Job Vacancies at Microsoft Nigeria (Internship & Experienced) – 11 Positions

Job Number: 1132372
Location: Nigeria
Travel: None
Profession: Sales
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment Type: Internship

Job Description

• You identify our customers' challenges and solve them through the latest software and services solutions.
• You will be our customers’ trusted consultant, thoroughly evaluating the health of their IT platforms and development environments and diagnosing areas for improvement.
• Your solutions drive measurable value, helping customers run their businesses more cost-effectively and efficiently and giving them a competitive edge in their marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Positions Microsoft solutions in the competitive landscape through research and collaboration utilizing industry expertise to differentiate Microsoft solutions.
• Identifies market and customer needs and collaborates with internal teams to devise solutions to meet those needs.
• Develops and manages pipelines for territory and forecasts resource needs.
• Meets with customers on-site to deepen relationships and solution development.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or have completed Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration / Management, Marketing, Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• Strong desire and business acumen for consultative solution selling
• Exceptional negotiation, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.

Benefits and Perks

• Industry-leading healthcare
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, colour, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Job Number: 1125089
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Travel: 25-50 %
Profession: Business Development & Strategy
Role Type: People Manager

Details

• Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
• We are excited to be hiring for the newly established Microsoft Africa Transformation Office (ATO), a key strategic & transformational team dedicated to Africa. We are looking for highly motivated and talented team members to bring our strategy to life. Africa is one of the best places on the planet to bring our mission to life. It is home to 1.3B people and 54 countries. The talent in Africa reflects a tremendously rich and diverse potential that can truly impact the world over the next few decades.
• Our aspiration is to transform Africa to a Cloud-first, Digital-first continent enabling a thriving digital economy across Africa while reinventing Microsoft's digital assets and capabilities to serve the young continent's transformational needs. With that in mind was the establishment of new team; the Africa Transformation Office (ATO), which will be established and chartered with the following:
  • Build strategic, unconventional partnerships with key governments, institutions and enterprises to enable and accelerate digital economy across the African continent.
  • Develop digital marketing engines to enable and accelerate Startups and SMBs.
  • Plan and land infrastructure enablers and game changers in the continent.
  • Enable Africa as a Foreign Direct Investment destination supported by expanding our technologies for MNCs across key industries.
  • Manage the 4Afrika initiative and further integrate it to key company programs and engines to amplify its impact.

Job Description

• Foster digital skilling and job creation to maximize the economic opportunity for the African youth and workforce.
• As the Leader of the Africa Infrastructure and Skilling Enablement pillar you will lead our efforts to set the continent digital assets and infrastructure strategy, and manage with internal and external stakeholders “governments, regulators, infrastructure providers” towards the sucsesfull deployment.
• The lead will also drive the efforts with his team to assess cloud services requirements with the goverments, MNCs and key Enterprise accounts to ensure the deployed assets are inline with the market requirements and meet utilization targets.
• The Lead will also manage our continents dgitial litracy and advanced digitial skilling efforts. Coordinating with all internal stakeholders and strategic partners to deliver on our ambition to skill millions of African youth per annum with a focus on underserved communities, developer communities, Education, Enterprise and Government population.

Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Develops and maintains an understanding of customers, competitors, partners, business models, market sizing, and industry trends in Africa.
• Develops and maintains an understanding of the market environment and trends.
• Leads market landscape analyses and reviews of companies of potential interest.
• Provides guidance to business partners to inform decision-making.
• Uses existing knowledge base to drive a deal thesis and business model.
• Communicates deal thesis and business model.
• Develops an understanding of Microsoft’s product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities. Drives evaluation of Microsoft ATO pillar strategic alternatives (e.g. buy, build, partner) and alternatives.
• Ensures ATO pillar roadmap, go-to-market, integration plans and related issues are considered.
• Represents ATO Strategy through exposure, presence, and influence of Microsoft stakeholders and leadership.

 Research, Analysis, & Framing:

• Guides others in conducting innovative Africa wide market-based research by leveraging and interpreting information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls) around high-impact strategic questions, including researching within existing businesses and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; involves stakeholders as appropriate; leverages analyses of others to synthesize information and challenges research of others.
• Owns framing for broad research projects, ratifying with executives; assists colleagues with framing as needed.

