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Microsoft Corporation Principal Product Manager in Oslo, Norway
Are you an experienced product management leader looking for an opportunity to have an outsized impact across multiple products?
Are you passionate about hyperscale cloud services, using data to drive decisions, and helping to foster a data culture across teams?
Can you draft the strategy for operating the core platform behind the world’s leading productivity service—one that serves millions of users—all through the lens of data, metric, and costs
If yes, then the M365 Substrate Platform team is just the place for you. The Substrate Platform team is tasked with building products to identify opportunities and drive improvements in the latency, resilience and efficiency of the M365 platform.
We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager with passion for technology, operating scaled platform, customer obsession and delivering measurable impact. This role is uniquely positioned at the intersection of product management, business decisions, and data with high leadership visibility. This position will bring a balanced set of incubation, design, growth engineering, customer focus, and execution skills. The position requires you to drive the platform related efficiencies for the M365 substrate. You will be working with product leaders and architects across the company, with high executive exposure. You will mentor other Product Managers to be the cultural champions and adopt the best practices.
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
Evaluate & Ideate: Understand the workload requirements, evaluate the hardware usageand define strategies to drive efficiencies, by definingthe service and platform requirements.
Collaborat ive Leadership : Form deep partnerships and drive the engineering evaluation and execution of identifiedwork across the M365.Establish and manage the regular rhythm of business forums to push for actionable insights for leaders.
Data Driven: Drive data-driven decisions based on customer and platform signals, balancing the cost-benefit with a longer-term view. Our Platform is used to power of hundreds of features across Microsoft 365 products, which are used by 100s of millions of users per month.
Coach: Mentor other team members to help them to do their best work. Model what it means to excel as a product manager.
Be a self-starter, learn quickly with a growth mindset and ability to deal with a lot of ambiguity.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND experience in product/service/project/program management or software development.
Experience in working with hardware technologies is preferred.
Experience in working with customers to understand their use cases and distill requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
Problem-solving skills with technical proficiency and strategic thinking.
Ability to innovate at a platform level and drive integrated, end-to-end solutions.
Skilled cross divisional relationship building skills and ability to collaborate with partners, ability to pull together technology and expertise across M365, Windows and Azure, to drive clarity across teams and establish long lasting, trusted relationship with partner teams.
Ability to drive for results and influence for impact, ability to drive clarity, communicate goals to key stakeholders, and motivate them to execute on time and at a high quality.
Proactively identifies problems, proposes solutions, with demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity.
Prior experience working on Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Linux.
Ability to work across team boundaries to get things done.
Self-motivated, proactive, and result oriented.
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