Product Manager II

Are you passionate about cutting edge AI technologies? Are you someone who is deeply interested in customer experience? Do you get excited about the impact that AI could have on customer experience s across our M365 Product Suite?
If yes, the M365 Experiences team is just the place for you.
We are looking for a Product Manager who would help drive next generation innovation across our M365 canvases. This position will bring in a balanced set of incubation, design, growth engineering, data informed decision making, customer focus, partner engagement, and execution skills. The position requires you to work with product leaders and architects across the company, will have executive exposure, and unlimited opportunities for growth and impact. An ideal candidate should be able to demonstrate the following:
Collaborate: Build and grow the capabilities and positive impact to customers that your product delivers. Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we're working with and work towards a better solution together.
Innovate: Care deeply about your product and bring the most relevant insights to our customers. Be excited about growing experiences that will be delivered collaboratively across M365 Core and beyond. Drive technology innovations and optimizations for achieving product growth both in terms of features and engaged users.
Guide: Define the business goals for the team, then create and execute a plan to meet those goals.
More About Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 (M365) is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype with the desktop suite of Office products in an always up-to-date integrated service offering. Since its launch, the service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft's business productivity solutions via the cloud. The service now extends the same capability to consumer communication and collaboration products.ResponsibilitiesThe Product Manager is someone with a passion for design and building products, with a solid technical understanding - and has good interpersonal skills for coordination with engineering and design teams and partner teams across the world.
You will contribute to building end-user experiences in a product area, understanding customer and user needs for your area, define the end-to-end user experience and customer journey, develop roadmaps, and negotiate priorities, and work with internal and external partners to deliver innovative functionalities and features. This will require close interactions with partner teams such as leading engineers, designers, and user researchers.
As a Microsoft Product Manager, we are looking for someone who:

• Works closely with design and user research to create, develop, and refine innovative & compelling user-centric experience solutions that meet the business, project, and design goals and objectives.
• Deeply empathize with and understand the underlying customer needs
• Forms hypotheses and performs experiments to iterate and drive improvement in specific performance metrics
• Contributes to large cross functional projects with internal teams and partners, tracks and manages dependencies to enable cohesive, connected user scenarios.
• Works across multiple engineering groups to align on product/solution architecture & technical requirements.
• Ensures standards are met throughout the development lifecycle (e.g., quality, privacy, security).

QualificationsRequired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years' experience in end user experience software product development and product leadership.
• Experience building and shipping large scale products with 1M+ monthly active users.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Background in driving features throughout product lifecycle.
• Experience in driving partnership/collaboration.
• Ability to help the team in solving technical problems in the best conceivable way.
• Ability to see the difference between good and bad interaction design.
• Strong verbal/written communication and organizational skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science or related technical disciplines preferred.

Product Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 per year.
Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate's primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
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