 Problem Solving & Solutioning:

• Synthesizes broad findings into insights across a division, including implications that inform business decisions on complex issues, leveraging executive presence to influence decisions and proactively driving solutions to high-impact strategic questions and unaddressed opportunities.
• Identifies and scopes expansive ideas for company strategy, often missed by others; leverages insights to develop recommendations and provide thought leadership (e.g., trend identification, implications of competitor moves) around potential future growth opportunities and strategic issues for Microsoft.
• Sells value of new efforts to business partners and/or senior leadership.
• Guides team through development of frameworks and methodologies to drive problem solving and insights.

 Communication:

• Ensures communication of insights to senior business leaders (e.g., GM-level, CVP, EVP, CEO) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through minimal iterations of feedback and vetting;
• Builds end-to-end storylines and creates outlines across multiple projects for junior colleagues to leverage.
• Influences senior decision-making by providing communications, challenging ideas, and adapting messages to complex nuances as needed.
• Communicates value of new efforts to business partners and/or senior leadership.

 Business Partner Relationships:

• Manages key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., MEA HQ, MEA Subs, MCAPS, Finance, CELA, Marketing, Engineering, BD, LinkedIn, GitHub,…etc.)
• Manages and cultivates relationships with senior internal leaders (e.g., GM-level, CVP, EVP, CEO).
• Acts as an advisor to senior leadership as an ATO pillar domain expert within Microsoft , leveraging deep technical/product and business knowledge, market awareness, and subject matter expertise to inform strategic business decisions.
• Demonstrates influences through partners across multiple divisions.
• Provides career mentorship to colleagues outside of ATO function and is sought out by others for guidance and education.
• Ensures opportunities for junior team members to develop business partner relationships.
• Identifies compelling projects and positions the team to carry them out.

Project Leadership:

• Manages multiple ATO pillar projects and teams across organizational boundaries as a project lead through goals, deliverables, feedback, resource balancing, and timing expectations; proactively identifies complex roadblocks and address them.
• Initiates and drives multiple projects and topic areas including project plans, recommendations, impact, and syndication across groups.
• Leads cross-company initiatives as a lead member of virtual teams, demonstrating impact across numerous divisions.
• Identifies, evaluates, and proposes new project work/deals based on unmet needs. Advises others to indirectly lead projects.

Customer and Partner Focus:

• Leverages internal and external relationships as a trusted advisor to advise complex (e.g., large, high impact) customers and partners on domain expertise as a sought-out resource across multiple lines of business, geographies, and cultures, as appropriate; advises partners and decision-makers on the industry and company.
• Drives internal strategy and provides guidance to team in executing partnerships.
• Drives customer and partner business initiatives, and contributes to customer's strategy discussions; influences the product roadmap, prioritization, and customer and partner decision making.
• Looks across accounts to identify and address broad issues and trends.
• Drives strategic thinking among the team and fosters a culture of customer and partner focus.
• Creates business value propositions based on company, partner, and/or customer needs that drive long-term value creation. Drives support and action by influencing internal stakeholders and partners and promoting the value of opportunities.
• Management of External Engagement & Stakeholders Management
• People Leadership: deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring, upholding the Company Culture & Values
• Reporting: interpret, add to, and apply reports to add value in generating and executing ATO pillar plans.

Required / Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience.
• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
• OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).
• 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.
• 3+ years project, people, and/or change management experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• Experience working in and/or covering multiple African countries with strong track record of achievements.
• 10+ years’ experience in large Enterprise and/or Government ICT sales leadership, with track record of large complex ICT programs and projects
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of Networks, Infrastructure, DCs and cloud services offerings.
• Proven track record in executing successful national and/or regional digital skilling programs
• Program management Experience and proven track record of execution of large complex initiatives and projects.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience working in a matrixed organization, preferably in the technology industry.
• 5+ years project, people, and/or change management experience.
• 10+ years experience in a related business/ functional domain.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Number: 1125332
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

