Are you excited about empowering hundreds of thousands of developers with the best experience to build, deploy, and scale their applications? Do you love working with the developer community? 

Azure App Service is a fully managed web hosting service for building web applications, services, and RESTful APIs. We are looking for a seasoned product manager to drive the strategy for increasing adoption and retention of Azure App Service across the Linux developer community building apps on languages/frameworks such as Node.js, Python, Java .NET and PHP. 

Developer Division, part of Cloud + AI Group, is focused on making Azure the cloud of choice for any developer building any app on any platform by creating a friction-free, delightful developer experience. The IDEs, languages, frameworks, platforms, and tools we build are used by Fortune 500 companies as well as startups to run their mission critical applications on Azure. 

We are a fast-paced team and build our products in close collaboration with our customers by continuously learning from them. We love to experiment and push the boundaries of what is possible today. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you will grow and have fun, please join us! 

Responsibilities

In this role you will: 

• Engage closely with customers and translate their unarticulated and unmet needs into actionable requirements. 

• Partner closely with various stakeholders to design solutions rapidly through experimentation and direct customer validation. 
• Analyze competition and market trends to build a coherent strategy for growing the App Service business. 
• Define the success metrics, communicate them clearly, measure them and use them to iteratively improve the services. 
• Collaborate with the marketing team to build the go-to-market strategy and drive adoption. 
• Create quality customer-facing product documentation, tutorials, and usage examples. 

Traits we look for in product managers: 

• Humility and a growth mindset. The courage to say, â€œI don’t know, yet” and an appetite to keep learning 
• Maniacal customer obsession with an unforgiving attention to detail and quality. 
• Active listening to understand 
• Clarity in communication without ambiguity across all formats – written, verbal and visual 

• Ability to retrospect and reflect 
• Break down complex ideas and explain them simply 

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in program management or product management shipping enterprise products in the software industry. Experience building large scale cloud services is a plus. 
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or similar discipline, or equivalent industry experience. An MBA is a bonus. 

• Experience working on developer tools and engaging with developer communities. If you are hands on and write code to build and tinker, that is a bonus. 
• Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for solving complex business problems. 
• Working knowledge of performing market analysis, competitive teardowns, and customer research to validate project priorities and direction. 

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

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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