Principal Product Manager

Join us as we take SharePoint, and OneDrive, our fast-growing collaboration and productivity platform to the next level. Our platform is the heart of Office in the cloud; we build features and services to enable great experiences.  We create global scale services to store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet.

We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to help shape the core platform strategy and deliver future platform improvement initiatives.  This role is a mix of technical thinking, product horsepower, cross-team collaboration, and significant business partner engagement. The position provides opportunities from creative to deeply technical and will enable you to define the future of how people work and collaborate. 

What’s it like to work on SharePoint, and OneDrive? Well, we thrive in a fast-moving environment that lets us quickly explore, iterate, and deliver value to our customers. We leverage frequent opportunities to engage directly with executives and customers to review our ideas and work. Our colleagues are among the best in the industry and share an intense passion for delivering amazing products. We’re also a team that likes to have fun and continually learn, and we build that attitude into how we work together and what we create. 

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 various Microsoft teams to understand business goals, user needs, collect requirements, and synthesize product plans to deliver maximum impact across all areas.  
• Work closely with various M365 and platform teams to understand and implement opportunities for performance and reliability improvements.
• Deliver end-to-end product solutions, including competitive research, requirements definition, and delivery of capabilities.  
• Successfully validate and improve product solutions over time through measurement and experimentation.  
• Partner with various engineering teams to identify bottlenecks, prioritize issues, build deep visibility into platform health, and drive systemic improvements.
• Regularly present new product plans, strategy, demos, competitive reviews, and more to the leadership team. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in driving strategy and roadmap for complex technical products.
• Strong technical grasp of network, caching, content retrieval, APIs etc; experience with cloud platforms, AI infrastructure / platforms is a huge plus.
• Able to make technical trade-offs required to balance performance, cost, and reliability
• Excellent skills in influencing and collaborating effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present technical content to non-technical audiences and work with cross-functional teams to drive real business impact.
• 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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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