• Do you want to work in a highly impactful area with passionate and creative people who are dedicated to building compliant products and services, and helping meet commitment to our Customers that Microsoft runs on Trust? Are you interested in learning more about Windows internals, and the protocols that work behind the scenes to make everyday tasks and computer operations happen? Come join the W+D CARE (Compliance and App Readiness Experiences) team, part of the Windows and Devices organization. The team focuses on protocol engineering, privacy engineering, tools and platform development, which are critical to Microsoft's business.
• We are an energetic and innovative team. Our daily work would equip you with in-depth knowledge on protocol and networking parsing, leverage Azure technologies and web front-end technologies to build services, at the same time you are encouraged to use new technologies like Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to solve real business challenges.
• We leverage in-depth Windows protocols knowledge and networking parsing knowledge to build protocol test suites and network parsers detailed to each bit, and host/support world-wide interoperability events in US and Europe with 100+ industry partner companies’ participation yearly, which is critical to help Microsoft meet and exceed compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and platforms to support protocol engineering, which are open sourced on GitHub;
• Respond to open source community on GitHub
• Represent Microsoft to attend Worldwide Interoperability Plugfest events
• Implement server / client protocol behavior to guarantee Windows Protocol document quality and validate windows interoperability for new windows releases or updates to ensure Microsoft’s antitrust compliance commitment.
• Develop other compliance related tools / Azure services utilizing latest technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 - 10 years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with scripting Languages like Python / PowerShell.
• Experience with Machine Learning and Natural Language processing would be an advantage.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Job Number: 1122697
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

• The Microsoft device ecosystem is evolving rapidly. As we’ve evolved our Windows Update capability for a SaaS delivery model, we’ve learned how important it is for the update experience to harmonize with our mission to empower users to be more productive. User experience and productivity is impacted when updates go wrong, when updates aren’t coordinated, or when updates aren’t installed in a timely manner.
• Our team’s charter is to build an Azure service called Test Base for Microsoft 365 aimed at our commercial customers and partners that can drive efficiency into their app validation process, with intelligence and tools to manage it. We have a startup team culture and believe in being experimental, learning constantly, being scrappy while bringing order to disorder.
• We believe great ideas come from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cognitive styles. We actively create an environment where everyone’s ideas can be heard and can contribute towards great outcomes. We live and breathe Microsoft’s mission to empower every single person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer demand signals, data insights and research into product release priorities that ensure business growth.
• Engage directly with customers, ISV’s and SI’s, at the CIO/CTO level, supporting executive briefings and innovation partnerships.
• Measure, understand and improve our product offering.
• Identify opportunities and innovative scenarios that make Azure the cloud of choice for app validation.
• Establish adoption strategies and execution plans to drive growth.
• Drive decisive action in partnership with other Microsoft field team and deliver results that depend on other divisions and external partners.
• Remove customer barriers to cloud adoption around the world.

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 - 7 years product development engineering experience with at least 4 years as a Program Manager.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated track record of defining a technology/product vision, building partner commitment around it, and successfully delivering on time.
• Detail oriented and results driven.
• Proven track record of executing and managing cross-team projects.
• Excellent communication skills that can provide clarity and articulate ideas to audiences that include customers, engineering, design, and executive leadership.
• Strong leadership skills
• Familiarity with fundamentals of cloud-native services.
• Familiarity with test automation, and robotic process automation.
• Experience developing APIs.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Job Number: 1098612
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Legal & Corporate Affairs
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

• At Microsoft, we believe technology is a powerful force for improving people’s lives. We see it every day in our work - whether it is students discovering the magic of creating something new with code, or health workers who use cloud services to diagnose illnesses better, collaborate with colleagues, and treat patients. Through Microsoft Philanthropies we will help fulfil Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by providing the benefits of technology, and the skills to use and create it, to people and organizations who need them the most. We advance the company’s mission by making the opportunities of our rapidly evolving digital economy accessible to all people, particularly those most at risk of being left behind.
• We are looking for a seasoned Corporate Social Responsibility/Corporate Philanthropy professional who will be charged with managing the local enablement and implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies across Sub Sahran Africa, reporting to the MEA Regional Director of Microsoft Philanthropies.

