Job Description

Azure is the world’s computer, and customers expect resilience by design. The Azure Core Resiliency team delivers platform capabilities and experiences that guarantee predictable recovery across zonal/region failures and ransomware scenarios, spanning Azure Backup, Site Recovery, and emerging resiliency experiences. As a Senior Product Manager, you will shape and drive the strategy, vision, and execution for critical Azure Resiliency capabilities that keep our customers’ mission-critical workloads running—every day, everywhere.

Azure Core builds the foundational substrate for Azure across compute, storage, networking, management, and resilience. Teams focus on platform quality, availability, capacity, efficiency, and customer-facing control planes that are highly reliable and scalable. Resiliency delivers end-to-end protection and recovery for IaaS, databases, and cloud-native services, with investments and roadmaps covering backup, site recovery, cross-region/zonal resiliency, ransomware recovery, and at-scale management. The team partners across Azure services and with field/customer teams to raise the resiliency baseline and provide single-pane management experiences.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will own and drive the vision, strategy, and execution for major areas within the Azure Resiliency customer problem space. You will engage with cross-functional teams to define and deliver resilient, compliant, and innovative experiences, influencing both product direction and organisational culture. You will be responsible for enabling direction setting, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring delivery of high-impact solutions that meet customer and regulatory needs at scale.

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 drive the strategic roadmap for Resiliency, identifying and prioritising key customer problem areas and opportunities for innovation.Lead the development of clear PRDs, OKRs, and roadmaps aligned to Azure Core quality and resiliency goals.
• Translate complex customer and regulatory requirements (e.g., RTO/RPO, test failover, evidence) into platform features and guidance, collaborating across product groups and stakeholders.Drive end-to-end scenario design for backup, restore, replication, and recovery—including cross-zone/region patterns—and validate with telemetry, experiments, and customer previews.
• Partner with engineering to plan, deliver, and safely roll out features using Azure Core safe-deployment practices; ensure SLI/SLO definitions and instrumentation support customer outcomes.
• Own livesite quality for your scenarios, lead post-incident learning, and drive continuous improvement.
• Champion the landing of products with customers and field: develop content, demos, and best-practice guidance aligned to the well-Architected reliability pillar and Resiliency essentials.Collaborate across Azure (Compute, Storage, Networking, Security/Defender, Data) to unblock dependencies and deliver cohesive experiences at scale.
• Mentor and develop PM craft within the team: foster crisp writing, storyboarding, data-informed decisions, and inclusive collaboration. Represent Azure Resiliency in executive and cross-org forums, influencing strategy and investment decisions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/program management.

Other Requirements

• 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

• 2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 4+ 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).
• 4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

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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.