QualificationsCommunication skillsProduct managementProgram managementBachelor’s degree
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager for our Viva Insights team, responsible for creating essential engagement for Viva Insights with enterprise consumers as well as organizations large and small. Keys to success encompass building deep empathy for our customers, facilitating partnerships across the company, coaching and growing a stellar set of PMs, and providing clarity in strategy and purpose for our investments.
We are looking for you to bring fresh perspective and your unique voice to our team!
This role is based out of Dallas, TX with flexibility for in-office or work from home schedules.
About the Team
We are excited for you to join us and help write a new chapter for Viva Insights. We build across our partners such as Teams, Outlook and more, to deliver across the planet. We continue to work at establishing clear hypotheses, experimenting on our opportunities, and delivering real change that has measurable impact every day. In doing so, we will pair thoughtful empathy for our customers with a growth mindset in how we consider and approach each opportunity. We will hear every voice and continue to strive for being a data-driven team that keeps customers sharply in focus.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced PM to join us, working with a team of engineers, designers and more, to deliver compelling, valuable and impactful experiences to our customers. We are looking for individuals who can help foster an inclusive culture and encourage growth mindsets. You will need to partner effectively with teams across Microsoft to design holistic solutions. This will require technical depth to ensure we make good tradeoffs among multiple technology options. Your expertise in creating performant, flexible experiences and build cross-team & division partnerships will be a key differentiator in this role. In addition to driving our experiences, you will need to be a product leader on a number of efforts, able to represent the team and product as necessary, and ensuring we create and deliver a coherent Viva Insights story.
Key deliverables:
Define the product strategy and vision informed by detailed customer and partner research as well as data driven analysis. Develop product roadmaps based on strategy and vision.
Envision and design experiences that delight customers. Author detailed, crisp requirements and user stories for these experiences.
Partner with Design & Research, as well as your peers in PM across the Viva Insights team to deliver a seamless end to end experience wherever someone uses Viva Insights.
Work closely with engineering teams to deliver products to market.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Qualifications for the role include excellent interpersonal and communication skills, user understanding and empathy, cross-group experience, and an ability to plan and manage a portfolio of related features. Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, product design or related fields or equivalent work experience. More than 5 years’ experience in the industry required.
Basic
5+ years of experience in product or program management partnering directly with developers and designers to build and successfully launch end-user facing products
Demonstrated experience across the entire product lifecycle – from user research and competitive analysis, to ideation, specification, architecture, and launch
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related experience
Preferred
Excellent customer empathy with experience in user-centered design; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly software applications and customer-facing features
Experience in B2C or Consumer facing products
Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing startup environment. Self-starters and innovators with a positive, collaborative can-do attitude, growth mindset and bias for action are very welcome.
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