Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of cloud innovation at scale? Join the Azure Solutions and Ecosystems team, where we’re redefining how mission-critical workloads, like VMware, IBM Power, and Nutanix, thrive in Azure.

As a Product Manager II, you won’t just build features, you’ll architect solutions that power global enterprises, drive AI transformation, and unlock seamless migration paths for customers navigating hybrid and multi-cloud complexity. This is your chance to lead with impact, collaborate across engineering and design, and deliver intelligent, agentic experiences that make Azure the platform of choice for the world’s most demanding workloads. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep product manager expertise from Infrastructure to Application layers, build your business acumen, and become adept at partner engagement.

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

• Define and execute product strategy for mission-critical workloads on Azure, aligning roadmap priorities with customer and business needs.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, UX, marketing, and partner teams to deliver seamless customer experiences and accelerate adoption.
• Champion customer success and operational excellence by surfacing insights, managing resiliency risks, and improving product quality through telemetry and feedback loops.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years' experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1-3 years' experience with VMware technologies including ESXi, vCenter, NSX, and vSAN OR exposure to cloud computing platforms—preferably Azure, but AWS or GCP experience is also valued.

Other Qualifications:

• 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 AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 2+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

• Interest or experience in AI-driven infrastructure management and workload optimization.

• Strong communication and organizational skills, with a proactive and collaborative mindset.

Product Management IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.