Principal Product Manager - CTJ - TS/SCI

Are you interested in learning and driving the growth of new clouds at Microsoft? Are you looking for unlimited growth opportunities? Does creating, shaping, and growing a new kind of cloud from the ground up excite you? Do you have a passion for technology and an obsession for customers? Does strategic, global impact get you excited? 

Microsoft is building Azure to be world’s computer to tackle the hardest problems on the planet. Core to the success of this mission is that every customer, in every industry can adopt Azure to further their mission.  The Azure Sovereign Engineering Team is at the center of this mission, building hyperscale cloud infrastructure around the world to support commercial industry and government adopt cloud for their most complex workloads. 

Azure is seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive a cloud architecture that will improve margin, quality, and delivery of sovereign clouds for government customers. This individual will work closely with software engineering peers, operations, and Azure Global Leadership to dig into technical details and align stakeholders to architect new clouds. 

This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to build and leverage your understanding of Azure, Microsoft services and/or technical approaches to further develop and evolve the cloud deployment and operations strategy for Azure.

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

As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for taking your extensive experience in Artificial Intelligence and helping our customers adopt and deploy AI based workloads. You will use these experiences to identify recurrent scenarios and patterns which will also help to inform our technical roadmap – ensuring our future service meets those needs.  Turn problems of today into features of tomorrow.   

As a part of a growing team, your responsibilities will include:   

• AI Leadership: You will establish yourself as the “go to” subject matter expert for AI combining industry knowledge, hands on experience with key technologies gained developing and deploying production AI based workloads with a desire to partner with product engineering and sales teams.  
• Product Strategy:  You will be a part of a team focused on understanding customer needs and turning those needs in to new capabilities, tools, and processes for our cloud.
• Architecture:  You will help mature the cloud architecture, identify opportunities for design optimization, and ensuring our cloud is positioned to scale.  You be taking the existing cloud architecture, aligning it with customer requirements then help make prioritization decisions that have the most impact for our business model.
• Communications: You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining regular communications about the status of our cloud and upcoming developments.  In addition, you will be able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.
• Team Collaboration: You will pull stakeholders together to align on a shared vision, working with a talented and diverse group of PMs, Developers, and internal teams that rely on our services to be successful.  You will be a collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft.
• Cultural Leadership: Ability and passion to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusion. 

Embody our Culture  &  Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8 years of software development and/or product management with a track record of shipping products and services that include AI based solutions.  
• 3 years’ experience developing AI based solutions with proven experience in adopting Generative AI