Senior Product Manager - Microsoft

Join us as we take Microsoft Teams, our fast-growing collaboration product to the next level. We are looking for a passionate product manager to define and deliver new ways to connect people, improve communication, and facilitate collaboration across a diverse set of user segments.

This position offers the opportunity to work on the core communications team focusing on the messaging experience. Are you passionate about solving new and complex problems around collaboration? How to create a unique experience to compose messages for chats and channels? You will be responsible for defining feature roadmaps, design, and ship features with high quality, measuring success, and using data insights to inform future plans. This role requires a mix of product thinking, technical depth, user-centric design, cross-team collaboration, and external customer engagement.

What’s it like to work on Microsoft Teams? We thrive in a fast-moving environment that lets us quickly explore, iterate, and deliver value to our customers. Our colleagues are among the best in the industry and share a passion for delivering an amazing product. We’re also a team that values diversity of opinions, likes to have fun and continually learn, and we build that attitude into how we work together and what we create.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand business goals and user needs, collect requirements, and synthesize product plans to deliver maximum impact
• Deliver end-to-end product, including competitive research, requirements definition, user experience, and delivery
• Validate and improve product over time through measurement and experimentation
• Engage with customers and internal preview users, and triage, prioritize, and address customer feedback for your area
• Regularly present new product plans, strategy, demos, competitive reviews, and more to the leadership team
• Manage dependencies across teams to ensure features solve customer needs cohesively

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of product management experience delivering end-user facing products and services
• Experience across the entire product lifecycle – from product inception to ship and the know-how required to lead your crew to realize your vision.
• Strong affinity and experience in user-centered design, UX design and innovating on behalf of the customer

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Ability to wear many hats and learn quickly, and the collaborative leadership skills to lead a change in direction when needed.
• Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing startup environment. Self-starters and innovators with a positive, collaborative can-do attitude and bias for action are required.
• Strong ability to influence others and experience with leading cross team product designs without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical
• Understanding of web and mobile technologies
• Great problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically and analytically to define and track success metrics for your areas

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. 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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