Overview  

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s global workforce sound exciting to you?  Are you passionate about the future of work, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation?  If so, Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is an excellent place for you to grow your career. 

Microsoft Digital (MSD)’s mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world.  Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft’s Data Platform & Growth (DPG) organization and Experiences & Devices (E+D) division. Microsoft Digital (MSD), is the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft’s employee experience, human resources, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft’s internal network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. You will leverage the latest technologies and focus on empowering Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.  

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Job Purpose  

We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager for the team. If you are passionate about solving complex issues keeping your customers at the center of it, then this job is for you.  

To succeed in this role, you should have a strong technical background and analytical skills, with the ability to work directly with both customer and engineering teams across the company. You should be able to formulate a vision and strategic plan whilst creating clarity in requirements, demonstrating customer-obsession with a growth mindset. You should be comfortable talking about technical components, understand development cycles but at the same time hold onto the business need and impact. Excellent collaboration, communication, value-driven decision making and coordination skills are necessary for this role. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Ability to learn, collect, examine, prioritize customer scenarios, product requirements, feedback, and help to set the OKRs, feature improvements, user stories, functional specification through semester planning to ensure better product and customer and engineering outcomes.

• Have a hands-on approach to writing developer specs and participate in design reviews. 

• Create clarity in requirements, embrace agility, fend off scope creep, confirm development approaches and timelines, and support the team to build and deliver high quality and secure solutions on time. 

• Promote hypothesis-driven product development and data-driven decision making. 

• Define and analyze metrics to assess the success of products and communicate with all stakeholders. 

• Engage directly with internal customers and partners to integrate feedback and extrapolate customer benefit for improved product plans. 

• Collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end systems and experiences wherever required.

• Be a mentor to other Product Managers in our team. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications  

• A Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science or in a related discipline, or equivalent in real-world experience.

• 12+ years of relevant experience delivering enterprise applications as a Program Manager/Product Manager out of total working experience.

• Ability to create structure from abstract ideas, take initial concepts to maturity.

• Solid understanding of consumer web and mobile technologies, bots, engineering platform at scale and the ability to hold technical discussions, go deep in technical areas

• Have a sense of pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, completeness, and resulting user experience.

• Strong track record of not only individual excellence, but a demonstrated commitment to making others around them great.

• Outstanding cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration skills.

• Agile software development experience.

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

   

Non-Technical skills  

• Problem solving - Ability to clearly understand problems, decompose them into smaller problems; and technical articulation skills so that it is easy for the team to collectively solve.  

• Ability to work both independently and collectively in a fun team environment with minimal supervision. 

• Good communication and stakeholder management skills 

• High capacity to learn and adapt to new technologies and engineering processes quickly.   

   

*Location: * We are hiring in the following locations: Hyderabad, India.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .