Senior Product Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

Do you want to be a critical member of the core infrastructure team powering the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era? Are you passionate about data storage, large scale distributed systems, and working on bleeding edge technology at massive scale? The Azure Storage team enables developers to build scalable, durable, and highly available cloud native and AI applications and persist data for their container and Virtual Machine (VM) workloads. These capabilities form both our public Azure Storage platform, as well as the foundation of service and product offerings across Microsoft including CoPilot, Office, Windows, Xbox and many more. Through this role, you can be part of a strategic team with Microsoft-wide and tech industry-wide impact. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help drive critical components of Azure Blob Storage. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for understanding the needs and challenges of customers, driving the product vision and strategy, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver innovative and impactful features and solutions. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
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.
2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
4+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

Responsibilities

Understand the scenarios, workloads, and the deep technical storage requirements associated with our largest and most complex customers. Close the product feedback loop between customers and engineering.
End-to-end ownership of feature and capability delivery:
Work with engineering teams for design, plan, and delivery
Coordinate cross functional teams for launch
Drive product adoption, growth, and retention through effective go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and messaging.
Measure and monitor product performance, usage, and feedback, and iterate based on data and insights.
Understand the storage market landscape, customer pain points, and competitive offerings.
Define and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and value proposition to internal and external stakeholders, including customers, partners, analysts, and media.
Provide direct engineering engagement with our largest and most complex storage customers.
Produce relevant collateral, architecture examples, and best practice guides.
Be the trusted advisor and subject matter expert (SME) to our customers for all questions related to Azure Blob Storage