Principal Product Manager

Are you an experienced product management leader looking for an opportunity to have outsized impact across multiple products? 

Are you passionate about hyperscale cloud services, fleet management, and systems architecture?  

Does developing sustainable and efficient solutions for our cloud services across a global portfolio of datacenters with planet-scale impact sound exciting to you? 

If yes, then the M365 Core Platform team is just the place for you. We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager who will lead the development of the machine fabric and systems architecture used in the M365 Substrate. This position will involve a balanced set of incubation, design, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, customer focus, partner engagement, and execution skills. This position requires you to work with product leaders and architects across the company, has executive exposure, and has unlimited opportunities for growth and impact. 

Microsoft 365 (M365) is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams with the desktop suite of Office products in an integrated service offering. Since its launch, the M365 service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft’s business productivity solutions through the cloud. The service now extends these same capabilities to our consumer communication and collaboration 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

• Collaborate – Build and grow the brain trust of experts on performance, efficiency, sustainability, and resilience across the company. Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we’re working with and work towards a better solution together.  
• Innovate – Care deeply about cloud technology, sustainability, costs, and efficiencies of the critical 5x9s services we are running. Be excited about making major changes to the service to improve Quality of Service (QoS). Drive technology innovations and optimizations for achieving higher utilization and scale. 
• Guide – Define the business goals for the team, then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals. Build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the service and guide the team through landing it. 
• Coach – Mentor other team members to help them to do their best work. Model what it means to excel as a product manager. 
• Define product and technical vision and strategy for our machine fabric and systems architecture 
• Establish durable partnerships with other product, engineering, and support teams across Office, Azure, and Finance to drive execution and end-to-end ownership of complex, cross-organization projects  
• Influence partner team to get alignment on technology direction and strategy for achieving these goals 
• Author strategy documents, whitepapers, and presentations for both an executive audience and senior engineering architects Mentor other team members 
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years’ experience in product/service/project/program management or software development 

• OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications: