Principal Product Manager - Microsoft

We are experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime change in work patterns, and there is no going back to 2019. Hybrid work is just work. Empowering today’s connected, distributed workforce requires technology that makes work easier and more flexible. Virtual and hybrid meetings continue to take up the lion’s share of time spent at work. Built on the familiar all-in-one collaboration experience, at Microsoft Ignite 2022, we announced more personalized, intelligent, and secure Teams that allows anyone to meet better and get the work done. We are calling it Teams Premium – more here: https://aka.ms/TeamsPremiumBlog

This new offering is just scratchingthe surface for all the value we aim to provide to Microsoft Teams in the coming years. And to take Teams Premium to the next level and beyond, we are looking to onboard a strong Principal Product Manager who can help us build the strategy, product, and deliver value on the vision of better way to meet. 

We’d love to talk to you if you’ve got a strong background in building product strategy and monetizable value for our enterprise customers.  

You must be experienced and skilled in fast paced execution to help deliver our vision of bringing premium value in Microsoft Teams to the customers. You are someone who 

• has strong conviction and focus on customer needs
• creatively applies technology to solve complex problems
• thrives in a bit of chaos then creates the process needed to execute smoothly at scale to deliver impact and results 
• drives impactful change through metrics and data

• can inspire teams across the company to work together towards common goals

You will be responsible to create a roadmap of Teams Premium product spanning across all three pillars of personalized,intelligent and secure and even beyond. As Principal Product Manager, you’ll be working with Marketing, Business Planning to drive market research, find product market fit for the value, and directly with our lighthouse customers to validate the hypothesis and the need of the premium value. You’ll also work multiplegroups within Microsoft to own and define the roadmap for Teams Premium. 

Our culture is inclusive, customer-driven, and high energy; our engineers come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and loyal to coworkers and our products, and grounded in our customer and business needs. Our team has a strong sense of artisanship and accountability and provides its members many opportunities for learning and career growth.

• Research, define and prioritize the investments we should make for Teams Premium in the three value pillars of personalized, intelligent, and secure and even beyond. 
• Develop a clear product roadmap balancing business, technical, and experience considerations
• As the product owner, virtually lead the many contributing marketing, business planning, engineering, research, and design teams to ensure successful execution of scope, schedule, and cost.

• Present the plans, roadmap and execution updates to Microsoft CVPs in regular ROBs
• Ability to travel to Prague, Czech Republic or China periodically (where permitted)

Successful candidates need to exhibit these attributes that will enhance their ability to succeed in this role:

• Strong background and experience in product building, product strategy and monetization 
• Desire to succeed and motivate engineers and designers through inspirational leadership
• Demonstrates both strong vision, strategy, and big picture capabilities in problem solving approaches
• Ability to consider upstream and downstream process impacts and implications
• Ability to establish and manage priorities in a high pace environment

• Proven ability to execute swiftly without compromising experience
• Versatility and willingness to work with constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm
• Comfortable to work with c-level executives internally and from some of the largest companies in the world
• Ensure appropriate and effective communication flow among internal and external stakeholders

Required Qualification: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or business. MBA preferred. 
• 8+ years of relevant experience shipping enterprise grade solutions.

This team supports our employees in all locations around the country. This position can be 100% remote. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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