Microsoft Looking For Principal Program Manager – Microsoft Cloud Commercial Accelerants at Charlotte, NC Full Time

Do you want to play a lead role in growing Microsoft’s businesses and driving the company’s digital transformation? Are you passionate about developing experiences our users will love, while building a durable, extensible framework for execution? If so, come join our team!

As a Principal Program Manager within the commerce platform and experiences organization, you will have the high-visibility opportunity to work in a team chartered with leading strategic commerce initiatives that further define and deliver commercial accelerants across Microsoft Cloud in a more holistic way. Your focus will be shaping the vision for accelerants such as benefits and incentives, translating business needs to a product roadmap and requirements/specs, and delivering commerce tools in a way that increases our competitiveness and accelerates time to market. In this role, you will demonstrate a strong understanding of compete, customer experience, and future business needs, while partnering cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch.

We have a diverse, fun, and growing team of talented people from across the globe. We’re ambitious in our goals, but take organizational culture seriously and prioritize a diverse and inclusive environment. If this opportunity excites you and you’re interested in helping us build long-term value for Microsoft and our customers and partners, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Develop product vision for common building blocks of commerce tools, benefits, and incentives across the Microsoft Cloud, including Azure, Modern Work, Dynamics, and Power Platform
• Drive alignment and gain executive buy-in to solidify vision, align priorities, and execute plans by partnering with cross-functional stakeholders from concept to launch
• Lead connection of technical and business worlds by breaking down complex problems into a roadmap and steps that drive product development.
• Understand markets, competition, and products in depth to translate those into comprehensive product requirements/specifications.
• Anticipate customers’ needs and market opportunities for offer improvement, and work with engineering to design solutions to highly complex technical needs across organizational boundaries.
• Define success criteria and performance metrics and work with engineering to ensure telemetry is developed.

What we will do for you:

• Champion and sponsor your success and career goals at every level of our leadership.
• Provide you with the opportunity to drive material impact to Microsoft, our customers, and partners.
• Help you balance priorities within the job and relative to your desired work life balance goals.
• Support who you are as your authentic self and help balance priorities relative to your desired work-life balance
• Provide an inclusive environment where trust and shared perspectives are rewarded

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of technical program or product management experience with technical products. Cloud or commerce experience is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience driving elements of the product development lifecycle such as product vision, roadmap development, driving requirements, and product launch.
• Experience effectively working with multiple functional areas such as program management, engineering, UX/UI, marketing, and operations.
• Strategic thinking and ability to learn, understand and connect complex business models quickly
• Structured approach to problem-solving and strong project management skills with detail orientation
• Strong storytelling skills, proven executive presence and ability to influence at senior levels

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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