Senior Product Manager

Are you ready to transform how people and agents collaborate in the frontier firm? Messaging is the heartbeat of collaboration in Teams, how people and agents interact to get more done together, with recent improvements to threading in channels, artificial intelligence (AI) powered summary cards, custom emojis and multiple reactions and more. Are you passionate about building intuitive, high-crafted experiences that help millions connect, communicate and collaborate daily? Does solving complex problems with elegant, user-centered solutions excite you? Our team is at a pivotal moment in redefining collaborative productivity, and we're looking for a creative, self-starting, and visionary product leader to own & drive messaging experiences in Microsoft Teams, the fastest growing business application in the history of Microsoft. In this role, you will envision, create, and deliver new user-facing experiences that help people and agents collaborate and communicate with simplicity and ease. You will partner with designers, user researchers, engineers, and data scientists, to refine experiences, design and run experiments, and talk directly with our customers as you develop our forward roadmap. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with an entrepreneurial spirit, a background in user experience, and with a track record of creating healthy team culture and connectedness, to join the Teams Messaging PM team. This role requires a mix of strategic thinking, cross-team collaboration, external customer engagement, and an ability to create user experiences that are skillfully crafted. Come join our team!  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

• Making outstanding product experiences. Creating and driving execution of a multi-year vision and strategy.
• Defining new features and capabilities, and working across disciplines to bring these experiences to customers.
• Working with creative and technical peers to develop plans, prototypes, experiments, and specs.
• Partnering with cross-company leaders to ensure successful delivery of the product roadmap. 
• Defining success metrics, designing and conducting A/B tests, and measuring and reporting the impact on objective and key results (OKRs).
• Creating healthy partnerships and working relationships, within our team and across Microsoft.
• Contributing to a healthy and harmonious team culture.
• Improving efficiency in a rapidly evolving environment.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
• 3+ years of experience in driving successful product and user experience solutions for complex systems requiring deep synthesis of customer research and data and industry and UX patterns.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate complex ideas to others, including leadership, in a clear, effective, and motivating manner.
• Ability to align a disparate set of teams on a common strategy, goals, and set of objectives.
• Ability to lead by example, generate energy, create clarity, and deliver success across customer, product, business, and culture.
• Self-starters and innovators with a collaborative, can-do attitude and bias for action.
• Organizational skills and ability to prioritize effectively.
• Curiosity and ability to ramp up on new technologies and products.
• Desire to roll up your sleeves and make things happen.
• Customer-focused approach to feature design with an understanding of user experience possibilities.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 October 6, 2025.

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