Microsoft Teams is a new, collaborative communication product that brings together the power of Office 365 to empower teams to do more, together. As the hub for teamwork and intelligent communications, Teams provides rich capabilities for enterprise calling, intelligent online meetings, and an extensible platform for first and third-party integrations to connect with our conversational canvases.

Our group’s mission is to deliver cutting edge calling and meeting capabilities for Teams. Our team is looking for an experienced Program/Product Manager with a strong technical background and product focus to define and deliver strategic investments in our calling and meeting experiences. In this role, you’ll interact with a broad range of internal and external partners and have opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies in the online communications and meetings space. You will be working closely with the engineering and design team to plan, develop, and deliver solutions that solve customer problems. Candidates should be able to drive successful collaboration across multiple projects and workstreams while maintaining focus on customer requirements and strategic direction.

As a PM on our team, you will. have ample opportunity to share your work and get feedback from executives and customers. Your colleagues will be among the best in the industry – they’ve earned their stripes in startups and v1 products and share an intense passion for delivering an amazing product and user experience. We’re also a team that likes to have fun, and we build that attitude into our product.

We operate in an extremely fast‐paced environment with rapid exploration, iteration, and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead conceptualization of core meeting experiences, work closely with the design to come up the right user experience and work with the engineering teams and our partner teams to build and ship features with the best quality
• Engage with customers to understand their requirements, triage, prioritize, and address customer feedback. Contribute to the overall product strategy and roadmap.
• Evangelize, present concepts & roadmap to the leadership team and other senior leaders at Microsoft
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of complex group projects, track all defined deliverables from conception through launch, leveraging established processes, tools, and communications mechanisms
• Analyse large scale data to evaluate product quality, usage and success to inform future product planning

Qualifications

• Experience in program management or product management in software companies with a proven track record of delivering scalable consumer products
• Bachelor and/or graduate degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Deep understanding and working knowledge of Agile methodology of software development
• Previous experience of working closely with designers to build building great user experiences
• Ability to wear many hats and learn quickly, and the temperament to lead a change in direction when needed along with strong project management, leadership, and cross‐group collaboration skills
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively and critically about product features, architectures, and capabilities coupled with excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non‐technical. Native or professional fluency in English
• Previous experience with web based scalable products, mobile application development, and cloud solution architectures a plus

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.