Responsibilities
The Philanthropies’ Lead reports to the MEA Philanthropies Regional Director and has the following responsibilities:

• Represent the Microsoft Philanthropies organization in Sub Sahran Africa, serving as subject-matter-expert and liaison for business stakeholders, providing timely insight, feedback and expert field implementation of Microsoft Philanthropies’ top strategies and priorities.
• Work with the Sub Sahran Africa countries Leadership team to represent the Philanthropies core strategies and initiatives to drive maximum impact and align with the business priorities.
• Work with the Microsoft Philanthropies programs teams to implement core strategies and programs for the maximum impact, including Skills and Employability, S500 Engagement, AI4Good, Employee Engagement, public policy and advocacy initiatives, and social good marketing.
• Develop and execute a strategic plan, setting goals, aligning with internal and external stakeholders, balancing investment delivery through both a depth approach and breadth tactics enabling broad reach of beneficiaries.
• Build a rhythm of engagement between MEA Philanthropies and the Sub Sahran Africa Philanthropies to provide guidance and content to drive excellence in execution.
• Provide insights and feedback to global field guidance and programmatic planning, as well as to adapt content for local implementation of programs and campaigns.

Core Priorities

• Digital Skills and Employability:
  • Develop Digital Skills and Employability strategies to equip underserved communities with computing and AI skills to be employed in the digital economy.
  • Execute on Micrsoft Africa National Development plan working closely with multistakeholders to define the DS+E strategy for Sub Sahran Africa to drive scale and impact.
• Philanthropic Partnerships:
  • Engage Microsoft’s most important strategic customers and partners in Sub Sahran countries to advance Microsoft’s Philanthropic while deepening partnerships with our most strategic customers.
  • Focus on developing and fostering partnership opportunities to advance our priorities in Digital Skills & Employability, AI for Good, and in driving Employee Engagement.
• Outreach, advocacy, and influence: Build perception and awareness of Microsoft's societal impact.  Partner with Public Affairs, Government Affairs, and Communications and Marketing teams to support the effective implementation of social good marketing campaigns to help achieve programmatic goals.
• Contribute to driving Business Impact: Build strategic partnerships with the subsidiaries in Sub Sahran countries, align with the local country plan so that Philanthropies programs help open doors and strengthen relationships that can pave the way for business impact.
• Operational / Administrative: Manage budgets effectively, including allocation, management of the forecast and spend, on time and within compliance.

Other

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7+ years experience as a Corporate Social Responsibility practitioner in a corporate or nonprofit setting working across the Sub Sahran  region.
• Experience in managing and implementing employability programs both job placement and entrepreneurship.
• Proven ability and experience in developing and managing public-private partnerships.
• Fluency in English (REquired) and French (preferred).
• Creative, innovative and growth mindset.
• Strategic and inclusive thinking.
• Ability to communicate effectively with direct teams, internal and external stakeholders, customers, and leaders in a matrixed environment.
• National understanding and context:  Ability to execute programs to deliver measurable impact against the local, provincial, and national contexts in Canada.
• Aptitude to understand the programmatic solutions and how to apply to the market opportunity.
• Strong understanding of emerging digital technologies and the opportunities that these new trends offer to advance social and economic outcomes.
• Aptitude to understand how to leverage Cloud and AI technology in addressing Societal challenges.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
•  If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Job Number: 1120059
Location: Lagos
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

• Do you want to work in a highly impactful area with passionate and creative people who are dedicated to building compliant products and services, and helping meet commitment to our Customers that Microsoft runs on Trust? If so, the Windows, Devices, and Gaming (WDG) Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC) team in the Experiences + Devices organization is looking for an accomplished Senior Program Manager to lead and drive high quality compliance programs, operations and tooling.
• In addition to enhancing customer trust, the mission of the GRC organization is to protect Microsoft revenue by managing risk, ensuring resiliency, exceeding internal and external regulatory, and overall product quality and compliance for key products and services.

Responsibilities

• As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for working with a team of professionals focused on supporting and driving Microsoft compliance programs and chartered with ensuring that Microsoft products and services meet regulatory requirements and corporate policies and principles. This position requires the ability to navigate across the Enterprise with coordination at all levels, excellent oral and written communication skills, and the ability to formulate issues and recommendations clearly.  The role will focus on ensuring that business-aligned tactics are in place to support delivery of our company-wide goals and objectives.
• Work with customers and partners to successfully onboard them to compliance services.
• Help define requirements and write specifications for new tooling capabilities, develop workflow diagrams, perform risk/cost benefit analyses, and be a conduit to the GRC engineering team.
• Work cross-functionally with all areas of the program, including product and services teams, CELA, process partners and other key stakeholders by driving compliance rhythm of business and GRC leadership awareness of compliance issues and opportunities.
• Update and maintain data in business systems and resolve data quality issues with business owners and engineering teams.
• Monitor and report progress against various compliance goals.
• Monitor compliance bugs, tasks and exception requests, working with engineering teams to identify deadlines, and ensure resolutions on-time.
• Manage content of internal team documentation and websites to improve communication within our team and engineering teams.

