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Azure Core is at the forefront of innovation for Microsoft’s Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) mission. We are responsible for designing and building the foundational primitives, platforms, hardware and services that power the current and next generation of applications including Generative AI. Our work expands the Azure Cloud (AI Regions, Region Expansions, New Clouds, Change Management Safety), scales out new hardware product introduction, enables the safe, scalable, and efficient evolution of Azure and improves the foundations of platform quality for every developer and enterprise. We are seeking a Product Management M5 with a bias for action to design developer tools and platforms that help accelerate Change Management safety efforts, with a strong focus on driving safe maintenance updates into production across complex, large-scale services. You will lead a team of technical product managers working with engineering leaders across Microsoft to drive ongoing innovation in this area meeting increasing customer demands while improving engineering velocity. This role is central to Microsoft’s success. This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud infrastructure at one of the world’s largest cloud providers. You will work across engineering, operations, and compliance teams to define strategy, drive innovation (including AI-powered capabilities), and deliver measurable impact on Azure’s business and customer trust.
Job Responsibility:
Secure executive support for the company-wide initiatives needed to succeed, maintaining the highest levels of trust and integrity with all stakeholders
Provide strategic help to cross-divisional teams as they work with Software and Hardware Engineering to design technical solutions
Oversee teams as they identify risks and propose data-based mitigations
Drive cross-divisional teams to define success criteria and provide strategic knowledge to help them understand return on investment
Oversee team collaboration and ensure alignment on product management and release
Oversee cross-divisional teams as they deliver on feature roadmap, track project schedules, develop staging and implementation, and hold teams accountable for leading governance programs
Oversee teams driving continuous improvements by using industry expertise to teach them to validate use cases and helping them partner with other departments to collect performance metrics
Oversee teams that own customer support and ensure cross-divisional participation in direct customer engagements
Innovate product management practices across Azure services and champion the adoption of generative AI tools to streamline planning, feedback-loop synthesis, and engineering system efficiency, setting a new standard for scalable, data-informed decision-making across the platform
Stay abreast of industry trends in cloud infrastructure and advancements in product management, ensuring our approach and practices remain cutting-edge
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
1+ year(s) people management experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
3+ years people management experience
4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework)
6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn)
6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product)