Are you a self-motivated and results-driven leader who is excited to deliver new software innovation in a modern way that delights not only our end customers, but also the engineers writing the code? Do you have an inclusive leadership style that promotes a collaborative, growth-mindset culture? If so, come join the “Engineering Systems 365” (ES365) PM team! We're a core part of the team that delivers some of the most well-known and innovative software products in the world across Office and M365; continually evolving our services and client applications to deliver modern productivity and collaboration experiences to customers across multiple platforms. 

  

We’re looking for a product manager with strong technical skills, customer focus, and strategic insights to be at the heart of this transformation, concentrating on: 

• Empowering our customers with increasingly efficient and effective systems, delivering their best work across both development and client platforms.  
• Modernizing and evolving our engineering portfolio in collaboration with other engineering teams at Microsoft.   
• Improving the experience of Office engineers who are lighting up new experiences in our products while transforming the codebase for improved componentization and easier reuse.  

  

This is a high visibility role with focus on big transformations and large gains. Engineers, data scientists, PMs, and other disciplines in Office and throughout Microsoft will be customers of your work and leadership is heavily invested your efforts. Together we’ll empower Microsoft product teams to build, validate, and ship continual improvements and innovation in our products with performance, reliability, accessibility, security, and trust that empower every person and organization to achieve more. 

Responsibilities

• Drive Office Engineering initiatives, using experimentation and data to drive decisions and direction 
• Collaborate across teams, disciplines, and organizations to improve engineering agility, enabling engineers to measure and release their changes rapidly with high quality 

• Cultivate strong partnerships with internal engineers throughout Office, building deep empathy and understanding of how they get their work done  
• Innovate on engineering tools and services to deliver creative technical solutions which address customer needs 
• Leverage partnerships to drive the vision and improvement of tools and processes at a strategic level 
• Become a reference for Engineering best practices, technologies and techniques across the industry and cross-group within Microsoft 
• Drive Office requirements to Microsoft’s One Engineering System vision 

• Ensure all work is performed following required and recommended security practices 
• Actively promote diverse and inclusive work environments, tools, and services. 

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: 

• 8+ years combined education & experience in software product management and/or equivalent work experience 

• Proven track record in developing and shipping software or services based on data and customer requirements 
• Excellent written and verbal communication used to convey business problems, alternatives, and product strategies 
• Proven technical skills and ability to ramp up quickly with new technologies 
• Excellent cross-discipline leadership and collaboration skills 

Preferred Requirements: 

• Knowledge of engineering scenarios, tools, builds, SCM, and validation 
• Experience working effectively with a globally-distributed team  
• Experience defining, measuring, innovating, and driving change in large-scale software products and systems 
• Experience shipping software on shared platforms 
• Experience with Apple development process and toolset 

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