Are you interested in working on large scale cloud service platforms built on Kubernetes where your customers are a large and diverse set of Microsoft 365 product teams, running some of the largest workloads in Microsoft? If so, come be a part of the Microsoft 365 Core Product Management team.

Our team’s goal is to make Microsoft 365 the most secure, efficient and scalable service in the world. As part of that, we create managed platforms that allow Microsoft 365 engineering teams develop and release new services to their customers.

As an experienced and technical Product Manager, you will drive strategy and roadmap for Kubernetes based infrastructure platform, with a focus on enabling Linux workloads and partnering closely with engineering teams to build and deliver world class software systems at scale.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

The work in this role is wide-ranging and will involve:

• Driving growth strategy and roadmap for the product.

• Evangelizing the product to new customers across Microsoft.

• Working with diverse stakeholders to clarify product requirements, including platform owners, a diverse set of customer engineering teams, and compliance auditors.

• Working with Microsoft 365 and Azure teams to drive new features and ensuring business continuity for all customers on this platform.

• Managing the backlog and priority for your feature areas, ensuring features land on time, and with high quality.

• Deliveringan enterprise grade platform to the customers, across various clouds following GTM strategies.

• Establish a network of partnerships with technical leaders across the company. 

• Embody our Culture  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) .

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or Containers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.

• Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in ambiguous situations as you work to bring clarity to those around you.

• Individuals with a positive, collaborative, can-do attitude and bias for action.

• Cultural activators, who place a high priority on a healthy team culture and contribute to that culture themselves.

• Critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, a strong history of solving complex problems and the ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.

• Understanding or experience with buildingsoftware platforms and of the software development process.

• Empathy for developers and working backwards from customers.

• Design thinking, structured problem solving, data driven decision making and strong analytical skills.

• Track record of going technically deep and quickly ramping up on new technologies.

• Ability to build vision and roadmap for complex areas.

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.

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