Product Manager II

Overview

MicrosoftDigital (MSD) builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursuebig ideasthat power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and businessexpertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformationchangeagents, and customer advocates.



We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within ourorganizationand we encourage you to apply to learn more!

We are looking for an experienced ProductManager for the team.If you are passionate aboutsolvingcomplexissueskeeping your customers at the center of it, then this job is for you.



To succeed in this role, you should have a strong technical background and analytical skills, with the ability to work directly with both customer and engineering teams across the company.You should be able to formulate a vision and strategic plan whilst creating clarity in requirements,demonstratingcustomer-obsession with a growth mindset.You should be comfortable talking about technical components,understanddevelopment cycles but at the same time hold onto the business need andimpact. Excellentcollaboration, communication, value-driven decisionmakingand coordination skills are necessary for this role.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Asemployeeswe 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

• You will have the ability to learn, collect, examine, prioritize customer scenarios, product requirements, feedback, and help to set the OKRs, feature improvements, user stories, functionalspecificationsthrough semester planning to ensure better product and customer and engineering outcomes.
• You will havea hands-on approach to writing developer specs andparticipateindesign reviews.

• You will create clarity in requirements, embrace agility, fend off scope creep, confirm development approaches and timelines, and support the team to
• build and deliver high quality and secure solutions on time.
• You will promote hypothesis-driven product development and data-driven decision making.
• You will define and analyze metrics to assess the success of products and communicate withallstakeholders.
• You will engage directly with internal customers and partners to integrate feedback and extrapolate customerbenefitfor improved product plans.
• You will collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end systems and experiences whereverrequired.
• You will be a mentor to other ProductManagers in our team.
  

Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Bachelor'sDegree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• A Bachelor orMastersdegree in Computer Science orina related discipline, or equivalent in real-world experience.
• 4+ years of relevantexperiencedeliveringenterprise applications as a ProgramManager/ProductManagerout of total working experience.
• Ability to create structure from abstract ideas, take initial concepts to maturity.
• Solid understanding of consumer web and mobile technologies, bots, engineering platform at scale and the ability to hold technical discussions, go deep in technical areas
• Have a sense of pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, completeness, and resulting user experience.
• Strongtrack recordof not only individual excellence, but a demonstrated commitment to making others around them great.
• Outstanding cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Agile software development experience.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

The ideal candidate brings good understanding of enterprise collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, Power Platform), identity and access management (IAM), and cloud security fundamentals. They should be familiar with governance of collaboration containers (e.g., sites, workspaces, environments), security groups and RBAC models, data protection controls, automation platforms, and emerging AI-enabled assets. Experience with ownership models, access reviews, lifecycle enforcement, oversharing risk, and policy-driven control planes is a plus. The role requires the ability to connect collaboration, identity, data, and cloud governance concepts into a cohesive strategy that balances security, compliance, and user productivity at enterprise scale. Success in this role will also require using AI to deliver business impactleveraging data, telemetry, and machine learningbased insights to prioritize risk, automate governance actions, and design intelligent, scalable control mechanisms.

• Non-Technical skills
• Problem solving - Ability to clearly understand problems, decompose them into smallerproblems;and technical articulation skills so that it is easy for the team to collectively solve.
• Ability to work both independently and collectively in a fun team environment with minimal supervision.
• Good communicationand stakeholder management skills
• High capacity to learn and adapt tonew technologiesand engineering processes quickly.
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.