Enterprises are constantly trying to strike the right balance between developer flexibility and keeping their infrastructure secure and compliant. A growing number of companies are creating dedicated platform engineering teams tasked with delivering time-to-business value through improved developer experiences and self-service within a secure, governed framework. With Gartner expecting around 80 percent of engineering organizations to have a team dedicated to platform engineering in the next 2 years, this is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of this growing field.
We’re looking for a product manager to drive one of the services at the heart of Microsoft’s platform engineering strategy, Azure Deployment Environments.
This role is best suited for a Senior Product Manager who is has experienced with technology, thoughtfully analytical in understanding customer requirements and context, and eager to drive tangible business impact in a collaborative team. You will need to collaborate across organizations to ensure extraordinary experiences across tools, cloud hosting, and customer outreach. Technical proficiency and problem solving skills to understand customer pain points and communicate effectively with the development team. Your role will require making decisions regarding trade-offs and challenges with app development so previous experience in developer tools would be beneficial.
We are a part of Developer Division (“DevDiv”) who’s mission is to empower every developer and their teams to achieve more by building the tools and services developers love and enterprises trust for innovation and delivery. We build developer platforms, tools, and services that enable citizen developers through to professional developers go from idea to code and then to production. We also build cloud services like Copilot, Microsoft Dev Box, Azure Deployment Environments, and many others that are delighting developers and changing the way we build, test, and run code in test and production.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will need to excel at contributing to cross functional v-teams by working closely with customers and partners using our products. Additional responsibilities include:
- Engaging with customers and partners to understand business needs and opportunities
- Defining and prioritizing customer scenarios and experiences
- Communicating feature requirements and feature progress
- Specifying, owning, and growing product features through the whole product lifecycle
- Creating differentiated developer experiences across development tools
- Leveraging data and analytics to capture progress and key results toward team objectives
- Communicate with customers via blog posts, documentation, and engage on Open Source forums
- Build end-to-end demos of scenarios for your developer experiences
- Work with marketing/PR teams and presenting occasionally at conferences
Qualifications
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science OR Scientific/engineering discipline AND 5+ years experience in relevant software design and development/DevOps experience, preferably specializing in distributed computing or developer platforms.
- OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of technical product management experience
Preferred qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- Growth mindset with a desire to continually learn and apply new skills to a broad range of projects as you dig into complex problems and create solutions that scale to a large system and codebase
- Possess cross group and interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the business needs and importance of our security deliverables with experience working with data for analysis/insights
Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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 May 10, 2024.
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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