Job Description

You would join the team Group Product Manager leading a part of the team with two primary focus areas: 1) Going deep into the extensibility needs for Word / Excel / PowerPoint, building the integration points that partners' scenarios require, while also improving the reliability, performance, and security of the overall system, in partnership with teammates in North America, and 2) Building a best-of-class Copilot Chat experience inside of Excel for users without a Copilot Pro license, again in partnership with other parts of the team.

This position as a

Group Product Manager - Excel Chat and Office Extensibility

is an excellent opportunity for anyone who's passionate about developer and customer success, as you need to maintain deep empathy for the Office user base, ensuring we build and maintain trust with both our ecosystem (allowing customers to leverage 3rd party integrations while staying current with updates to our products) and our users (allowing them to confidently use AI as part of their daily workflows).



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

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You will lead teams to define significant business impact across the organization and track success criteria for multiple feature areas across divisions. You'll also provide strategic direction in identifying long-term investment opportunities and will coach teams to engage partners to garner support for those feature areas. You will lead teams in defining a feature set and facilitate mid- and senior-level usability reviews with customers. You'll lead teams to own the roadmap for multiple feature areas across divisions, and will guide them to build golden configurations and drive scenario walkthroughs. You will provide expertise to help teams partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for technical needs in order to measurably improve product development in targeted areas. You'll also coach teams to identify features to deprecate and guide them to manage customer communities and build trust with targeted customers across sectors. You will create deep knowledge and expertise within your team around the needs of Office developers and users, both internal and external, becoming subject matter experts in your areas of focus. You will drive both near-term optimization and delivery of the platform as well the long-term strategy for moving it forward in line with organizational objectives.

Qualifications

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Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development + OR equivalent experience.
1+ year(s) people management experience.

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:

Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management
+ OR software development
+ OR equivalent experience.
6+ years people management experience.

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.