Principal Group Manager, Product Management

Azure Data Services is the Microsoft organization that delivers industry-leading, intelligent, cloud services that span 36 regions across the world. With best-in-class data products like SQL Database, CosmosDB , Power BI and others, we have millions of databases serving billions of requests, over exabytes of storage, across most of the world. The newly created Azure Data SaaS organization is pushing the limits and assumptions of what developers expect of a database. This means redefining the database experience all together. Leveraging our incredible portfolio of databases, we are building a cross-cutting database platform to deeply integrate with the developer and analytics ecosystem with SaaS ISVs and cloud-native developers as our focus.
We are developing the platform to help democratize databases for the developers by making them - easy to experiment, provision with no-wait, flexible on the database engine, easy to deploy from stage to prod, auto managed for one or even a million databases, scale as serverless, highly available etc. We believe that databases and managing them should disappear for most practical purposes for a developer, thus allowing focus on the apps. As a v1 product, we run as a start up by packing all the goodness of - learning and growing every day, customer obsession, excitement of building something new, laser focus on the target, fast paced execution, creative satisfaction, deep collaboration, close-knit team to rely on, opportunity to pick diverse roles and responsibilities. And while we do all of that, we make sure to have fun and contribute to creating a safe, open, diverse team culture that supports each other as a team. If you want to innovate at the speed of a startup with the scale and backing of a hyper-scaler, you won't want to miss this opportunity.
This leader will partner with the V ice President and General Manager to develop the product strategy and partner with engineering leaders to execute the strategy. They will partner with the GTM and finance teams to ensure we hit the right balance between adoption and monetization. This person will be responsible for product management of the database SaaS platform.Responsibilities

• Lead and build the product management team for the DB SaaS organization.
• Lead product definition of completely new service on Azure targeted towards application developers and simplify the database experience.
• Participate in design and delivery in collaboration with design, engineering, and your peers in product management.
• Maintain a robust understanding of the SaaS ISV space, including competitive offerings.

• Engage with and deeply understand the platform requirements of high scale customers and translate these needs into the technical requirements for a first-class public cloud offering
• Collaborate with our channels team to develop and drive our technical partnership strategy.
• Coach, and scale product managers, providing the context and air cover they need for their organizations to move the product team forward.
• Work across a number of database platforms including SQL, Cosmos, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, engaging in conversations with customers and stakeholders at all levels
• Bring clarity to product prioritization and strategy discussions and collaborate across teams to build consensus.

We are looking for candidates who:

• Are interested in the inner workings of the database platform and how improvements to offerings at every level can accrue to the needs of commercial customers
• Feel comfortable working on a highly technical product
• Have the ability to work with engineering teams to design and deliver capabilities using agile methodologies
• Bring a growth mindset, feeling excited and empowered by the notion of learning quickly in a fast moving yet supportive environment

QualificationsRequired Qualifications

• 10+ years experience and familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases and their use cases
• 5+ years experience leading and managing a team
• 5+ years of experience defining and building data products for application developers in a product management role
• Experience delivering services and/or shipping products in a commercial SaaS software setting in a product, operational, or engineering role
• Strong communication , interpersonal, public speaking, and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build developer platform or cloud infrastructure products (database experience not required )
• Experience scaling and retaining high-performing and organizationally complex teams, including managing managers
• Comfort navigating and experience influencing at the executive level
• Successfully driven high-impact, cross-functional projects that directly support company-wide initiatives and goals
• Excellent writing skills; our strategic product meetings are based on docs rather than decks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to translate business requirements and scenarios into products and services, ability to deliver results in an environment of ambiguity
• Stellar cross group collaboration, able to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large organization and deliver results that depend on other divisions and external partners
• Ability to work independently in highly ambiguous environments, with both technical and business groups internally and externally Ability to prioritize work according to both customer value and business objective

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 .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Product Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 per year.
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