We are looking for a Principal PM Manager to lead Azure Lighthouse platform experience and PM crew. Azure Lighthouse is an award-winning innovation enabling Microsoft partners as well as customers manage their cloud resource assets with precision, control and business model alignment. The experience is ready for innovation wave #2, taking operational efficiency, security protections, and One Microsoft themes even further. If you enjoy building new products with and thru customer/partner insight, have skills in abstracting and defining a vision based on user signals, and can do it all while coaching, modeling and caring for your team, let’s talk.

Almost all partners at Azure work with and work thru capabilities built within Azure Management and Platform today. Looking into the future, growing application and services partner ecosystems around strategic technology bets becomes even more essential for customer success. ISVs (tech and app partners), appliance/device providers, MSPs, system integrators will continue to learn, adopt, and expand technology innovation built by the broader team to drive their business forward, while being conduits to customer adoption. The more we invest in this platform experiences that simplify and optimize partner experiences, the more we help our customers succeed.

Our team is part of Azure Core, within Azure Management and Platform. We call ourselves the Lighthouse Extensibility Ecosystem team and we work in collaboration with software engineers, technical PM crews, various sibling product groups, product marketing and global partner solutions team in building new products and enabling partner ecosystems at the platform. We’re a fast-paced team with a start-up like culture where we like to tackle tech and business ambiguity to drive clarity. We love to add value to our customers, partners, and each other! We strive to live by our Trust Manifesto!

Responsibilities

The PM manager will wear all hats of a product manager exploring insights, distilling hypotheses, and driving product outcomes with her/his team, as well as partners in software engineering, design, documentation and beyond. The individual will engage ecosystem of users and non-users for insights and advanced signals to shape the vision while delivering on fundamentals and quality expectations for semester plans. As a people manager, the individual will coach the team to function effectively, to care for customers/partners and each other. Delivering on known needs as well as defining the next wave of innovation will be a key success factor for this role. As all great product manager are, this role will also model as a spokesperson for new capabilities, engaging wide range or audiences with demos, presentations, blogs and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

6+ years of Program Management, Product Management, Technical Program Management, Software Engineering, Architecture, Cloud Solution Architecture, Consulting, Customer Software Engineering, Field Engineering, Technology Specialist or similar experiences

BA/BS degree in computer science, information technology, business, engineering, and/or related disciplines, or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in people management

Experience in defining, architecting, and shipping enterprise software and/or services

Experience in product management frameworks, decision & prioritization models

Experience in customer, compete and market research methods and techniques

Skills in cross-boundary collaboration across disciplines and dependent product/platform components

Experience in driving towards results with and through others

Experience in partnering with business, finance and marketing functions

Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs and/or app development patterns

Advanced knowledge and experiences with Azure and/or other public/private cloud platforms

Avid learner, who enjoys researching new techniques and best practices, as well as teaching others

Customer obsession coupled with strong problem-solving skills

Experienced in advocating for customer and partner success

Effective presentation skills and experience with engaging audiences of architects, IT Professionals, and developers, internal and external stakeholders

Effective in rapidly evolving environments and working across organizational boundaries

Self-starter, skilled-listener, strong collaborator, strong writing skills

Advanced degrees (MBA, MS or PhD)

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.

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.