Microsoft Principal Product Manager 

United States, Washington 

270016232

What if your job description were simply - “Make tomorrow better”?

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/program management
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of Product Management experience working on user facing products, spanning product leadership, product discovery, user research, competitive analysis, planning, execution, data-driven product iterations, and demonstrated product sense and collaboration skills

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years of experience in product/program management
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Product Management experience working on consumer products and/or Version 1 (v1) products

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 1, 2024.

The candidate would include traits/skills such as, but not limited to:

• Thought leadership, along with crafting and communicating vision, strategy, roadmap
• Customer focus, i.e.  understand customer needs and competitive landscape, to achieve the best outcomes for the customer.
• Demonstrated product sense
• Passion and skills related to designing customer facing UX, AI powered products, and data visualizations
• Ability to work through ambiguity and bring clarity across teams
• Ability to influence product and process transformation across organizational boundaries
• Adapt plans considering external and internal landscape changes
• Independently anticipate and identify complex problems
• Critical thinking & creative problem-solving, i.e. not take things at face value and provide thoughtful solutions
• Open-mindedness, i.e. growth mindset vs. fixed mindset
• Diverse and inclusive cross-team collaboration, i.e. not operating in silos, active listening and inviting diverse perspectives, focusing on shared success
• Organizational and analytical skills, with technical abilities
• Proven written and oral communication skills
• Data-driven decision-making, i.e. understanding the data and using it thoughtfully
• Self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Evangelize and generate excitement around work
• Proven track record in ideation through release of multiple successful user facing experiences in the consumer space, and applying growth approaches to grow the product exponentially
• Experience working on innovation products and thriving in the incubation and growth phase
• Experience software development in an online/web services environment