Principal Product Management Manager

Join us as we take the Skype product and brand to the next level. We are looking for a passionate and strategic product leader to lead a team of product managers to define and deliver the next generation of Skype, helping people around the world connect seamlessly and effectively.

This leadership role will straddle the art, business, and science of product building to solve real world customer needs, working on experiences that help them connect with their network across modalities. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with partners across engineering, design, data science, and product to deliver world-class experiences across our desktop, mobile, and web apps. Are you a seasoned leader who has managed teams to deliver products? Are you passionate about using technology to better connect people across time and space? You and your team will be responsible for defining feature roadmaps and delivering experiences with high quality in an agile and iterative environment, applying a mix of product thinking, technical depth, data obsession, user-centric design, customer engagement, and collaboration to meet customer needs.

What is it like to work on Skype? We thrive in a fast-moving environment that lets us quickly explore, iterate, and deliver value to our customers. Our colleagues are among the best in the industry, having worked on some of the most successful products in the world. We’re a team that values diversity of opinions, continuous learning and having fun! We build that attitude into how we work and what we create.

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

• Managing a team of Product Managers, building strong relationships across the team, and investing in peoples growth and skill development.
• Making outstanding product experiences. Creating and driving execution of a multi-year vision and strategy by defining new features and capabilities. Working across disciplines to bring these experiences to customers.
• Working with creative and technical peers to develop plans, prototypes, experiments, and specs.
• Partnering with cross-company leaders to ensure successful delivery of the product roadmap.
• Defining success metrics, designing and conducting experiments, and measuring and reporting the impact on OKRs.
• Regularly present new product plans, strategy, demos, competitive reviews, and more to the leadership team.
• Creating healthy partnerships and working relationships within our team and across Microsoft, while improving efficiency in a rapidly evolving environment.

Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree AND experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• People management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Clear communication and presentation skills. Ability to communicate complex ideas to others, including leadership, in a clear, effective, and motivating manner.
• Ability to align others on a common strategy, goals, and set of objectives
• Ability to lead by example, generate energy, create clarity, and deliver success across customer, product, business, and culture.
• Self-starters and innovators with a collaborative, can-do attitude and bias for action
• Solid organizational skills and ability to prioritize effectively
• Curiosity and ability to ramp up on new technologies and products quickly
• Solid desire to roll up your sleeves and make things happen
• Customer-focused approach to feature design with solid understanding of user experience possibilities.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.