Are you looking to join Microsoft’s fastest growing business? Does rolling up your sleeves to understand customer challenges and identifying their needs seem second nature to you? We have a compelling opportunity for you to consider.

Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. Azure differentiates itself as the only hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud with a true hybrid story. Customers and analysts recognize Azure’s tremendous momentum which continues month over month. To help customers achieve their goals and host all their workloads on the cloud, Azure uses a globally available foundational platform with the scale of the largest of largest services. Workloads range from “new born-in-the-cloud” services to “traditional” applications migrated from physical datacenters. All the rich platform services and capabilities of Microsoft's commercial cloud are built on this platform.

Azure Core team at IDC (India Development Center) delivers mission-critical infrastructure and management capabilities to customers across the globe which cut across Compute, Storage, Networking and Management. We are defining, and ultimately delivering quality customer experiences and solutions that power the world’s workloads.

In the era of ever-increasing cyber threats and dependencies, data protection is key for enterprises to run their production workloads on the cloud. Azure Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) services are on a mission to provide customers with assured protection for all their workloads (VMs, Databases, Containers, File Servers, Storage Services Data), running on any cloud (on-premises, edge, and Azure Cloud) and Hypervisors/Containers. Our data protection platform goes beyond just backups and disaster recovery to provide fit-for-purpose experiences for customers to manage threats like ransomware. Determining a scalable model for protection and allowing consistent management across all clouds is the key.

As a Product Management Specialist in Azure BCDR, you will help the team conduct customer research, compete benchmarking, and write specs for features that drive product adoption and success. This role gives you the opportunity to develop deep business acumen, hone your skills to understand customer needs, pitch ideas in a structured way and deliver value to the customers through new features and experience improvements.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• You will develop the ability to define a feature and will assist others in facilitating usability reviews with customers.

• You’ll understand how your own feature integrates with the general roadmap, and will coordinate with others to identify problems through scenario walkthroughs.

• You will learn to understand one or more success criteria of a feature. You’ll also help identify short-term investment opportunities and help engage partner support for a feature.

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

• You will works across all stages of product lifecycle from product definition, planning, release, modifications, maintenance, and feature deprecation.

• You will assist Product Managers by helping build marketing, roll-out plans, and customer support plans. You’ll also promote the feature you worked on and present at small events.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management

• OR software development

• OR eqivalent experience.

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