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The Azure Core organization, specifically the Compute team is seeking a highly motivated, talented, and technical Product Manager to help drive efforts in delivering quality and innovative products to our Azure customers. As part of this team, you will work directly with the customers, understand their needs and competitive landscape, and continue to deliver solutions ensuring that our customers' expectations are met and exceeded in terms of performance, quality, and scale. If you are an experienced technical program or product manager who loves working with customers and is passionate about delivering exceptional customer facing product offerings and experiences, we have an opportunity for you to make significant impact delivering product offerings to our Azure customers. Come be part of our customer obsession and product mindset approach inside of Core Azure!

You will be part of a team that is responsible for delivering exceptional customer experience with our Azure Compute platform and product offerings. You will partner with Microsoft engineering teams to build and support developing solutions for Azure Compute. The right candidate is data-driven and someone who thrives on Microsoft's leadership principles; provides clarity, generates excitement, and makes things happen. If you love customer obsession, product mindset, elegant solutions for complex technical problems then this could be the position for you.

To help customers world-over achieve their goals, Azure continues to build services that help customers achieve more. Azure Compute fleet allows customers to deploy and manage large-scale compute resources with various cost and management options. This newly launched service has a lot of interest from customers and partner and we are looking for a Product Manager to join us to lead this charter and grow this business.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmaps for scenarios / features / capabilities that you will own.

• Develop credible execution plans.

• Apply data driven insight where possible to improve efficiency.

• Design features by converting complex requirements, metrics, and policy into technical feature specifications and designs.

• Ability to work independently in highly ambiguous environments, with engineering, operations and relevant business groups across Microsoft.

• Take a structural approach in solving complex problems. Communicate to senior decision makers in a clear & compelling way.

• Stellar cross group collaboration, able to drive decisive action in partnership with others in a large & diverse organization and deliver results that depend on broader Microsoft org.

• Define targets for key business KPIs, and track and report progress on them.

• Define and implement QoS and SLA metrics for your scenarios / features / capabilities.

• Help lead and champion a team culture that embraces diversity.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years' experience in product management or technical product management

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years of experience working with customers, with the ability to deeply understand customer needs and the competitive landscape to achieve the optimal outcome.

+ 2+ years of experience in Agile development methodology, collaborating closely with development teams.

+ 2+ years of experience presenting to stakeholders with the ability to convey complex technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Other Qualifications:

+ Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

+ Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management

+ OR software development

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 7+ years of experience in technical program or product management within a cloud environment.

+ 2+ years of experience with data analytics tools such as Power BI or SQL.

+ 2+ years of experience driving both strategic planning and tactical execution, with a focus on cross-group collaboration.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 July 22, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .