Senior Product Manager

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Minecraft Online team to focus on multiplayer products and initiatives that deepen our community’s engagement with Minecraft. The ideal candidate has worked with teams of engineers, designers, and artists to create high quality games or experiences. They love bringing definition to complex technology projects and are an proficient at navigating ambiguous spaces. They have significant experience in cross-team collaboration, communication, and influencing for impact. Their technical expertise and attention to detail enables them to identify risks, drive development with predictability, and challenge how we work to continuously improve. Relationships and teamwork are important to how they inspire and lead the teams to deliver their best work.

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

• Drive definition and alignment on engineering team's priorities and scheduling, facilitate scrum ceremonies;drive execution of development roadmap and lead feature definition and scoping; ensure teams understandgoals and manage delivery through all phases of development.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across the organization: engineering teams, design, player support,data analysis, marketing, release management, and other Microsoft teams to deliver complex programs, toensure quality, coordinated feature releases, and to address player pain points.
• Drive development of product vision, including determining market fit, business plan, technical plan,dependency management, marketing and operations.

Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years experience as a technical program manager or product manager in consumer-facing software

o OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

· Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years experience in running multiple or larger technical software development projects (entertainment or gaming preferred)

 End-to-end experience developing a product, from concepting through release and sustained engineering/live operations

o OR equivalent experience.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 17, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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