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Responsibilities
Define the strategic roadmap for our platform initiatives, aligning them with the overall business and product goals.
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize key platform features and enhancements
Define project scopes, goals, and deliverables, and ensure they are effectively communicated to the team members and stakeholders.
Drive the execution of multiple complex projects simultaneously, while ensuring adherence to quality standards and timelines.
Work closely with engineering, data science, and product teams to define technical requirements and ensure alignment between platform capabilities and business needs.
Serve as a point of contact for internal stakeholders, addressing their concerns, providing regular updates, and managing expectations.
Demonstrate deep technical knowledge and understanding of the platform, algorithms, and infrastructure needed for the product.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years people management experience.
- Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years people management experience.
- 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
- 8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
- 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g.,. competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
- Shipped large scale enterprise software products.
- Demonstrated ability to directly manage a team of PMs and Lead PMs to achieve results, strategic thinking and grow careers.
- Ability to innovate at a platform level and drive integrated, end-to-end solutions through the shipping process.
- Great Cross Divisional Relationship building skills and ability to collaborate with partners, ability to pull together technology and expertise across M365, Windows and Azure, to drive clarity across teams, agree on dependencies and common goals, and establish long lasting, trusted relationship with partner teams.
- Great problem-solving skills and outstanding drive for results; ability to drive clarity, communicate goals to key stakeholders, and motivate them to execute on time and at a high quality.
- Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems, proposes solutions, and drives a team to address them.
Product Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- 3+ years people management experience
- Demonstrated deep technical knowledge of platform, algorithms, and infrastructure
- 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development or equivalent experience
- 5+ years people management experience
- 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market
- 8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market
- 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience
- Shipped large scale enterprise software products
- Demonstrated ability to directly manage a team of PMs and Lead PMs to achieve results and grow careers
- Ability to innovate at a platform level and drive integrated, end-to-end solutions
- Cross-divisional relationship building and collaboration across M365, Windows, and Azure
- Strong problem-solving skills and drive for results; ability to align stakeholders and deliver on time
- Self-starter who proactively identifies problems and drives solutions
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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