I am looking for two great people (and maybe more!).  First and foremost I am looking for marketing professionals.  Has your professional career included marketing for technology companies?  Do you want to work somewhere that empowers you to execute great marketing plans?  Have you got a passion around developers and how they use the .NET Framework?  If you think you might fit the bill and are interested, send me your resume. 

Here are some additional details on the role.  One of the Product Manager roles is focused on WF and the other on WCF.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Product Manager 

Are you passionate about software development and exciting developers to create the next generation of applications with WCF? Do public speaking and high visible business, travel and working across teams motivate you? Are you interested in playing a crucial role in the future development of Microsoft’s Developer WCF strategy and how it affects developers? Behind every great product is a great product manager: someone who combines passion with an understanding of the developer community’s need, technical know-how with business strategy, unbridled creativity with customer-focused pragmatism, long term strategic-thinking with effective tactical execution.

As a Product Manager on the .NET Framework Marketing team you will own a business strategy that helps drive technical evangelism and customer readiness for some of the most prominent technologies in Microsoft’s platform offering. To succeed in this role you must be able to effectively communicate a winning value prop for developers around architecture and managing WCF within their current and future applications. You will be a key public spokesperson for WCF, delivering compelling technical presentations at developer conferences and briefings and briefing industry analysts/press on product news and information. You will also have a key responsibility in communicating your findings back to corporate decision makers thru quarterly business reviews and other meetings. As a member of this fast-paced dynamic team, you will forge relationships with other product managers, program managers, key members of the Developer Division, Corporate and DPE field as well as with the Connected Systems Division product team as it pertains to WCF.

Qualifications should include:

· A desire to work on a critical technology that will make a difference in how developers write software

· An interest in joining a marketing team that likes to work hard and have just as much fun

· Undergraduate degree in technical field preferred but not required

· Real world software development experience preferred but not looking for someone who is coding today

· Excellent verbal & written communications

· Highly motivated, posses a strong passion for technology, be self-sufficient and be able to operate effectively under tight deadlines without supervision.

· Should have deep familiarity with Microsoft Software Developer technologies including exposure to Visual Studio and the .NET Framework (knowledge of or experience with distributed application development preferred)

· Need to be able to meet with a variety of people ranging from product managers, program managers, developers and customers as well as industry influencers.

· Strong project management along with resource and budget management skills a plus