Senior Product Manager

Would you like to be at the forefront of innovation in memory-optimized virtual machine services, utilizing the latest hardware designs and cloud technologies to drive Microsoft's cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, and business insight and strategy?

Azure is the fastest growing business in Microsoft's history and is the foundation of Microsoft's commercial Cloud Services. Our team within Azure delivers technologies and VM services that enable organizations to innovate more deeply, engage with their customers more efficiently, and reinvent business operations for increased employee productivity.

As a Senior Product Manager on our team, you'll be at the forefront of co-innovation, development, and launch of the next generation of memory-optimized solutions. Azure's M-series virtual machines are our most memory-intensive offerings, purpose-built to deliver exceptional performance for large in-memory databases and memory-bound workloads. These VMs are ideally suited for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as SAP HANA, real-time operational databases like Epic, large relational databases including SQL Server and Oracle, as well as high-performance computing (HPC) scenarios that demand high memory bandwidth.

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.

• You will collaborate closely with system engineers and architects in theAzureservices team, various software development teams acrossMicrosoft, hardware development teams, as well as sourcing, capacity planning and management.
• You will influence others to drive business impact across the organization and track success criteria across divisions. You'll also be an expert in identifying long-term investment opportunities and engaging partners to garner support for those areas.
• You will define a feature set and facilitate senior-level usability reviews with customers. You'll own the roadmap for multiple feature areas across divisions, and will collaborate with a partner team to build golden configurations and drive scenario walkthroughs.
• You will scale Product Marketing teams by building marketing and roll-out plans, as well as leading the creation of customer support plans. You'll also take advantage of major opportunities to promote the feature areas you worked on and present at large events.
• As an expert, you will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs in order to improve product development in multiple areas. You'll also identify features to deprecate, manage customer communities, and build trust with targeted customers across sectors.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of partnering and influencing system engineers, computer architects, hardware design engineers and executives
• 3+ years of experience with compute VM solutions

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management
  • OR software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience in computer hardware design, and/or interaction with hardware from systems software (OS, Hypervisor, Drivers, Firmware) and applications.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.