing launches from Product Licensing perspective
- Project management of product
licensing collateral and rhythm including legal documents like the Product Use
Rights
- Identification of gaps in
customer/field knowledge and development of solutions to close the gap
- Project management of team road
map and cross-WWLP initiatives that impact Product Licensing
As
technology trends erupt, competitors react, and our own products evolve, you
will be involved in high-profile decisions with long-term impact on the
strategic direction of Microsoft. Recent issues addressed include: alternative
computing models, Services plus Software, Cloud Computing, and server and
desktop virtualization.
Skills and
qualifications:
-
Exceptional critical thinking skills,
- Ability to
think strategically about technology and its business implications,
- Strong
project management skills
- Top-tier
problem-solving skills,
- Achieve
results despite ambiguity,
- Excellent
communication skills
- Work well
in cross-group collaborative situations,
- 3-5 years
of demonstrated experience in consulting, business model development, or
business development
- Bachelor’s
degree in Business or Technology with an MBA strongly preferred
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