The rapid growth of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power BI), is fueled by organizations across the globe investing in leveraging low-code/no-code development models to accelerate their digital transformation ambitions. Power Platform is a strategic new growth area for Microsoft, but more importantly, it is a disruptor technology that is giving “Citizen access” to broader set of users in an enterprise, to create next generation of business productivity software via radically simplified experience and without requiring extensive and costly training. It is transforming careers of ‘citizen developers’, making pro-developers far more productive and helping IT finally innovate at the pace that their businesses expect. To boost Power Platform to scale to millions of 'citizen developers', we are investing in Power Portals – an early emergent-stage product within Power Platform suite currently used by customers to enable collaboration with users both internal and external to their organizations. We are early in our journey to innovate on Portals product, integrate with other Power products (PBI, PVA, etc.) and shape it into a thriving standalone customer-facing business to drive incremental revenue and value for Power Platform.

The Power Portals team is looking for a strong and experienced program manager who will obsess about a focused end-to-end product experience, grow the technical capabilities of the product, and build a community of customer fans, while taking it from its early emergent stage to a thriving business and drive wide-scale adoption of the Power Platform within some of the biggest companies in the world. Key attributes we look for in candidates:

• Customer-obsessed with the focus to cut through the noise and build what our customers need and not always what they want.
• Qualitatively and quantitatively data-driven
• You love to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.
• You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better
• You get stuff done. You feel great when you're delivering something substantive and meaningful to actual customers.
• Hungry to succeed i.e., you should be willing to take risks, fail fast (if needed) and try again

In this role, you will be driving features that increase the intrinsic value of the portal platform and enable scenarios for customers out-of-box.  Some examples of such features include -

• Product capabilities that create new and enhance existing end user experiences on portals
• Integration with other products in the Power Platform, Office, and Azure
• Improve administration and governance of portals by creating experiences and toolkits that help customers get started quickly with developing a strategy for adopting and supporting portals within their organization.

You will be working closely data scientists, PMs, Engineers, internal and external partners across Power Platform, Dynamics, Business Application Group Solutions and Azure. You need to be able to drive successful collaboration across disciplines and various groups while maintaining a focus on partner and customer requirements for a world-class product experience. 

Responsibilities

• Planning: Own the features from start to finish. Contribute to team strategy, utilizing customer insights to influence roadmap and feature plan.
• Design: Partner closely with researchers and designers to deliver UX storyboards for envisioning and high-quality specs that meet business and customer requirements.
• Execution: Define a feature plan and work with engineering to deliver plan.
• Product success: Drive features and initiatives to grow users and engagement. Track awareness, engagement, and user retention to inform future investments. 
• Customer obsession: Connect directly with customers through EBCs, conferences, and champion key customer partnerships for the Power Platform.  Learn from customer feedback, adapt quickly, and ship features that customer love.
• Leadership and team culture: Keep the team and leadership abreast of progress and roadblocks, looking around corners, and thinking long term. Foster an inclusive work environment and create accountability for positive team collaboration. 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Product/Program Management or relevant experience leading an end-user facing product.
• Working on and shipping products at scale with good customer/user reviews 
• Strong background in cloud and enterprise services or applications - part of your role will be building experiences that can connect to and integrate with a variety of Microsoft services and products.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically, with a strong bias for action.
• The ability to wear many hats, learn quickly and change direction when needed.
• Proven track record of developing products in an agile development environment across several teams.
• Strong program management, communication, and cross-group collaboration skills
• Self-starter who is constantly curious and looking for ways to improve the product and team efficiencies.
• A learner who can quickly grasp the functional breadth and understand the overall technical architecture of portal platform to be able to drive conversations with various stakeholders.
• BS or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical experience

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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