Serverless containers have redefined the way business deploy and manage their applications at scale. The Azure Container instances team innovates across all elements of cloud computing stack to deliver the simplest and fastest serverless containers service. In addition to powering customer applications, Azure Container instances service also forms the bedrock for many of Azure’s own serverless experiences.

As a Product Manager in the Azure Container Instances team, you will define the product roadmap, and go-to-market plans to accelerate adoption of serverless containers. You will partner with teams across Azure Compute, Storage, and Networking to ensure that the Azure Container Instances service meets the performance and scale requirements of a variety of serverless workloads. This opportunity will allow you to build a deeper understanding of inner workings of Azure and serverless architecture. It will also allow you to collaborate with marketing, finance, and economics teams to learn more about the serverless containers business. This is a flexible work opportunity allowing selected candidates to fully work from home.

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Responsibilities

• You will drive and track success criteria of a feature group. You’ll also partner with others to identify short-term investment opportunities and collaborate with partners to garner support for that feature group.

• You will demonstrate ability to define a feature set and will facilitate usability reviews with customers. You’ll start to own a portion of the roadmap for a feature group, and will organize scenario walkthroughs to identify problems.

• You will partner with Product Marketing teams by helping build marketing, roll-out, and customer support plans. You’ll also promote the group of features you worked on and co-present at large events.

• You will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses to incrementally improve product development in specific areas. You’ll also begin to manage customer communities and build trust with targeted customers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with Container Technologies (eg Docker, Kubernetes)/Serverless Cloud Services (eg Functions as a Service).

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing large projects, driving concensus among large number of varied stakeholders

• Strong written and verbal communication skills along with experience in driving product reviews, presentations to org leader.

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