Are you looking for an exciting and unique opportunity to work at the forefront of Office innovation? The Office NUI (Natural User Interface) team is changing how people interact with technology, by delivering groundbreaking voice, pen and ink, and touch capabilities to the hundreds of millions of people that use Office every day. 

Our team continues to grow and increase its charter, and in this role you will coordinate and drive investments spanning all of M365 to deliver best-in-class everyday pen and ink capabilities to our customers to help them unleash their creativity and collaborate more effectively, while providing pull to Windows tablets. This is a high-profile investment area that leverages next-generation technologies, intelligent services, and partnerships with teams across the company

About the Team 

The NUI team sits at the nexus of Office, Windows and Surface, designing features and functionality that create Microsoft-wide value. Our team drives voice, pen and ink, and touch investments for Office, building intuitive and natural experiences into Teams + Whiteboard, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and more to help people be productive no matter where they are. We also coordinate features across Office endpoints (Web, Windows, Android, Mac and iOS) and device types (desktop, tablet and phone). 

We strive to be thought leaders, customer advocates and focused on high-value deliverables, and as a result our projects receive strong customer feedback, media attention and executive recognition. We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work, encourage a fun and inclusive environment through activities like going out to lunch together every week (virtually for now), and believe that a diverse set of perspectives is required to build new ways of working that are effective for everyone. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

• Coordinate all investment in the space, including within our own cross-geo team and in partnership with Windows and Surface 
• Gather customer requirements using customer feedback channels and product data 
• Land designs to drive key innovations into Office, balancing customer needs, technical requirements, and timelines 
• Validate customer scenarios and proposed designs, leveraging appropriate customer channels 
• Work across several engineering teams to deliver high-quality and on-time releases 

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Qualifications

Skills & Qualifications 

• 6+ years of product management experience 
• Proven ability to coordinate and lead complex projects with a diverse set of stakeholders from ideation to production 
• Demonstrated passion for customer-centric designs and customer validation, including experience gathering requirements from customers 

• Effective communication skills, with the ability to flow between technical and experience-led conversations with diverse stakeholders across multiple teams and orgs 
• Deep commitment to achieving high user and business partner satisfaction, influencing decisions for the right solutions and balancing priorities across customer, business and technical needs 

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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