Senior Product Manager

Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) is responsible for enabling and optimizing the end-to-end customer journey on the Microsoft Cloud.

At Microsoft Payments, we believe the payment industry is undergoing significant disruption and we want you to help us extend our payments platform to bring new and innovative ways for customers to interact with our payments experiences. The payments product team sits in the Commerce and Ecosystems (C&E) organization and is the heart of all commerce activity at Microsoft such as Xbox, Office and Azure. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help craft the next generation of fintech experiences and platform capabilities for Microsoft’s ecosystem of products. 

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

Product/Service Development 
 

• You will help create and build the strategic agenda for teams to identify customers’ unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities for enhancement and development of feature(s)/feature areas via quantitative (e.g., usage, telemetry) and qualitative analyses (e.g., customer usage, various listening systems, feedback channels of market and industry trends). 

• You will write product framing memo or strategy documents and drive reviews with senior leaders  

• You will help distill the vision and strategy into a product roadmap 

• You will prioritize the backlog to align tradeoffs for feature(s) and take in new inputs and adapt as necessary 

• You will work with peers in C&E, Gaming or Azure to define and work towards shared success 
   

Leadership 
 

• You have outstanding communication (written and verbal) skills, be a super collaborator and excel at creating clarity 

• You will provide strategic direction to cross-divisional teams partnering with leadership and engineering to prioritize and deliver on roadmap for features, products, and services  

• Your deep customer empathy and previous experience with payments will create healthy partner and customer experiences as we execute on a financial services strategy that spans both consumer and commercial businesses 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of technical product management experience in the payments/fintech industry.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years of experience in product management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Growth mindset with a desire to continually learn and apply new skills to a broad range of projects as you dig into complex problems and create solutions that scale to a large system and codebase
• Possess cross group and interpersonal skills necessary to articulate the business