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 7-10 years prior experience in technical program management/product development engineering

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/BA in Computer Science; Information Systems, Engineering, Business or related field or the equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated track record of defining process/product strategy, building partner commitment around it, and successfully delivering on time.
• Excellent skill in authoring precision functional specifications.
• Strong leadership skills with great verbal/written communication and results driven.
• Excellent process-oriented project management, organizational skills and detailed oriented.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in cross-group environments; high collaboration and social skills.
• Demonstrated foresight to identify potential issues for Microsoft and address them proactively.
• Must be able to work well in a team environment and with ambiguity.
• Technical depth in feature and cross-dependency architectures.
• Ability to understand a range of hardware/software technologies.
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills to work through conflicts diplomatically, ability to drive clarity in chaos and organize people’s workload.
• Strong focus on engineering excellence and positive team culture.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams and partners.
• Prior working experience in compliance programs, operations or tooling.
• Experience with Microsoft tools such as ADO, GitHub, SharePoint, etc.
• Experience with data integration/database engineering platforms and service.
• Familiarity with Live Site and DevOps best practices
• Experience with ML/AI and statistics
• Experience developing APIs and coding.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / Perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Job Number:1098146
Location: Lagos
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Overview

• Our team, a part of the Windows and Devices organization focuses on protocol engineering, privacy engineering, tools and platform development, which are critical to Microsoft's business.
• Are you interested in learning more about Windows internals, and the protocols that work behind the scenes to make everyday tasks and computer operations happen? Come join our team. We are an energetic and innovative team.
• Our daily work would equip you with in-depth knowledge on protocol and networking parsing, leverage Azure technologies and web front-end technologies to build services, at the same time you are encouraged to use new technologies like Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to solve real business challenges.
• We leverage in-depth Windows protocols knowledge and networking parsing knowledge to build protocol test suites and network parsers detailed to each bit, and host/support world-wide interoperability events in US and Europe with 100+ industry partner companies’ participation yearly, which is critical to help Microsoft meet and exceed compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and platforms to support protocol engineering, which are open sourced on GitHub;
• Respond to open source community on GitHub
• Represent Microsoft to attend Worldwide Interoperability Plugfest events
• Implement server/client protocol behavior to guarantee Windows Protocol document quality and validate windows interoperability for new windows releases or updates to ensure Microsoft’s antitrust compliance commitment.
• Develop other compliance related tools/Azure services utilizing latest technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

Required / Minimum Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with scripting Languages like Python/PowerShell
• Experience with Machine Learning and Natural Language processing would be an advantage.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / Perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Job Number: 1078244
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Human Resources
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Responsibilities
What this Role Involves:

• As an Engineering Talent Sourcer you will drive the external search activity against various roles across the EMEA region and focus on one of our key hubs including Prague, Dublin, Tallin, Lagos, Nairobi. The role is hands on sourcing with an element of data insight and mapping.
• This role is more than simple recruiting, you should be able to talk about the Microsoft strategy and articulate career opportunities that truly engages passive talent.
• You must thrive in the hunt, and be focused on networking closely within the industry to identify the right talent and companies to target.
• You’ll cover the basics of recruiting, but more importantly, leverage your business knowledge to develop meaningful recruiting strategies which promote direct methods to source, evaluate, and pipeline exceptional candidates for Microsoft.

This is How You Will Spend Most of Your Time

• Be the driver of external hiring activity, subject expert for sourcing strategies within your target skillsets.
• Directly partner with business leaders and internal recruiters in defining and maintaining core and pivotal pipelines
• Craft custom outreach and meaningful candidate engagement with mostly passive talent
• Work with teams to engage the business early in the recruiting cycle, always promote diverse hires and candidates directly from our key competitors
• Own candidate relationships all the way to the point of an in-person interview, and will be tightly integrated into the feedback process during the interview process
• Research and gather market intelligence. Map our competitors, deliver data driven insight.

