Principal PM Manager

Are you passionate about building large-scale cloud services and experiences that delight developers? Does leading a group of talented product managers to deliver AI-powered products sound exciting?

The Developer Division under CoreAI - Platform and Tools organization at Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) is looking for a seasoned product leader to help create and ship exciting services aimed at developers, quality assurance engineers, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. Our division's mission is to empower developers and their teams to achieve more. We want to make Azure the cloud of choice for any developer building any app on any platform. We ship popular developer facing services in Azure, such as Azure Load Testing, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Cache for Redis, etc. Key areas of our investments include incubation of new services in the fast-growing cloud-native testing space.

We are incubating new AI-powered offerings in the fast-growing cloud-native testing space with the potential to engage millions of developers and testers building in the cloud, and significant new revenue generation opportunities for Azure and Microsoft. If this sounds exciting, please read on.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced product management leader to drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for multiple new service offerings in Azure while managing a diverse and fast-growing group of talented product managers. This role requires strong product thinking and leadership, track record of successfully shipping cloud service or developer-focused products to market, and technical depth in cloud native and open-source technologies.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a passion for people management with a demonstrated track record of recruiting and retaining high performers
• Leads by example through the model, coach, and care philosophy
• Builds upon a strong team ethos and embodies company and division values, cultivating a culture based in diversity, inclusion, growth mindset, and customer obsession
• Is qualitatively and quantitatively data-driven and agile in seeking and using data for decision-making
• Engages and influences with customers and partners at strategic, global companies
• Can create strategy and drive recommendations partnering with internal executive level stakeholders
• Has an enduring passion for software, the ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly, and identify value proposition for developer customers
• Collaborates across organizational boundaries, building experiences our customers will love

Qualifications

Required

• 12+ years of experience with at least 5 years as a Product Manager in shipping large-scale enterprise or developer-focused products to external customers
• Demonstrated ability to directly manage a team of PMs to achieve results, create a high-performing healthy team, and grow careers
• Strong program management, project management and cross-group collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related fields

Preferred

• Ability to innovate at a platform level and drive integrated, end-to-end solutions through the shipping process
• Great cross divisional relationship building skills to establish long lasting, trusted relationships with partner teams
• Great problem-solving skills and outstanding drive for results. Ability to drive clarity, communicate goals to key stakeholders, and motivate them to execute on time and at a high quality
• Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems, takes risks, proposes solutions, and drives a team to address them