Xbox Live, the leading gamer network spanning console, PC and mobile games, is central to Microsoft's gaming strategy. Xbox Live provides the breadth of social gaming experiences with Xbox Live clubs, friends, chat, messaging, community hubs, game hubs, game activity feed, and much more. Xbox Live has an exemplary future as it expands to serve many more scenarios where consumers, and creators interact with each other. According to Microsoft Gaming EVP Phil Spencer: "The number of people in the last 30 days that have engaged with an Xbox Live game on either Windows or Xbox 360 or Xbox One is the critical factor for our team to gauge our success". Monthly Active Users (MAU) is reported to Wall Street during the quarterly earning calls. We have an audacious goal to substantially increase Xbox Live MAU across devices and platforms. Do you want to be among the front runners to deliver this mission? Do you ideate in the consumer space followed by meticulous engineering? Do you thrive in a competitive
• As a technical leader, you will provide architectural mentorship, hold a high bar on quality and manage the projects through meticulous execution. You are not afraid to roll up sleeves and be in the trenches if needed. • As a people manager you will inspire, attract, hire, mentor and grow a team of talented engineers. • As a product innovator, you will ideate, scope and drive implementation and validation. The balance of your time will be spending driving architecture, innovation, design and development of amazing services and experiences within the team and pushing technology out to the larger
• At least 10 years of professional software development experience and 3 years of people management experience • Customer obsession, and a real passion for delivering delightful consumer end-to-end experiences. • Genuine love for the product and seeks out opportunity to ideate and follow through with execution. • Demonstrated experience in building highly scalable and reliable services. • Experience running an agile team that ideates, gets things done quickly, measures, gets user feedback and repeats. • Effective interpersonal skills and a history of growing people Preferred Qualifications: •