Microsoft
United States, Washington, Redmond
Azure is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services and a central pillar of Microsoft’s evolving cloud sovereignty strategy. As customers face increasing demands around data residency, operational control, resilience, and transparency, Azure is evolving to meet these needs at global scale. Built on a secure by design foundation, Azure delivers world class security, compliance, and operational resilience while enabling customers to retain control over their data and operations with transparency and auditability.
Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Manager in the Cloud+AI Microsoft Specialized Clouds team. This team is responsible for deploying and operating services, including the infrastructure that supports collaboration and mission critical workloads. The work directly contributes to Microsoft’s sovereign cloud capabilities, ensuring platforms can operate independently when required while remaining aligned with the core Azure ecosystem.
In this role, you will partner closely with engineering teams. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of customers. You will help shape systems and processes that assume zero trust by default that are scalable, repeatable sovereign capabilities. Your work will support both public sector and regulated commercial customers as Microsoft evolves its cloud architecture to meet the next generation of sovereignty expectations.
At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, your mission is to turn problems and gaps into the capabilities of tomorrow. You will be responsible for defining capabilities and partnering with engineering counterparts to deliver and operate them. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and define the product roadmap to ensure our offerings meets those needs.
As a part of a growing team, your responsibilities will include:
Product Strategy: You will help shape our cloud roadmap by translating customer needs into scalable capabilities, tools, and processes. This role partners closely with customers and sales teams to gather signals, lead requirements workshops, and advise on solution design and deployment. As the voice of the customer, you will synthesize customer and market insights to drive clear prioritization decisions, ensuring strong return on investment and alignment with Microsoft’s strategy. You will collaborate across engineering and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet customer needs and maximize business value.Architecture: You will help mature the cloud architecture, identify opportunities for design optimization, and ensure our cloud is positioned to scale.Communications: You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining regular communications about the status of our cloud and upcoming developments. In addition, you will be able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.Team Collaboration: You will pull stakeholders together to align on a shared vision, working with a talented and diverse group of PMs, Developers, and internal teams that rely on our services to be successful. You must be a great collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft. Ability to engage colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results for expanding the market for Azure across international boundaries.Cultural Leadership: Ability and passion to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusionOther:Embody our culture and values
Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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