This is What We’re Looking For in You

• Knowledge and experience hiring technical skills across the EMEA region. You will likely have experience of tech specific channels such as GitHub, Stack overflow, meetups, Google CSE etc.
• People who are passionate about sourcing activity and can demonstrate innovation in sourcing, exceptional practice & people who are curious and creative in their approach.
• Advanced research/sourcing skills. Including use of Boolean, social media and alternative search techniques.
• High level of influence, can change the mind of passive candidates, can impact hiring manager’s decisions. Confidence and credibility that goes with that.
• Ability to have meaningful conversations with passive talent and persuasive enough to spark interest
• Naturally driven to deliver results with little supervision, and effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects and candidates
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguity, define requirements, advise/consult and push back when required.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to network within the industry to identify top performers.
• Result Oriented, focused on outcomes & KPI achievement, not only inputs.

Qualifications
Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree in HR / related field OR  talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role.

Additional Information
Why us?

• Microsoft enables you to do more and achieve more thorough technology, our talented sourcers enable Microsoft to do more and achieve more through hunting & hiring the best.
• Successful recruiters/sourcers in this role come from a variety of backgrounds including pure researchers from search and selection, industry recruiters and classic talent sourcing / resourcing backgrounds.
• This role is focussed on the external market and the pursuit of the best talent, if this sounds like you and you are up for an incredible challenge, please apply today. We’re a team in growth, we’re on a mission and we’re having fun along the way

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
• If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Job Number: 1084468
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Legal & Corporate Affairs
Role type: Individual Contributor.

Background

• Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
• You can help us achieve our mission.
• Microsoft has an immediate opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced government affairs professional to join the Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) team in the Middle East & Africa Headquarters (MEA HQ) as the Government Affairs manager for Africa. The successful candidate will report to the Government Affairs Lead for MEA HQ.

Responsibilities

• Strategy / Program Management - You advocate for, and manage, policy issues (e.g. social, political, legal, technical), and lead the company’s engagement and campaign with senior internal stakeholders related to government affairs on priority issues, stategies and/or programs; you are a subject matter expert and assess regulatory and/or legislative impact on Microsoft's goals and objectives; you develop and gather an intelligence network of data and relationship interactions.
• Program Development - You shape and contribute to Microsoft's policy agenda in Africa to address complex governmental issues/affairs and business priorities, and develop and/or recommend highly impactful solutions for advancing the agenda while managing risks and consequences; you develop and facilitate program outreach and execution to advance Microsoft’s policy and/or political agenda.
• Issue Resolution - You advise on and respond to key strategic issues, recommending prioritized actions, ensuring alignment with stakeholder positions, and escalating matters, as appropriate.
• External Communication - You direct and align complex or conflicting policy with Microsoft's goals and strategies; you enhance company reputation by driving a communication framework and messaging for Government Affairs; you participate in and assist in developing internal/external events to drive Government Affairs' objectives and social media engagement.
• External Relationships - You develop and influence partnerships with coalitions, the Public Sector, relevant interests groups and industry thought leaders to achieve desired regulatory and/or legislative outcomes; you lead the implementation of improvements to initiatives based on community and stakeholder feedback; you establish Microsoft's reputation as a globally trusted provider of technology and you assist in navigating and minimizing roadblocks.
• Internal Collaboration - You advocate for and manage policy issues and lead Microsoft's engagement with internal stakeholders related to government affairs; you support senior stakeholders by regularly counselling on public policy, geo-political topics and/or cultural context; you provide direction to teammates and you act as a project lead across countries and teams.

