Job Description

Overview

Azure Core is at the forefront of innovation for Microsoft’s Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) mission. We are responsible for designing and building the foundational primitives, platforms, hardware and services that power the current and next generation of applications including Generative AI. Our work expands the Azure Cloud (AI Regions, Region Expansions, New Clouds, Change Management Safety), scales out new hardware product introduction, enables the safe, scalable, and efficient evolution of Azure and improves the foundations of platform quality for every developer and enterprise.

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager with a bias for action to design developer tools and platforms that help accelerate Change Management efforts, with focus on driving safe changes into production across complex, large-scale services. You will be working with a team of technical product managers and engineering leaders across Microsoft to drive ongoing innovation in this area, in order to meet increasing customer demands while improving engineering velocity. This role is central to Microsoft’s success. This is an opportunity to shape the future of cloud infrastructure at one of the world’s largest cloud providers. You will work across engineering, operations, and compliance teams to define strategy, drive innovation (including AI-powered capabilities), and deliver measurable impact on Azure’s business and customer trust.

As a Product Manager for Azure Change Management, you will shape the strategy and build the platform that enables Azure to manage change at massive fleet scale. You will drive standardization across services, simplify deployment & maintenance experience for developers and operators, and make changes safer, more reliable, and increasingly AI-powered. This role requires product thinking, technical depth, and the ability to influence across a complex ecosystem of Azure teams.

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 the product vision and strategy for Change Management across Azure, driving a consistent, scalable, and reliable approach to managing configurations across services and environments.
• Drive configuration standardization across Azure, establishing common patterns, schemas, policies, and experiences that reduce fragmentation and operational complexity across diverse Azure services.
• Build the next generation of Azure Change Management, partnering closely with engineering, architecture, security, reliability, and service teams to deliver a platform that enables safe, scalable, and automated configuration changes.
• Solve complex customer and service-team problems across the deployment & maintenance lifecycle—from authoring and validation to deployment, monitoring, drift detection, rollback, and remediation.
• Develop a platform strategy that enables Azure services to onboard easily while providing consistent capabilities for deployment validation, policy enforcement, health assessment, and safe change execution.
• Leverage AI and agentic experiences to make experiences more intelligent—helping identify risks, recommend changes, automate remediation, and improve the safety of production changes.
• Drive adoption across Azure, working with service teams and partner organizations to establish standards, accelerate onboarding, and ensure the platform delivers measurable value at scale.
• Establish and manage product metrics that demonstrate improvements in configuration consistency, reliability, change safety, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, security, reliability, and Azure service teams, translating ambiguous and complex problems into clear priorities, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes.
• Represent the product vision with senior leadership, communicating strategy, progress, tradeoffs, and business impact while influencing teams across organizational boundaries.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in data analysis, product/service/program management or software development

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:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• 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).
• 6+ years working on developer platforms, orchestration platforms and building large-scale distributed systems.
• 8+ years of experience in cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 8+ years of experience working with developer languages used to manage resources within cloud environments.

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Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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.