We believe that customer empathy is the foundation for great products. Every industry will be disrupted by the power and intelligence of the cloud. And the future always begins with developers. We hope to apply this approach to build the most approachable cloud for developers – a cloud that developers love. We like to think that our job is half anthropology – studying how developers use their tools, and half craftsmanship – refining the user experiences we enable to ensure that we're optimizing every second of the developers' workflow. We strive to mix deep customer understanding with quantitative data to refine our product to enable our customers' success. A PM joining our team will understand what it means to bring critical thinking, creativity, principled design decisions, on-the-ground product evangelism, and internally serve as the customer ambassador. In this role, you'll serve as the usability PM – running weekly usability studies with developer customers across the breadth of Azure
The unified Azure developer platform team is responsible for: Design patterns for versioning, handling authentication, logging and error handling, and client side telemetry A common engineering system, including source control structure, build scripts and related tools, test infrastructure, and a CI system Standards and support for a common set of helper libraries (e.g. for AMQP) We aim to exemplify customer driven development. For us, that means that each of us talk with direct users or aspirational users of our product multiple times per week. Customer context is the currency within our organization
Basic: 5+ years' experience as a technical product / program manager, developer relations, or user researcher. Preferred: Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science or related field. 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. DDJL