Qualifications

• Business Acumen - The ability to understand the parts of the business and their interrelationships. This includes skill in understanding the industry, competition, and expected future developments and challenges, the business's competitive strengths and weaknesses, opportunities to grow the business and reduce operating costs; and awareness of the environment for opportunities.
• Detail Oriented - The ability to attend to and verify the accuracy and completeness of detailed information in documents, on the computer, and/or in other work products.  This includes being able to code, file, compile, transcribe, classify, and/or track details from a variety of different sources/problems/issues.
• Cross Cultural Skills - The ability to conduct business in multiple cultures. This includes the ability to recognize and adapt to cultural differences in work and communication styles across regions or countries.
• Relationship Management - The ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with supervisors, staff, managers, customers, and vendors.  This includes expressing empathy and compassion when dealing with the needs and problems of others, being approachable, taking time to address the concerns of coworkers, and treating others with respect and dignity.
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements - Knowledge of the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines, and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.  This includes knowledge of the legislative process and the ability to track all stages of a law or regulation’s progression from introduction to final passage and assess its impact on the technology policy.
• Political Advocacy, Lobbying and Engagement - Knowledge of public opinion and organized engagement to influence the political process. This includes skill in writing political communication materials, and lobbying to compel or persuade key constituencies and elected officials to take action on behalf of the company.  This may include regionally specific political knowledge and lobbying skill.
• Technology Policy - The ability to understand, anticipate, and forecast the impact of technology on policy. This includes knowledge and awareness of technology concepts, evolution, innovation, and internal and external technological advancements and trends; and of  policy related to technology, including Cloud, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, devices, accessibility, privacy, telecommunications, and internet topics.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
•  If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Job number 1018216
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Description

• The Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX) team, a part of the Windows + Devices (W+D) engineering organization, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to partner with us to build and ship the next generation version of Windows that will touch the lives of 1 Billion+ users worldwide! Help us build modern, intuitive, iconic and delightful user experiences that will propel Windows into the 2020’s.
• We are looking for data-driven and customer-obsessed engineers who like the challenge of working on features that span the entire development stack across the Windows OS, applications and devices and form factors that run the Windows OS, join us to define and deliver the next generation of Windows and the future of how humans experience computing.
• You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows.  We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.
• You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and influencing business opportunities for current and future customers of Windows.  We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical skills to help us accomplish these goals.

Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Be a technical leader on the team and deliver strongly on your areas of technical ownership
• Write technical documentation to describe technical details of your work with architects and key stakeholders.
• Effectively collaborate with talented peers across discipline (PM, Design, Data and Applied Science) to deliver on your work.
• Drive building a positive culture on the team that aligns with Microsoft’s values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field would be an advantage.
• Passion, interest and optionally experience in building user experiences.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.
• 5-10+ years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any language is welcome, but experience with Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc. would be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job number 1104047
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Full-Time
Role type: People Manager
Profession: Sales
Travel: 0-25 %

Summary

• Develops and manages strategic solution sales plan for subsidiary/area (e.g., pipeline management, forecasting, resourcing).
• Identifies market and customer needs and collaborates with internal teams to devise solutions to meet those needs.
• Drives team to discover and qualify new opportunities; drives consumption with new and existing customers.
• Orchestrates team to drive deals across multiple stakeholder groups including partners.
• Coaches team on Microsoft technology differentiators and market knowledge while leading internal collaboration to position Microsoft products, solutions, and services against competitors.

Responsibilities
People Management:

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

Sale Execution:

• Brings impactful industry insights with partners into customer engagements.
• Acts as a thought leader in digital transformation across solution areas to advise customers and represent Microsoft, and coaches others internally on how to do this.
• Leads a virtual cross-organizational team on strategic projects and high impact solution sales deployments that enable digital transformation and deliver business value.
• Leads organization to drive new Digital Transformation projects (e.g., cloud platforms and services) through business outcome selling and expanding customer business decision maker (BDM) connections.
• Leverages stakeholders (e.g., Customer Success team unit, account-aligned team unit, Consulting, One Commercial Partner [OCP] organization) to build pipeline within the territory.
• Applies Microsoft's sales process (MSP) and Microsoft Consumption Process (MCP) to determine the quality of the opportunity/engagement and whether to proceed, and educate the team on how to best address the customer needs.
• Enables the sales team to drive cloud businesses growth at or above targets, and accelerate customer value realization through cloud services consumption across solution areas (e.g., modern workplace, apps and infrastructure, data and artificial intelligence [AI] and business applications, security, support). Reports progress to leadership and removes execution obstacles.
• Coaches their team to remove consumption blockers in pre-sales by collaborating with partners and other internal regional and global teams (e.g., Digital Win Room [DWR], FastTrack, Global Black Belts) and coaches their team how to engage customers to drive cloud services growth, support and consumption in accounts.
• Helps the team create vision for the customers and develop plans to drive sales. Leverages partners (e.g., Global System Integrators, Global Independent Software Vendor [ISV], industry) added value to increase customer outcomes.
• Participates in innovation circles. Represents their team internally at Microsoft as he/she engages internal stakeholders (e.g., Account Team Unit [ATU], Customer Success Unit [CSU], One Commercial Partner [OCP], Worldwide Commercial Business [WCB] Solution Area Leads, Global Black Belts).
• Leads their team on ways to implement and share close plans (e.g., how to map timeline, engage the customer, get customer buy in and commitment) to de-risk and drive predictable deal closure. Seeks alignment with all stakeholders and partners and guides team to work with internal stakeholders to remove blockers.

