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Microsoft Corporation Senior Product Manager in Bangalore, India
Join us as we take Microsoft Teams, our fast-growing collaboration and productivity products, to the next level. We are looking for passionate product leaders to define and deliver new ways to help people connect, organize, and collaborate across work, school, and home.
This role provides the opportunity to build key experiences for our customers to help them achieve more together. You will be responsible for capturing customer needs, coordinating product plans, building roadmaps, designing features, and delivering them to unlock new capabilities. These roles are a mix of product thinking, user-centric design, technical knowhow, business analysis, cross-team collaboration, and external customer engagement.
We thrive in a fast-moving environment that lets us quickly explore, iterate, and deliver value to our customers and are looking for candidates with Growth mindset. We leverage frequent opportunities to engage directly with customers to review our ideas and work. Our colleagues are among the best in the industry and share an intense passion for delivering amazing products. We’re also a team that likes to have fun and continually learn, and we build that attitude into how we work together and what we create.
We are deeply committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that the best software comes from diverse, inclusive teams that celebrate the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and skills of all team members. The more we come together, the more we will achieve.
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
Partner across Microsoft to understand business goals, user needs, collect requirements, and synthesize product plans to deliver maximum impact across all areas.
Deliver end-to-end product solutions, including competitive research, requirements definition, user experience, and delivery of capabilities.
Successfully validate and improve product solutions over time through measurement and experimentation.
Manage dependencies across teams to ensure that features land on time with the required scope that is scalable for the diverse user needs and clients.
Engage with customers and internal preview users, and triage, prioritize, and address customer feedback for your area.
Regularly present new product plans, strategy, demos, competitive reviews, and more to the leadership team.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environment. Self-starters and innovators with a positive, collaborative can-do attitude and bias for action are very welcome.
Solid project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a track record of managing complex projects with many partners.
Experience across the entire product lifecycle – from project inception to ship and the know-how required to lead your crew to realize your vision.
Solid affinity and experience in user-centered design, UX design and innovating on behalf of the customer is required.
Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical .
Great problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically and analytically to define and track success metrics for your areas.
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) .