New 
Product Manager II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 06, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and product leadership, we have an exciting opportunity for you. At Scale team, we build tools and platforms for our engineering Product Managers and Community leads to support their community engagements and community management life cycle at scale. We provide scalability through continuous improvement of our platforms, tooling, and operations. Scale has two wings to enable this, the Scale Tooling and Platform team, where this position is located, provides platforms and automations to bring scale to these workstreams and the Operations side of the team supports engagements by directly working with customers and engineers to execute engagements. Together, both teams enable Microsoft's Security Product Groups to engage directly with customers to develop high quality products that are secure and meet customer needs. We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Product Manager II to join our dynamic team. Private preview groups are a mechanism to release features to a set of customers during the private preview phase of the feature development lifecycle. NDA private community members sign up one time by sharing their tenant ID, and get access any previews released through the group.The successful candidate will be responsible for managing private preview groups, validating tenant operations, performing data analytics, and standardizing end-to-end (E2E) private preview processes. This role is crucial in ensuring seamless support and scalability for our preview environments while adhering to customer NDA checks and compliance.
Responsibilities Oversee the creation, maintenance, and management of preview groups.Coordinate with various stakeholders to ensure the right users are added to appropriate groups.Monitor group activities and provide timely updates and reports.Assist in defining product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for SharePoint and Power Apps platforms.Integrates feature roadmaps with broader objectives, prioritizes backlogs, adapts to new inputs, and aligns roadmaps with all stakeholders.Perform market research and competitive analysis to support product development.Communicate Project Status and Risk Management with all internal and external stakeholdersDevelop and implement standardized processes for end-to-end preview environments.Ensure lightweight and scalable support for previews, optimizing for performance and efficiency.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align preview standards with overall organizational goals.Establish and refine processes for managing SharePoint and Power Apps projects.Implement best practices for development, deployment, and maintenance of solutions.Continuously evaluate and improve processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.Conduct thorough tenant reviews and validations to ensure compliance with company policies.Perform data analytics to identify patterns, trends, and insights for tenant operations.Add or remove tenants from groups based on validation results and data analysis.Maintain accurate records of tenant validations and updates.Ensure all tenants comply with Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and other legal requirements.Validate and document NDA compliance for all participating customers.Communicate NDA requirements and ensure adherence throughout the preview process.Assess process performance and facilitate teams in defining improvement goals.Leverage benchmarks to set high standards and support the implementation of improvements to achieve targeted outcomes.Facilitate process execution and maintain a clear end-to-end view of expected business outcomes.Lead change management, end-to-end implementation of improvements, and maintain documentation for flow, controls, systems, and requirements."Manage stakeholder engagement, address pain points, and drive the sustainment of improvements.Assess performance data, interpret analyses, and translate insights into recommendations for continuous improvement.Embody our Culture and Values | |