PM 2 - Hyderabad / Secunderabad - Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Vision - Understand the space and the success factors to help build a vision of how a high-scale Partner and Seller Compensation space operates
• Technical Strategy Plans - Define technical strategy, product specifications and more importantly, deliver tactically against that same strategy. Ability to be highly agile, experiment, yet still accomplish long and short-term goals.
• Technology Roadmap - Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups spanning all organizational levels to create a solid technical roadmap.
• Services - Leading a high-functioning development team responsible for critical-path agent-facing services and tools.
• Customer Focus : Evangelize with field, and drive customer adoption
• Partnership - Driving strong partnerships with Partner and Seller teams to understand their scenarios and translating them to requirements for products
• Team - Fostering a strong working relationship with development, design, content, marketing, and business development
• Hands on - Embracing an adaptable and flexible organizational culture and thrive in our fast paced and evolving industry/technology, finding solutions to hard problems at massive scale and operationalizing them

• 5+ years of IT/Product Engineering experience, 3 years of core software engineering experience, and 3+ years operating in a complex, multi-system environment or an online service space
• Experience with shipping at least 1 full product release, from release inception through live site support
• Real-world smart, logical product manager and able to learn new areas quickly

• Executive presence and business acumen to win the hearts and minds of technical and business leaders
• Ability to generate trust, build alliances across the organization, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of engineering, and customers
• Recognized as thought leaders and mentors
• Assembling, leading and working within cross-group and matrixed team environments
• Demonstrated data analytics skills and abilities to consistently create an amazingly positive experience for customers
• Problem-solving ranging from conceptualization to implementation
• Keen ability to communicate ideas effectively with executives and engineering teams
• Influencing for Impact : acting as a trusted resource and advisor to a wide network of colleagues with diverse personalities, creating influence strategies that cross organizational boundaries to achieve broad business goals, and anticipating issues or implications that their ideas would have on others and pursuing mutually beneficial strategies
• Customer obsession : focus on the customer and customer experience, while utilizing verbal, visual and written skills and the ability to communicate with highly technical management teams
• Critical Thinking : intellectual curiosity, structured problem-solving skills
• Passion for functioning in an ambiguous and evolving engineering environment
• Clear focus in a variety of environments
• Demonstrated performance in prior roles, with increasing levels of responsibility and independence
• MS or MBA preferred