Be a part of one of the fastest growing groups at Microsoft! Microsoft Teams is the product that PC World calls "the first product to truly compete against host group-messaging apps" and Gartner refers to as "a real game changer!". This is a fantastic opportunity to shape product experience for millions of people on mobile using Teams. Here are 3 quick facts about Microsoft Teams.

• Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing app in the history of Microsoft.
• 500,000+ organization WW use Teams.
• Microsoft Teams helps (a) increase employee productivity, (b) improves collaboration across the organization (c) enables innovation. This is based on Total Economic Impactâ„¢ study of Microsoft Teams, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Microsoft.

Our team’s mission is to create the foundation for the next wave of growth for Teams. We are looking for an entrepreneurial Product/Program Manager Leader to drive and deliver the product roadmap for Teams Mobile growth. The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable dealing with the ambiguity of building new features, is data driven with excellent analytical skills, and has strong written and verbal communication skills to coordinate efforts across a large group of stakeholders across Microsoft product lines. This is both a product and a people leadership role. You will lead a small but highly capable, motivated, and diverse team of product managers in delivering features and solutions for Teams Mobile.

What’s it like to work on Microsoft Teams? We thrive in a fast-moving environment that lets us quickly explore, iterate, and deliver value to our customers. Our colleagues are among the best in the industry and share a passion for delivering an amazing product. We’re also a team that values diversity of opinions, likes to have fun and continually learn, and we build that attitude into how we work together and what we create.

Responsibilities

• Define the product strategy and vision informed by detailed customer and partner research as well as data driven analysis. 
• Develop high quality and simple product roadmaps based on strategy and vision. 
• Generate detailed, crisp business requirements, functional specifications, and user stories. 
• Envision and design experiences that delight customers. 
• Manage prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience, performance, and operational support load. 
• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver products to market. 
• Run and manage project delivery rhythm in an agile environment; manage deliverables, schedules and unblock issues. Communicate identified risks in advance and drive mitigation plans. 
• Drive product launches, user growth and engagement by working with cross-functional teams including marketing, public relations, and field sales. 

Qualifications

• • 7+ years of experience in product or program management delivering end-user or developer facing products and services.  
  • Demonstrated experience across the entire product lifecycle â€“ from user research and competitive analysis, to ideation, specification, architecture, and launch. 
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.  
  • Excellent customer empathy with experience in user-centered design; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly software applications and customer-facing features. 
  • Technical fluency with solid understanding of web and mobile technologies; ability to understand and discuss architectural concepts, tradeoffs, and new opportunities with technical team members. 
  • Excellent business acumen, with the ability to think strategically and to solve complex and ambiguous problems with a structured and methodical approach. 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills across multiple levels of the organization and to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
  • High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.  
  • Strong project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a track record of managing complex projects with many partners in an agile environment.   
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Business, Economics, or equivalent quantitative field required. 

   

   

  Preferred Qualifications 

  • MBA or Master’s degree. 
  • 5+ years of experience working on internet scale B2B or B2C products in a high growth environment. 
  • 3+ years of experience leading mobile product management teams.
  • 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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