Principal Product Manager_

Redmond

Azure Solutions and Ecosystems is at the forefront of delivering the industry’s best innovative solutions and platform to migrate our customers to the Cloud. We work closely with industry technology leaders such as VMware, Oracle, SAP or EPIC, across hardware, software, services and our 1st and 3rd party partners to ensure Azure is the best cloud to support our customers growth and innovation.

Are you passionate about bringing customers to the Cloud and help them transform their business through technology? We are building the products and offers in Azure that allow customers to bring their workloads and estates and consume cloud without compromises on performance and capability across their hybrid platform. In this specific role, you will work as part of the Azure VMware Solution team (AVS) that specializes in building the solution that brings VMware estates to the Azure cloud.

The AVS team is looking for a Principal Product Manager who has a proven track record of managing a complex product portfolio and defining products across hardware and experiences. The successful candidate will build a compelling customer-centric vision for the future of the AVS service, drive the product management aspects driving its growth and adoption and galvanize teams to execute across engineering, infrastructure, marketing, and sales disciplines.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will balance our in-market product health and performance with the development of our long-term product vision and roadmap. You will own both the roadmap and product for our business. You will carry the product roadmap from concept to prototype to implementation. In this specific role, you will also be responsible to support our largest high-value customers with architecture design and work across AS&E products to build integration between our solutions (Ex: AVS and Oracle integration). Candidates will have a solid track record of managing and shipping products in a leading edge, evolving, and ambiguous environment. Expectations include effective written and oral communication skills, great cross-functional project management capabilities, and experience at the forefront of technology.

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**

+ Be at the heart of defining, organizing, and driving our overall strategy for current and future Azure solutions and ecosystems.

+ Work with Azure best technology partners to offer up their value to Azure customers.

+ Work across Azure Core to integrate advanced technologies to define our products and manage a roadmap.

+ Drive a culture of innovation and experimentation throughout the team. You will have the opportunity to work inside and outside Microsoft to develop solutions that bring our partner’s technology to the Azure cloud. This will require deep product management knowledge as well as technical program management for multiple architectures and different partners.

+ Be part of a culture and team who supports one another, is invested in each other’s success, and committed to building an organization that provides ample opportunity for growth.

Embody our Culture (icrosoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (icrosoft.com/us/en/culture)

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 4+ years people management experience

+ 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

+ 6+ years experience with a full shipping cycle of Enterprise focused products.

**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 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ Effective written and verbal communication skills.

+ Enthusiastic, attention to detail, results oriented, organized, motivated and self-driven.

+ Drive to innovate and solve complex problems while retaining focus on maintaining a profitable business.

Product Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 5, 2024.

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