Senior Product Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. 

​​Within Azure Data, the messaging and real-time analytics team provides comprehensive solutions and a robust platform that enables users to ingest high granularity signals (real-time & observability) and complex data, converting those into a competitive advantage in real-time for both end users and modern applications.  ​ 

​We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to join our Team!

​​​​The Data Activator team is a small and rapidly growing team and product, and we’re seeking a Senior Product Manager to come join us. Our product makes it easy for people to make sense of the millions of events happening around them and automatically take action, every second of every day. As a team we value people, learning, and excellence. We cultivate a high-trust environment with great collaboration, open dialogue, and fun. We seek out diverse perspectives and challenge our assumptions, so we find the best solutions and build the best product. We try new ideas, learn, fail-fast, and try again. And ultimately, we love delighting our customers and helping them succeed.  

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We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. 

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a world-class product with  solid user experience to our customers on time.
• Collaborate with partner teams to deliver new value in our product and across Microsoft’s products.
• Create clarity on the product vision, roadmap, and plan.
• Work with stakeholders to deliver success across the customer, product, and business.
• Work with customers to understand their pain points and make them successful.
• Foster a culture of excellence, inclusion, collaboration, and customer focus.

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• 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/Additional Qualifications 

• ​​Demonstrated ability to move and iterate rapidly, focus on customers, and deal with ambiguity.
• Experience with driving alignment across disciplines and product groups.
• Proven track record of excellence in product management, go-to-market, and customer success.
• Strategic mindset in identifying opportunities to create new innovative customer value.
• Solid collaboration, influencing, communication, and executive presence.
• Experience with agile software product development and data-driven decision making.
• Growth mindset to learn, seek diverse viewpoints, and ask questions that draw out the best in people​