At Mojang Studios, the creators of Minecraft, we are on a mission to build a better world through the power of play.

Why play? Well, play is at the heart of everything we do. It’s the blocky backbone of our games, the core of our development philosophy, and even the origin of our name. From the relentless experimentation of our endlessly inspiring community to the classrooms where Minecraft has become an essential teaching tool, play is the bedrock of our existence.

We enable millions to create and play together, connect people across the globe, and foster a community that is among the most active and passionate in the world. Our community is global and incredibly diverse. When we are developing anything within our franchise, we keep this in mind. We want everyone to not only feel included in Minecraft, but also to see themselves in what we make. Our goal is for the Mojang Studios team to be as diverse as our community.

The Minecraft team is looking for a Senior Product Manager Lead to lead the planning, delivery, and reporting efforts of our Engineering Systems Team.

This team creates and supports build and test automation pipelines spanning 15+ platforms and a range of game titles, services, and other franchise deliverables; and is responsible for protecting the quality of the game performance and localization through tests, tooling, and telemetry monitoring. Everything we do leverages cloud services such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, dozens of Azure resources.

You are passionate about end-to-end build infrastructure, devops best practices, and internal developer productivity – from build systems, to test automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines – that are fast, reliable, maintainable and a joy to use. You thrive on providing great customer service and creating a supportive environment for the internal Mojang development teams. You love using your technical background to bring clarity and understanding to complex technology projects, and can effectively communicate the work, timelines, and risks to any audience. Your passion for telemetry and data-driven decision-making helps raise the quality of the product and improve internal developer satisfaction.

As a motivated and experienced leader, you are constantly looking to evolve our vision, service quality and roadmap, processes, documentation, and communication. Your technical acumen and attention to detail enables you to identify risks, drive development with predictability, and challenge how we work to continuously improve. Relationships and teamwork are important to how you inspire and lead teams to deliver their best work.

Your role will be to collaborate across the organization, understand and communicate requirements and information efficiently and effectively, present to senior leadership and the broader studio, and develop relationships that lead to efficient problem solving. The ability to track multiple release activities simultaneously will be key.

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 the end, it’s the people of Mojang Studios that make this place truly special. When you join, you’ll find yourself in the company of incredibly bright, warm, and creative individuals – all united and working toward a single goal. Come help us reach it!

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of Product Managers andProducers. 

• Partner with leadership to establish clear, measurable goals for your teams and greater organization while managing delivery through all phases of development. 

• Work across Mojang Studios with key stakeholders to track technology initiatives, interpret requirements, and build well-scoped and incremental plans that feed our technology roadmap.  

• Own clear, clean, and quantitative reporting up to leadership to provide visibility for timely delivery or highlight areas of risk. 

• Resolve issues regardless of team boundaries; drive for high-quality code through metrics and optimizing engineering workflows.

• Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ year(s) people management experience.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

• Experience working with both engineering and support teams. 

• Experience running multiple or larger teams using both Office Suite as well as project management software (Jira, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, GitHub, Hansoft, Asana etc.). 

• Experience withdata analytics and reporting systems (PowerBI,Tableau, Azure Data Explorer,etc.)

• Understands all aspects of production methodologies, project management, and has organizational and communication skills.

Product Management M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 23, 2024.

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