Senior Product Manager

• Product strategy: Define and evolve product strategy, priorities, and roadmaps for broad Fundamentals initiatives, grounded in customer needs, product goals, and technical realities.
• Metrics and insights: Establish success measures and guardrails, use telemetry and qualitative feedback to identify opportunities, and translate insights into clear product actions.
• Cross-functional leadership: Partner closely with engineering, design, research, data science, and product teams to align requirements, resolve ambiguity, and drive execution.
• Execution excellence: Lead complex initiatives across milestones and dependencies, proactively manage risks, and ensure improvements are delivered with quality and sustained over time.
• Customer focus: Represent a diverse range of customer scenarios and device configurations, ensuring product decisions reflect real-world needs and inclusive design principles.
• Systems and scale: Partner on tools, platforms, and engineering mechanisms that improve product visibility, accelerate learning, and help prevent regressions.
• Communication and influence: Communicate technical findings, priorities, and tradeoffs clearly to stakeholders at all levels, and influence decisions without direct authority.
• Team contribution: Raise the quality of product thinking and execution through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mentorship of peers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: 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. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, program management, software engineering, or a related technical role.
• Experience leading cross-functional product or engineering initiatives from definition through delivery.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data and customer insights to guide decisions.
• Experience working on system software, platforms, devices, or other technically complex products.
• Demonstrated ability to define product strategy and translate it into measurable, executable plans.
• Experience with telemetry, diagnostics, experimentation, or engineering quality systems.
• Proven ability to build trusted partnerships and drive alignment across teams, disciplines, and geographies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make complex topics clear to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Customer empathy and a passion for building inclusive, reliable products that operate at global scale.

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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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