Microsoft Principal Product Manager 

United States, Washington 

427524338

You will work with internal customers to learn their needs, use data and insights to drive decision making, develop product vision, partner with the software engineering leaders to develop product roadmaps and drive and own product launch. You will also own tracking Cusomer Satisfaction (CSAT) of your customers and continue to iterate on product vision and strategy to ensure the product is delivering excellence and customer satisfaction. Executive engagement and stakeholder management is critical to success in this role to ensure that we continue to iterate based on evolving business needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in end-to-end product strategy and program management preferably including AI-based products
• Experience leading product management teams and/or cross-org leadership experience

Other Requirements

• 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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• 2+ years of practical experience in AI techniques & tools, as evidenced by prior projects
• Functional understand and/or prior hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLM) such as OpenAI and others, Azure AI, Azure ML or their equivalent is highly preferred
• Proven success with product strategy and products for Microsoft Azure (internal or external facing)
• Experience with enterprise solutions and a deep technical understanding of software and hardware
• People Management Experience leading product management teams if we decide to grow a team under this role as the products expand in scope.
• Executive management skills and proven success in driven alignment for strategic priorities.
• Ability to think through measurable impact for the business and drive data-driven decision making
• Outstanding problem solving and conflict-resolution skills across a set of technical, product, and business challenges
• A high tolerance for ambiguity and change
• Demonstrated relationship building capabilities – this role has stakeholders across many organizations
• Effective communication skills with a broad range of audiences and ability to influence without authority
• Demonstrated presentation and evangelism capabilities.
• Customer focus and a deep commitment to delivering products that create customer value and delightful experiences

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 13, 2024.

The role involves collaborating closely across executive stakeholders on the Azure leadership team, multiple cross-org leaders as well as software engineering leaders. You are the lynchpin and the owner of the product vision and strategy.

• Understand the customer persona – who are we solving for? What are their needs
• Understand products – are there other products that compete with your product? What is the unique proposition for this product?
• Design product vision and strategy – What will this product deliver?
• Drive product requirements definition, product planning and product design (including writing PRDs) of new features and enhancements
• Own all stakeholder management - clearly communicate product benefits to our users and internal stakeholders and create feedback loops so that we can iterate effectively.
• Partner with the Azure CXP SWE leader to ensure that we have a clear plan for feature build and product roadmap stays on track
• Anticipate, identify, and mitigate blockers to customer success goals
• Work closely with the Data Science team to ensure we are tracking measurable impact of the product
• Share actionable insight, learnings, feedback to drive continuous improvements
  

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