Microsoft Principal Product Management Manager

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Posted date: Oct 03, 2024

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Category: Product Management

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $215,800
Range: $137,600 - $294,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 50% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

Microsoft 365 Copilot's mission is to be your copilot for work, combining the power of AI with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. The M365 Grounding and Search platform provides M365 Copilot experience with rich foundation of graph data across various entities enabling the experiences to be responsive, with high quality contextual and relevant information to drive productivity of Copilot users. 

  

We’re looking for an experienced Principal Product Management Manager to join the Semantic Index & Search Platform team, who can lead innovation and collaborate across Microsoft's product teams to define a multi-year strategy for this area. This is fundamentally about two things: (1) product thinking as to how the platform capabilities can enable our 1P/3P partners to solve real customer needs across Microsoft 365 copilot and search experiences and (2) what is the right approach to generate large-scale runtime stack and quality evaluation platform capabilities that involves considering a wide range of technical, product, and business factors to ensure that the platform meets the needs of our users and partners. Join us and lead the way in shaping the future of M365 Copilot Grounding & Search Platform. 

  

The Role: This person will be driving the next-gen Semantic Index to serve the future of Copilot experiences, and delivering a secure, performant, scalable, and reliant platform. You will drive the vision and strategy across your portfolio and sell our big bets to our executives, ensuring that we have their support. You will work across engineering teams to drive architecture decisions, UX teams to influence how this content shows up, finance teams to drive business models, and compliance and legal teams to ensure we’re building a solution that customers feel great about adopting.  We are a platform team so technical background is needed, and while we don’t directly own user experiences, you’ll utilize good product instincts to guide how the platform capabilities will create value across apps. 

  

The Group: This team is part of the Semantic Fabric team which is focused on delivering the platform capabilities that underpin the broader M365 Copilot system and Microsoft Search product. You’ll work closely with the PM leaders within this group to deliver combined value across a wide set of partners and scenarios.  This group is part of the larger Microsoft 365 Core which builds the infrastructure, platforms, AI/ML and collaboration & communications backbone for Microsoft 365. 

  

You: We all bring something different to the table, and no doubt you do, too. With that in mind, we are looking for diversity of backgrounds to build a well-rounded, flexible, nurturing, and healthy team that can execute incredibly well today and evolve for the future. You’ll have a lot of experience across things like creating and executing on platform strategies, thinking about the “Platform as the Product”, distributed cloud services, partner collaboration, competitor analysis, core PM skills like product planning, prioritization techniques, OKRs, and data analytics, etc.  All facets are beneficial for this role and our team; the more of these you have, the better. 

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.

As a leader and manager within our organization, you will be responsible for fostering a culture of respect, integrity, and inclusion where everyone can do their best work. 

You will achieve success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.  You will be a talent attractor to the organization and a role model to the organization.  As a product leader, you will wear many hats including driving the definition and delivery of a world class Search & Copilot experiences with customer empathy. This includes but is not limited to: 

Lead a team through the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative products defining product vision and strategy with customer empathy, focusing on business outcomes and driving future product investments.   Be a leader for a team of product managers, driving clarity, growing skills, and embodying our culture & values. Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution.  Drive product development with a team of world-class product managers, engineers, designers, data scientists in delivering on experiences and platform investments which align to product needs through developing and executing on long-range plan and the team’s core objectives and key results.  Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products. Collect and synthesize customer feedback, translating it into high-quality sought-after product. Identify and initiate opportunities for new areas.  Understand Microsoft’s strategic and Industry position as part of the Microsoft 365 initiatives and deliver products that are recognized best in the industry. Be the evangelist & the customer advocate - participate in enterprise conferences and industry events. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.4+ years people management experience.Other Requirements:

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.Preferred Qualifications:

Experience managing teams; coaching, mentoring, caring and contributing to a fast-paced, results-oriented team.  Experience in working across geo distributed team.  Product leadership abilities with demonstrated strategic thinking and vision; Proven track record of delivering large scale enterprise solutions and services with huge business impact and customer first mindset.  Solid customer presence and experience managing customer relationships; solid ability to drive cross-functional teams, partners, and cross-org leadership teams.  Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and drive for results. Experience building search, user & intent understanding, or informational retrieval systems.  A sizable portfolio of success translating customer insights into measurable success and meaningful impact.   MBA and/or a graduate (MS, PhD) degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a related field. Product Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 10, Year.

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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