Job Description

Are you excited about empowering millions of developers with the best experience to build, deploy, test, and scale their applications? Do you love working with the developer community? 

The Developer Division under CoreAI - Platform and Tools organization at Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) is looking for a seasoned product manager 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 a fast-paced team and build our products in close collaboration with our customers by continuously learning from them. We love to experiment and push the boundaries of what is possible today. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you will grow and have fun, please join us!

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Engage closely with customers and translate their unarticulated and unmet needs into actionable requirements.

• Partner closely with various stakeholders to design solutions rapidly through experimentation and direct customer validation.

• Analyze competition and market trends to build a coherent strategy for growing the business.

• Define the success metrics, communicate them clearly, measure them and use them to iteratively improve the services.

• Collaborate with the marketing team to build the go-to-market strategy and drive adoption.

• Create quality customer-facing product documentation, tutorials, and usage examples.

Traits we look for in product managers:

• Humility and a growth mindset. The courage to say, “I don’t know, yet” and an appetite to keep learning

• Maniacal customer obsession with an unforgiving attention to detail and quality.

• Active listening to understand

• Clarity in communication without ambiguity across all formats – written, verbal and visual

• Ability to retrospect and reflect

• Break down complex ideas and explain them simply

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in program management or product management shipping enterprise products in the software industry. Experience building large scale cloud services is a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or similar discipline, or equivalent industry experience. An MBA is a bonus.

• Experience working on developer tools and engaging with developer communities. If you are hands on and write code to build and tinker, that is a bonus.

• Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for solving complex business problems.

• Working knowledge of performing market analysis, competitive teardowns, and customer research to validate project priorities and direction.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.