Scaling Collaboration:

• Guides their team to build a network of partners to cross-sell and up-sell and drive usage.
• Leads the team to identify new partners and evaluate partner capabilities.
• Facilitates the development of partner strategies and ensures execution.
• Provides input and feedback to One Commercial Partner (OCP) on developing partner strategies and building partner capabilities to build and influence the market.
• Coaches the team to drive end-to-end business solutions across solution areas, resulting in increased partner satisfaction and partner deal sharing year-over-year.
• Leads by example to be executive sponsor for Global Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and Global System Integrators (GSIs) and drives sponsorship relationships for all of the Specialist Team Unit (STU) leadership team. Actively participates in the local Partner Governance Council and makes recommendation for Partner Recruitment and Partner Resource Allocation.
• Guides their team to apply the orchestration model with Account Team Unit (ATU), Customer Success Unit (CSU), One Commercial Partner (OCP), Consulting and Global Resources (e.g., Global Black Belts, FastTrack, Digital Win Room [DWR]).
• Establishes approach and practices to promote communication and collaboration across functions.

Technical Expertise:

• Contributes to setting up the events and promoting best practice sharing across subsidiaries and the adoption from other subsidiaries.
• Actively participants in the Specialist Sales Leader community. Leads by example to show the learning culture across the organization.
• Provides expertise to customers/partners and shares knowledge on social media relevant for their market (e.g., LinkedIn). Establishes a sounding board of customers and partners related to technology innovation.
• Coaches their team on business and market knowledge.
• Reviews wins / losses with the team to determine how to identify systematic and non-systematic issues to resolve.
• Develops strategies to position Microsoft products, solutions, and/or services (e.g., cloud services and platforms) against competitors.
• Initiates discussions to share industry trends and insights across the whole organization. Leverages deep technology knowledge and coaches team about Microsoft technology differentiators/competitive advantage.

Sales Excellence:

• Leads their team to explore business and emerging opportunities to optimize the portfolio and facilitate customer innovation to drive growth by leveraging technology, industry and partner expertise. Builds new market by leveraging deep technology expertise and resources.
• Guides their team on ensuring customer/partner satisfaction and facilitates the resolution of technical issues for strategic accounts.
• Establishes standards for customer/partner experiences. Ensures customers are made aware of new technology innovations.
• Drives and oversees integrated strategic planning to exceed cloud growth, drive consumption, and Support revenue and gain market share for the Solution Areas. Drives the integration of that all local, regional and corporate resources (e.g., Digital, Global Black Belts, FastTrack) into the strategic plan. Discusses progress against plan in rhythm of business (ROB) meetings (e.g., Quarterly Business Connect [QBC], Virtual Solutions Unit [VSU]) and aligns the plans of their team across departments.
• Guides their team regarding client performance, in whitespace analysis, and identifying potential new business in their assigned territories.
• Ensures their team meet targets (e.g., sales, usage, customer acquisition) and operational standards and maintains the health of metrics within the assigned subsidiary/area.
• Interacts with Corporate leadership and executive-level stakeholders to get support for their team and the geographical regions.
• Mentors/coaches the team on growing knowledge on sales or products and ensures the team complete training and obtain certifications as required. Seek additional learning opportunities and prioritize to enhance effectiveness.

Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

• 11+ years technology-related sales or account management experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science,  Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Analytics, Data Science, or related field
• 8+ years people management experience.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

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