Principal Group 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 big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​ 

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The Fabric Data Warehouse is hiring a Principal Group Product Manager to help realize our mission of delivering the industry's most advanced, easiest to use, and fastest warehouse in the world. 

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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. 

Responsibilities

• ​​Creates and builds a strategic agenda to identify customers’ unmet/unknown needs and market opportunities for enhancement and development of feature(s) areas.
• Drives business impact across the organization, success criteria, and performance metrics of feature(s) areas.  
• Oversees teams in defining the feature(s) set and ensures partnership with Design teams.  
• Acts as a subject matter expert and collaborates with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering to identify product release criteria, customer acquisition, usage, retention, and monetization strategies.  
• Drives teams to evangelize the feature areas they work on with internal and external stakeholders, partners, analysts, and customers in the industry. ​
• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• ​​Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management experience.​ 

Preferred/Additional Qualifications 

• ​​Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program managem