Principal Product Manager, Manager - Health & Life Sciences

Microsoft is dedicated to the Health and Life Sciences (HLS) sector, leveraging its expertise in technology to drive innovation and improve healthcare outcomes. Microsoft focuses on transforming healthcare through advanced computing and AI, offering solutions that aim to empower healthcare professionals and organizations. By integrating its robust technology infrastructure with healthcare-specific applications, Microsoft is playing a pivotal role in the digital transformation of the health and life sciences industry.

The Principal Product Manager, Manager - Health & Life Sciences role will sit on the newly formed Portfolio Evolution & Innovation team in the HLS sector, reporting to the Strategy & Incubation Lead, with role visibility to the Vice President, Portfolio Evolution & Incubation. This team will play a critical role in defining new paths for existing products and net new solutions or platform services, in line with the mission for continuous innovation. You will be at the forefront of crafting and bringing to market innovative solutions for Provider organizations in the era of GenAI. A successful candidate will gather voice of the customer to pressure test the value and potential of new use cases. You will be tasked with 0-to-1 product innovation, coordinating across Engineering, Research, UX, and Design to rapidly test and iterate on new solutions or platform services. As we move towards bringing novel solutions or platform services to market, you will support Private Preview, Public Preview, and GA stage gates. This role will manage a dedicated UX Researcher.

We encourage a diverse and inclusive culture, and each of us strives to be respectful, collaborative, honest, accountable, and caring. You will have opportunities to develop your career by forging effective cross-functional relationships, taking on progressively broader product portfolio coverage, and establishing yourself as a trusted strategic advisor to senior engineering, marketing, and finance leaders. You can expect to have sponsorship for your work, support for your professional development, and encouragement to bring your authentic self to 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

Responsibilities include: 

• Drive 0-to-1 product build, taking strategic guidance and rapidly iterating with customers to test and refine hypotheses. Spearhead work with customers to uncover unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities for development of feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service) via quantitative and qualitative analyses
• Define the long-term vision and strategy for the product and its prioritized features based on a deep understanding of customer needs, market and user research, the competitive landscape, and Microsoft’s business goals and strategy. Write the product framing memo or strategy documents and reviews with senior leaders.
• Distill the vision and strategy into a product roadmap; own the roadmap for features, products, and services. Guide teams to prioritize the backlog and work with Engineering to align on tradeoffs for feature(s)/feature areas.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Business Planning, Finance, Engineering, and Customer Success from Private Preview to General Availability to identify product release criteria, customer acquisition, implementation, usage, support, retention, and monetization strategies
• Provide experience to help teams partner collect performance metrics (e.g., KPIs such as engagement, usage, acquisition, revenue, and in-project features), monitor and report on progress, and derive insights and drive productive courses of action across teams to improve product/feature development, iteration, and implementation
• As a manager, deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring for direct and indirect team members

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 4+ years developing net-new products for provider or provider services in a 0-to-1 manner.