We are looking for a program manager with a proven technical background, experience designing and using RESTful APIs, strong collaboration skills, a passion for working with customers/partners internally and externally, and experience building/releasing and continuously improving products/services through data-driven methods. 

  

We are an organization that cares about work-life balance, personal and professional growth, enjoying your work, and liking the people you work with. Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, different professional and life experiences. We maintain and grow that diversity, and it is what makes us better at building the best solutions for our customers while having a blast doing it! Core to our team culture is the belief that you must have a ‘people-first’ approach to sustainably building and running 24x7 cloud services. 

  

This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to take the next step in their career and be at the forefront of Microsoft's strategy for Data, Cloud, and AI. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

As a Senior Program Manager for Azure Cognitive Search, you own and drive numerous core aspects of the service. You will work to identify key technologies both within Microsoft and the community that can be leveraged to enrich content used within the search service. You will work with partner organizations looking to leverage our search technology. Most importantly, you will work closely with customers to ensure they are able to successfully leverage Azure Cognitive Search and provide clarity to the engineering team to ensure we are building the most effective search technology in the world.  

• Contribute to the vision, value proposition, and strategy of Azure Cognitive Search. 
• Work closely with both dev managers and ICs to bring features to the product. 
• Engage directly with customers and partners to integrate feedback and extrapolate customer benefit for improved product plans. 

• Learn from market signals and customer feedback and apply learning to better improve our product design and solutions. 
• Follow data-driven decision making, leveraging customer and platform data analytics to drive planning. 
• Collaborate with the team and help your peers grow with hands-on mentorship, product guidance, and customer interactions. 
• Be willing to get your hands dirty and use Cognitive Search!  Your testing of the product enables you to be a voice for our customers and understand their pain points and delights.

Position is remote work friendly. Preference is that someone can attend US-based time zone meetings. 

Qualifications

Qualifications 

Required Qualifications:  

• 5+ years of program/product management experience. 
• Able to understand and write code for customer samples. 

• Experience with Elasticsearch, SOLR, Lucene, or other search technologies. 
• English proficiency required. 

Preferred Qualifications:    

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• AI and content ingestion experience. 
• Experience with a wide range of database technologies. 
• Experience with Azure services. 
• Experience building cloud platforms. 
• BS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent experience).
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting and communication skills, both written and verbal. 
• Open to feedback and effective at collaborating with a diverse group of people. 
• Demonstrate independence, bias for action, and strong tolerance for ambiguity with a drive towards clarity.  

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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. 

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