Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft Word is a household name and is the go-to tool for creating digital documents for hundreds of millions of users worldwide We are seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to focus on front-end user interaction and experience, for both content and chrome, across multiple browsers. You'll lead a compelling, experienced team of engineers across a breadth of technologies. You'll work in a customer-focused, hypothesis-driven fashion with multiple partner teams across Office, leveraging both quantitative and qualitative data to ensure we're building experiences customers need and love.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

o OR equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• BS in computer science, or equivalent in related technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of software design and development.
• Javascript / Typescript experience.
• 1 year experience managing engineers or mentoring engineers.
• Excellent problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to dive deep into the technical details, and to align those details with great customer experiences.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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 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 requestvia the Accommodation request form .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager (or aspiring Principal Engineering Manager) with a passion for designing, owning, and shipping software, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills. You will lead a team of software engineers, organizing the work for best success against the team goals as well as nurturing those engineers into even more capable versions of themselves.

We are a people-first organization: we invest deeply in each other and are committed to each other's success. You'll grow your team and the broader group by Modeling excellence, Coaching for active development, and Caring through healthy, candid conversations. Previous managerial experience is not required, but demonstrated passion for growing yourself and others is. Creating and sustaining a great team culture is extremely important to us. We value and promote a high trust and inclusive environment where we work closely and effectively with others.