Principal Product Manager Lead

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager Lead to help drive our strategic feed experiences on Edge, Windows, and mobile. In this role, you will deliver a world-class news feed experience that takes into consideration implicit and explicit customer interest signals powered by ML models, big data, and AI techniques including GPT. We are currently evolving our feed to leverage the power of Copilot to deliver new and exciting customer scenarios, so it is an excellent time to join the team! 

You will use qualitative (customer feedback, user research, academic research) and quantitative analysis to drive immediate and long-term improvements (data, relevance, UX, measurement) to both existing experiences and opportunities for the future. You will closely work with designers, engineers, data scientists, user research and broader cross-org teams across Microsoft to build a vision and long-term strategy to evolve the experience and support our partners. You will also rely on your experience in enhancing existing UX & platform solutions at scale to be adopted by multiple products and teams across Microsoft.  

MSN specializes in building personalized and engaging content around news, shopping, sports, weather, and finance that can scale to 1B+ Microsoft customers on desktop and mobile. 

Our Culture: Microsoft Culture 

Our Team: Inside Microsoft's Web Experiences Team 

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience using data, analytics, and metrics. 
• Experience with end-user facing products and services, focus on UX. 
• Data analysis experience with Excel, PowerBI, SQR, R, Python/Pandas, or other tools. 
• Experience in building large scale solutions. 
• Ability to wear many hats and learn quickly. 
• Project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills. 
• Above agerage written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of organization, technical and non-technical. 
• Analytical aptitude and track record of problem solving and ability to think strategically. 
• Experience with A/B testing.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Understand current customer needs and gaps by conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis. 
• Proactively identify and manage scenario backlog, including ensuring partner dependencies are delivered in a timely fashion. 
• Partner with the developer team on performance, trade-offs, engineering challenges, and prioritization. 
• Define and drive A/B experimentation plans that ensure statistically meaningful conclusions are reached. 
• Partner with key internal and external partners to develop joint product plans, gather feedback, manage dependencies, and ensure customer success. 
• Keep pace with emerging standards in your feature area, and leverage learnings to improve our future product roadmap across desktop, mobile, and app categories. 
• Own your feature backlog with clarity, urgency, and accountability. 
• Actively drive and present product plans and reviews, demos, and competitive analyses with the team, partners, and executive leadership. 
• Rally your feature team to deliver on key metrics and business goals. 
• Model, coach, and care for the product managers reporting to you.