Principal Product Manager

Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365. It is an entirely new experience that brings together conversations, content, and the tools teams need to collaborate and achieve more together. We believe it will transform the way people work and help teams be more open, productive, and fun. We will make the way that people collaborate on documents, tasks, email, and other forms of collaboration.

Build the platform IT leaders rely on every day—comprehensive, compliant, and ready for global scale. As a Principal Product Manager, you’ll align customer pain points with a crisp vision, a focused roadmap, and measurable outcomes that bring simplicity to complex environments. You’ll collaborate closely with customers and field teams to validate, iterate, and land change that sticks across the customers.

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

• Partner across Microsoft to understand business goals, user needs, collect requirements, and synthesize product plans to deliver maximum impact across all areas. 
• Deliver end-to-end product solutions, including competitive research, requirements definition, user experience, and delivery of capabilities. 
• Successfully validate and improve product solutions over time through measurement and experimentation. 
• Manage dependencies across teams to ensure that features land on time with the required scope that is scalable for the diverse user needs and clients.
• Engage with customers and internal preview users, and triage, prioritize, and address customer feedback for your area. 
• Regularly present new product plans, strategy, demos, competitive reviews, and more to the leadership team. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5 years in a Principal-level role or equivalent.
• Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
• Self-starters and innovators with a positive, collaborative can-do attitude and bias for action are very welcome.  
• Solid project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a track record of managing complex projects with many partners.  
• Experience across the entire product lifecycle – from project inception to ship and the know-how required to lead your crew to realize your vision.  
• Solid affinity and experience in user-centered design, UX design and innovating on behalf of the customer is required.  
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.
• Great problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically and analytically to define and track success metrics for your areas .
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent 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).
• OR equivalent experience.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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