Principal Product Manager - Microsoft

Azure Data Services is the Microsoft organization that delivers industry-leading, intelligent, cloud services that span 36 regions across the world.  Some of best-known products are SQL Database, Azure Purview, Azure Synapse, CosmosDB, Power BI, HDInsight, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Databricks, SQL Datawarehouse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics, Cognitive Search, Azure Purview and Azure Synapse Analytics. We are meeting the stringent needs of mission-critical applications run by our most demanding customers. The scale of the challenge is enormous; we have millions of databases serving billions of requests, over exabytes of storage, across most of the world. If you want to be part of one of the biggest data projects in the world, if you enjoy being customer-focused and enjoy problems of data analysis and thoughtful approaches to problem solving, join us. 

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The Azure Database Platform team is seeking an experienced and customer-focused Product Manager with experience working in or with SaaS ISVs to help drive the next generation database platform to better support this unique customer segment.  The database platform is seeking to tailor capabilities to the needs of both cloud native and modernizing applications in the SaaS space, looking particularly to solve their unique problems in the area of scale, observability, tenancy models, isolation, COGS management, security, compliance, and platform usability. 

As a senior member of this team, you will be working closely with customers and with engineering to document detailed requirements and drive execution toward rapid releases with a lean startup mind when it comes to experimentation and learning.

In the course of a given week you can expect to:

• Leadproduct definition of a completely new service on Azure targeted towards application developers and to simply the database experience. 

• Participate in design and delivery in collaboration with design, engineering, and your peers in product management
• Maintain a robust understanding of the SaaS ISV space, including competitive offerings
• Engage with and deeply understand the platform requirements of high scale customers and translate these needs into the technical requirements for a first class public cloud offering
• Work across a number of database platforms including SQL, Cosmos, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, engaging in conversations with customers and stakeholders at all levels
• Bring clarity to product prioritization and strategy discussions and collaborate across teams to build consensus

• Analyze product telemetry and survey data to provide insights to the product team 
• Drive growth hacking initiatives both as an individual and as a leader, teaching others to think in a data driven manner 

We are looking for candidates who: 

• Are passionate about contributing to a healthy, inclusive, and respectful culture within the team 
• Have a sincere interest in improving the experience for users of all backgrounds and abilities 

• Are interested in the inner workings of the database platform and how improvements to offerings at every level can accrue to the needs of commercial customers
• Feel comfortable working on a highly technical product 
• Have the ability to work with engineering teams to design and deliver capabilities using agile methodologies 
• Bring a growth mindset, feeling excited and empowered by the notion of learning quickly in a fast moving yet supportive environment 
• Will drive customer feedback and requirements back into our platform, effectively advocating in order to push our platform forward  

Required Qualifications 

• 8years experience and familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases and their use cases
• 4 year experience delivering services and/or shipping products in a commercial SaaS software setting in a product, operational, or engineering role
• 4years experience as a product manager working on projects that include cross team collaboration
• Outstanding written, verbal, and visual communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences

• Good understanding of contemporary database operational and security considerations

Preferred Qualifications 

• Ability to translate business requirements and scenarios into products and services, ability to deliver results in an environment of ambiguity 
• Stellar cross group collaboration, able to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large organization and deliver results that depend on other divisions and external partners 

• Ability to work independently in highly ambiguous environments, with both technical and business groups internally and externally Ability to prioritize work according to both customer value and business objective 

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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