Senior Product Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products in our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers with a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. ​

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Fabric Capacities are the driving force behind all these experiences. They provide the computing power necessary for tasks such as data modeling, data warehousing, business intelligence, and machine learning. Capacities offer a simple and unified way to scale resources based on customer demand. Whether you need to handle large-scale data transformations or real-time analytics, capacities can be easily adjusted to meet your requirements, empowering organizations to harness the full potential of data and analytics driving innovation and efficiency.

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Manager who can engage with customers and contirbute to defining and executing on our vision for Fabric Capacities, enabling business users, and data scientists across all organizations. An ideal candidate is passionate about technology, solving customer needs and has demonstrated the ability to mentor be a good team player.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to identifying customers’ multiple needs and market opportunities for enhancements or development of multiple feature areas via analyses.
• Identifies patterns in the data and prioritizes problem(s).
• Starts to build experiences across multiple feature areas to determine impact, foresees future opportunities, and provides research evidence to determine priorities.
• Helps distill the vision into a product roadmap, assists in building epics, and drives business impact across the organization.
• Tracks metrics, identifies future-oriented opportunities, and provides clarity on fundamentals of multiple features or feature areas.
• Starts to provide thought leadership for questions and challenges from group managers and other leaders, while managing challenging feedback.
• Helps to define the feature set and partners with Design teams for desired functionality and product vision.
• Starts to build systems to enable the team to scale for a product area.
• Collaborates with partner teams to build golden configurations, drive scenario walkthroughs, and more for customer adoption of multiple feature areas.
• Creates and drives strategy for taking the multiple feature areas to general availability.
• Presents at Executive Briefing Centers and large events.
• Develops, articulates, and presents reasoning and tradeoffs involved in deprecations. Builds trust with a targeted selection of customers, communicating with customers to capture feedback.
• Embodies the Microsoft and