The Office of the CTO includes a team of Technical Advisors, each covering a subset of our core initiatives. The Technical Advisor (TA) to the EVP/CTO functions in a role that extends the capacity of the CTO and the CTO’s broader team by generating research, synthesizing insights into specific technical domains, doing hands-on prototyping & technical exploration, driving initiatives that span across the organization, and helping multiple teams to move towards common goals across Microsoft.
The role requires tight coordination and collaboration with leaders including Technical Fellows & Distinguished Engineers, engineering team leaders, TA to the CEO, and the Corporate Strategy group. She/he will help the CTO with technical prioritization decisions, understanding key industry technical and social trends, and other research priorities.
This Technical Advisor role will focus on our LinkedIn platform, including working across all organizations within LinkedIn (such as Data, AI, Platform, Infrastructure, amongst others) and bridging a connection with Microsoft teams (e.g. Office, Dynamics, Bing, and Azure). This role will work across these teams across LinkedIn and Microsoft toward a common vision and then facilitate planning and execution for the space across Microsoft where there is affinity. This includes identifying joint product/market opportunities for features and services, leveraging tech assets from each other, and building solutions together.
Responsibilities
- Research to synthesize key opportunities, issues, and progress to-date. Generate briefs that synthesize shared and divergent points of view and positions. Research scope may vary from small investigations to substantial areas.
- Drive projects that require collaboration from multiple teams across Microsoft and LinkedIn while sharing a common strategic vision. Help teams evolve their understanding of a new Microsoft culture of engineering, in partnership with the engineering leaders who develop and prescribe new evidence based practices.
- Produce reading material for the CTO and other senior engineering leaders with summations, highlighted focus areas for deep processing, and prioritized order of consuming these reading materials. The reading will include the synthesis of a broad range of materials (academic research, business media & consultancies reports, white papers of internal teams, etc.).
- Engage with CTO on iterative investigations and prototyping as needed. Drill down into technical areas based on the CTO’s request and personal sense of company priorities/market trends. Create and maintain iterative mini-brainstorms to ensure alignment with CTO thought leadership and just-in-time fluidity of investigation efforts.
- Produce a range of recommendations based on research. Those may range from vision to individual solutions, depending on the topic, scope, and complexity.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of technical program management or software engineering experience
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- Familiarity with products and services from LinkedIn (e.g. Professional site, Sales Navigator, Learning) and/or Microsoft (e.g. Office, Dynamics, Bing, and Azure)
- Demonstrated experience defining the vision, roadmap, implementation, and launch of enterprise, business, or consumer software
- Demonstrated ability to navigate organizations and influence leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- Existing network in LinkedIn and/or Microsoft
- Able to deal with high levels of ambiguity and drive clarity to senior leadership
- Strong communication style that conveys expertise, clarity, and confidence. Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently in written or verbal form. Track record of speaking externally is a plus.
- Familiarity with LinkedIn and Microsoft Open Source projects
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