​​Senior Product Manager​

Microsoft is a company where 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 usage billing team builds the next-generation data platform for reliable ingestion, aggregation and processing of usage emitted at high volume by Microsoft services and submits to internal Commerce systems for an accurate and timely bill to customers. This is a mission critical service built for scale, compliance and data guarantees also leveraging our world class Azure Data real time messaging, streaming and analytics services to ensure critical billing usage data to flow into revenue for Microsoft.​ 

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The Azure Usage Billing team is building a next-gen usage billing middle tier for consumption-based cloud service. As a Senior Product Manager on the team, you have the opportunity to influence the product roadmap, define the feature set and ensure world class fundamentals and customer value. You also will engage with customers and solve billing pain points for services across the company. ​ 

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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. 

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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

As a Senior Product Manager, you will:

• In partnership with each Azure service, identify the billing scenarios and corresponding billing requirements.
• Work with services across Azure to land the requirements for the usage platform and drive product adoption.
• Produce user stories and product specifications for responsible areas.
• Understand top customer pain points and drive resolution through product enhancements, policy and support experience.
• Triage, prioritize and partner with engineering to deliver the service billing needs.
• Develop expertise in the Azure cloud business and billing models to drive standardization and simplification of billing to benefit the business and customers.
• Contribute to generating organization-wide priorities, define project milestones and success criteria.
• Regularly communicate progress toward goals for periodic project reviews.
• Collaborate with our analytics and data science teams to develop strategic insights to in