Microsoft365 Core platform team is a global engineering team pursuing Microsoft's mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, by building deep intelligence in the products to help find the most relevant information, instantly, contextually, and more naturally that millions of people rely on for work and life every day to accomplish their goals.   

You will work independently and collaboratively with other product teams across Microsoft to build end-to-end rich Search experiences with rich meta data extraction, semantic document understanding, building efficient and effective search index etc. You will formalize vision and frame roadmaps and feature specifications that leverage the vast expanse of data in M365 to enable contextual, personalized & intelligent productivity scenarios for the enterprise users. You will use your passion for collaboration to partner with global Product Engineering teams to inform planning and prioritization of products and features.

Successful manager of Product Managers are great at building strong teams, establishing relationship with partners and stakeholders, networking, thrive working in ambiguity, are passionate about working with the latest and cutting-edge technology, have strong product engineering backgrounds, and are driven to deliver high impact. To be successful, you'll need to demonstrate product management skills in bringing new products to market, with a customer first mindset to deliver experiences, designs, and services to help customers to understand their product and search needs in achieving their business goals.

Responsibilities

In this role you will wear many hats including driving the definition and delivery of a world class workplace search experience for and IT administrators. This includes but is not limited to:

• Identify, define, and communicate strategy, vision and mission for the team and ensure team is motivated to deliver new feature ideas, create scenarios that satisfy customer needs, accrue business outcomes and drive future product investments.
• Establish a great partnership within the triad that includes Design, Development and Product management and ensures the triad is aligned for the experiences we build across the product to deliver on the customer promise of cohesiveness. Create clarity for the triad.
• Motivate and guide the team to collect and synthesize customer feedback, translate into feature/product requirements, influence other teams drive with the engineering team and influence biz planning on GTM plan.
• Be the customer advocate - present & validate new products and features to customers, assist with onboarding.
• Work with business planning and marketing teams and find opportunities for growth and revenue for Microsoft Search.
• Influence scalable solutions that can be applied as a framework for solving multiple scenarios across different partners and customer topologies.
• Be the evangelist - participate in enterprise conferences and industry events.
• Establish great relationships internally with partners/stakeholders within Microsoft, and externally with global customers/partners

Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role is a talented and experienced Product Manager with:

• 12+ years of experience in product management or software engineering leadership.
• Strong acumen to build and grow people who can perform as world class teams
• Strong leadership, effective communication skills, great team and cross group collaboration skills
• Proven track record of delivering large scale enterprise solutions and services with huge business impact and customer first mindset.
• Familiarity and/or experience in building solutions for IT Admin and user experiences
• Strong technical acumen to drive design and architecture discussions with engineering teams focusing on end-to-end scenarios.
• Excellent ability to effectively define product, and functional specifications with strong definition of customer value and business impact while understanding the technical aspects.
• Excellent analytical, presentation, negotiation, and story-telling skills, and strong communication skills – verbal and writing.
• Strong ability to drive cross-functional teams, partners, and cross-org leadership teams.
• Experience working efficiently with internationally distributed development teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and drive for results.

Preferred qualifications, but not required:

• Good understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, cloud technologies and developer platforms.
• Experience building search, user & intent understanding, or informational retrieval systems
• Experience with business planning & monetization strategies
• MBA and/or a graduate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

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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