We are looking to hire a Senior Product Manager (PM) to join our team! Azure Edge+Platform [E+P] is responsible for Microsoft’s Operating Systems, IoT and Edge products, Engineering Systems, and Health Platforms that span cloud-to-edge and edge-to-cloud. E+P is the platform team for the company and the foundation upon which virtually every Microsoft product and service, like Azure, Xbox, HoloLens, Visual Studio, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams, is built. E+P products and services enable engineers to build out, deploy, manage, monitor, and secure Azure, Windows, and the rest of Microsoft. Additionally, E+P is responsible for several multibillion-dollar businesses of its own including Windows and Azure Monitor. E+P’s mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, meeting them where they live, work, and make decisions – at the edge.

Engineering Systems [ES] is a team in Azure Edge+Platform that builds and operates the Engineering System for two of the largest businesses at Microsoft: Azure and Windows. We provide our engineers, who work on code ranging from Azure Services to Windows and Linux based products, with tools and services to empower them to deliver world-class quality and secure products, with efficiency and high developer productivity, in a fiscally responsible way. This in turn helps enable Microsoft to deliver more functionality, of higher quality, with better security, and do it faster and more economically.

The Windows Build team is innovating the way first-party and third-party Microsoft developers build, test, and ship code and services to 1 billion+ devices. We are creating an industry leading set of cloud-based services, developer tools, and processes to empower thousands of engineers to develop for Azure and Windows. We are seeking an aspirational product manager who is passionate about developer tooling for Azure, Windows, and Linux products. You will work closely with engineering and the executive team to collaboratively build a strategy and oversee product development. You will demonstrate a history of being customer focused and has a solid foundation working in a technically challenging space. A technical undergraduate degree is not required, but you should be comfortable collaborating with engineering on tough technical problems.

As a PM on the Windows Build team, you will be responsible for driving the Windows Build’s Recovery and the Pull Request developer experiences. You will work closely with the Group Program Manager to increase adoption of new, standardized experiences and will be the point-of-contact for engineers working on Windows across the company that rely on our services. You will develop and own a roadmap and balance competing priorities across the business. You will be the customer's voice when making key decisions and will actively engage and communicate with customers regularly.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to identifying customers’ multiple needs and market opportunities for enhancements or development of multiple feature areas.

• Identify patterns in the data and prioritizes problems.

• Build experiences across multiple feature areas to determine impact, foresee future opportunities, and provide research evidence to determine priorities.

• Help distill the vision into a product roadmapand drive business impact across the organization.

• Track metrics, identify future-oriented opportunities, and provideclarity on fundamentals of multiple features or feature areas.

• Provide thought leadership for questions and challenges from group managers and other leaders, while managing challenging feedback.

• Helpto define the feature set and partners with Design teams for desired functionality and product vision.

• Create and drive strategy for taking the feature sets to general availability.

• Develop, articulate, and present reasoning and tradeoffs involved in product deprecations.

• Build trust with a targeted selection of customers and capture feedback.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years’ experience in a role meeting with customers or representing customer needs within the business.

• 4+ years’ experience working on a technically challenging complex problem space requiring cross group or partner collaboration.

Other Requirements:

• Cloud Background check: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

• Basic knowledge of engineering systems including building, validating, and deploying software for Windows.

• Proven record of success with cross-team collaboration, working closely to find common goals, simplify the complex, and find novel solutions to tough problems.

• Experience creating functional specs that synthesize customer scenarios into clear concise requirements and defining success metrics.

• Self-driven and passionate developer advocate with communication skills and customer-oriented problem-solving abilities.

• Basic understanding of software supply chain concerns around Quality and Security.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 7, 2024.

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