Product Manager

Overview

Microsoft Digital (MSD) builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager for the team. If you are passionate about solving complex issues keeping your customers at the center of it, then this job is for you.

To succeed in this role, you should have a strong technical background and analytical skills, with the ability to work directly with both customer and engineering teams across the company. You should be able to formulate a vision and strategic plan whilst creating clarity in requirements, demonstrating customer-obsession with a growth mindset. You should be comfortable talking about technical components, understand development cycles but at the same time hold onto the business need and impact. Excellent collaboration, communication, value-driven decision making and coordination skills are necessary for this role.

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.

Responsibilities

• You will have the ability to learn, collect, examine, prioritize customer scenarios, product requirements, feedback, and help to set the OKRs, feature improvements, user stories, functional specifications through semester planning to ensure better product and customer and engineering outcomes.
• You will have a hands-on approach to writing developer specs and participate in design reviews.
• You will create clarity in requirements, embrace agility, fend off scope creep, confirm development approaches and timelines, and support the team to build and deliver high quality and secure solutions on time.
• You will promote hypothesis-driven product development and data-driven decision making.
• You will define and analyze metrics to assess the success of products and communicate with all stakeholders.
• You will engage directly with internal customers and partners to integrate feedback and extrapolate customer benefit for improved product plans.
• You will collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end systems and experiences wherever required.
• You will be a mentor to other Product Managers in our team.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree
• OR equivalent experience.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science or in a related discipline, or equivalent in real-world experience.
• 1+ years of relevant experience delivering enterprise applications as a Program Manager/Product Manager out of total working experience.
• Ability to create structure from abstract ideas, take initial concepts to maturity.
• Solid understanding of consumer web and mobile technologies, bots, engineering platform at scale and the ability to hold technical discussions, go deep in technical areas
• Have a sense of pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, completeness, and resulting user experience.
• Strong track record of not only individual excellence, but a demonstrated commitment to making others around them great.
• Outstanding cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Agile software development experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical
  
  

Non-Technical Skills

• Problem solving - Ability to clearly understand problems, decompose them into smaller problems; and technical articulation skills so that it is easy for the team to collectively solve.
• Ability to work both independently and collectively in a fun team environment with minimal supervision.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills
• High capacity to learn and adapt to new technologies and engineering processes quickly.  
  
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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