Program Manager 2 Microsoft
Bellevue, WA

Job Description

Join us as we take Microsoft Teams, our fast-growing collaboration product to the next level.

We are looking for a passionate product leader to define and deliver new ways to connect people, improve communication, and facilitate collaboration across a wide range of business applications and corporate cultures.

Teams is a hub for collaboration and communication. Our extensibility model allows for 1st, 3rd, and Line of Business apps to be integrated inside of Teams, allowing end users to use all of the apps they need in a single, cohesive experience. The apps core team is at the heart of building out this model to ensure that users have a rich in-client experience, while giving IT administrators the right management controls to customize that experiences.

We're looking for a talented Program Manager 2 to continue building on the momentum of the Apps Core team. In this role, you'll own and define how organizations can customize the apps they want their users to leverage, ensuring that they can customize Teams to fit their organizational needs. You'll have ample opportunities to work closely with customers, partners, developers, and other stakeholders to expose and enable new services and scenarios.

What is working on Microsoft Teams like? We're a fast-moving environment that lets us explore, iterate, and deliver value to customers. We share an immense passion for the customer and user experiences that surprise and delight the people that use them, and there are numerous opportunities to present ideas and work directly with executives and customers to collect feedback that directly impacts the product. While we innovate and move at a fast pace, we're also a team that likes to have fun, and we build that attitude into our product. Our culture is open, respectful, and empowering - we believe that listening to all voices is key to the success of our product and our team.

* 2-4 years of program management experience delivering end-user facing products and services
* Ability to wear many hats and learn quickly, and the collaborative leadership skills to lead a change in direction when needed.
* Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing startup environment. Self-starters and innovators with a positive, collaborative can-do attitude and bias for action are very welcome.
* Strong project management, leadership, dependency management and cross-group collaboration skills with a track record of managing complex projects with many partners.
* Experience across the entire product lifecycle - from project inception to ship and the know-how required to lead your crew to realize your vision.
* Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical
* Great problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Key responsibilities:

* Envision, spec, and ship innovative experiences scenarios for Platform
* Measure, track, and grow apps usage across different components of the Teams Platform
* Manage dependencies across teams to ensure that features land on time with the required scope across multiple services
* Engage with customers and internal developers, and triage, prioritize, and address customer feedback for your area
* Regularly present new product plans, demos, competitive reviews, and more to the leadership team
* Contribute to the overall product strategy and roadmap, as well as stay in sync with end-user features and service infrastructure
* Track all defined deliverables from conception through launch, leveraging established processes, tools, and communications mechanisms