苏州招聘

Job Category: Software Engineering: Program Management

Location: China, Beijing

Job ID: 794233

Product: Bing

Division: Online Services Division

Group: Search Technology Center Asia

Position: Senior Program Manager

Work Location: Beijing, China

Reports to: MJ Lee (alias: mjlee)

Search Technology Center Asia (STCA)

STCA was founded in year 2005 and is now starting the second “Five-Year Plan” after the merge with the Ads Platform Center in 2011. The team has not only built up its strengths and expanded its scope, but also set a shared goal, broadened its vision, and equipped with richer resources that gives the team the confidence to scale new heights.

STCA is now focusing on the following areas: the continuous exploration of Bing search technology; the technical innovation of online advertisement services; the development of the MSN social platform; and the development of mobile search applications. Today, STCA has hundreds of excellent employees and is the largest R&D team of the Microsoft Online Service Division outside the United States.

微软亚洲搜索技术中心

微软亚洲搜索技术中心由搜索技术和广告技术研发团队组成，其研发方向涵盖四大领域： 微软必应（Bing）搜索引擎技术，在线广告技术，MSN社交网络及移动互联网研发。微软亚洲搜索技术中心是微软全球在线产品研发的一支重要团队和中坚力量，同时它也肩负着推动微软在中国及亚太地区在线服务市场发展的使命。为达成这一使命，微软亚洲搜索技术中心在北京建立了世界一流的地区性研发中心，与微软亚洲研究院、微软消费者互联网国际产品部等部门密切协作，致力于将微软搜索及广告产品开发团队提升为高效的、全球性的开发组织。同时中心为每一位才华横溢的工程技术人员和商业管理人员的职业发展提供丰富的机会与挑战。

The charter of the MSN Social Platform team is to support Microsoft Online Service Division product needs and to develop end-to-end user facing features to grow bigger and more sticky user base. The scale covers global market and aligns to the top division goals around Mobile and Local strategy. We are also in a unique advantage position to leverage research works from Microsoft Research Asia that has been proven helpful on rapid product innovation in the past five years.

Roles & Responsibilities

- We are looking for a program manager who is results oriented and passionate about building an engaging social services and world-class social platform for users within both the US and international markets. Market trends indicate that user spend more and more time in online social networks and engage more with online content due to social integration.

- As a senior program manager, you will be responsible for analyzing customer, understanding social ecosystem and market requirements within the online social domain and putting together a functional specification to deliver innovative features. This role will involve close collaboration with development and test team members to plan, design, implement, and ship user experience and platform services to MSN users. You will be responsible for conducting quantitative analysis within key markets within US, Europe and Asia, as well as driving an engineering feature team using agile methodologies. You will need to work closely with colleagues in our US headquarters to manage inter-dependency of the projects. You will also work with peer program managers as well as Microsoft Research researchers on driving product and technology innovations. You must have strong core program management skills - understanding the online service industry and internet user behavior, enjoy writing technical specifications, being analytical and detailed-oriented, having a proven track record of effectively leading small teams to deliver software products, and be fluent in oral and written communication in English.

Required Qualifications

- You must possess a strong user experience, computer science or mathematical background, a good grasp of software engineering principles, exceptional problem solving skills and a minimum of four years’ experience in delivering high quality software solutions. A demonstrated ability to come up to speed quickly on a new technical domain and having a strong customer empathy is desired. Excellent interpersonal communication skills, written communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment distributed across geographical locations are very important.

- Knowledge and experience in any of the following areas is a strong plus: User experience design, information retrieval, data mining, SQL/scripting languages.

- This position is located in Beijing, China.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity

GCR:CN:DEV:EN

Search Technology Center Asia invites you to join!

STCA was founded in 2005 and is now starting the second “Five-Year Plan” after integrating with Ads Platform and Bing Mobile in 2011. The new team has not only built up its strengths and expanded its scope, but also set a shared goal, broadened its vision, and is equipped with richer resources that give the team the confidence to scale new heights.
STCA is now focusing on the following areas: the continuous exploration of Bing search technology; the technical innovation of online advertisement services; the development of the MSN social platform; and the development of mobile search applications, and the next generation of Microsoft’s speech and natural language platform. Today, STCA is the largest R&D team of the Microsoft Online Services Division outside the United States with investment plans to scale well over 460 in FY12.
We have many exciting openings in STCA for DEV, Research SDE, Researcher, TEST, and PM across all feature teams of Bing, Ads, MSN Social, Mobile Search, and Speech Technology. All our openings are available from external website www.bingjobs.com or careers.microsoft.com. STCA invites you to join!

微软亚洲互联网工程院诚邀您的加入！
微软亚洲互联网工程院由搜索技术和广告技术研发团队组成，其研发方向涵盖五大领域： 微软必应（Bing）搜索引擎技术，在线广告技术，MSN社交网络,移动互联网及语音处理的研发。微软亚洲互联网工程院是微软全球在线产品研发的一支重要团队和中坚力量，同时它也肩负着推动微软在中国及亚太地区在线服务市场发展的使命。为达成这一使命，微软亚洲互联网工程院在北京建立了世界一流的地区性研发中心，与微软亚洲研究院、微软消费者互联网国际产品部等部门密切协作，致力于将微软搜索及广告产品开发团队提升为高效的、全球性的开发组织。同时中心为每一位才华横溢的工程技术人员和商业管理人员的职业发展提供丰富的机会与挑战。
我们在必应搜索，广告，MSN 社交网络,移动互联及语音处理五大领域都有众多开发，研究员，测试和产品经理的职位空缺。我们职位信息的外部网站是www.bingjobs.com 或者careers.microsoft.com。微软亚洲互联网工程院诚邀您的加入！