Principal PM Manager - Hyderabad @ Microsoft

Key responsibilities:

• Build a diverse team with capabilities needed to achieve current and future business objectives. Balance the development of existing employees while bringing in new external and internal talent
• Define the vision and strategy for the aspirational user and IT professional experience across the integrated device management portfolio, and cross platform experience.

• Break North Star vision into product roadmaps and drive incremental improvements based on listening systems including live site data, end user feedback, and other research methods. Run the Agile practices and mature them
• Partner across a broad set of engineering groups and other stakeholders and senior company leaders to achieve this vision and strategy.
• Develop a strong business intelligence capability to gain broad insights and identify opportunities grounded in a data driven approach.
• Build and foster strong relationships and deliver across a broad set of dependencies inside and outside of Microsoft.
• Engage with customers to share the Microsoft story, showcase Microsoft s technology portfolio and create publicly available Customer Showcase materials to drive adoption of Microsoft s products.

• Lead with a focus on people, ensuring employee satisfaction, diversity and growth and development.
• Act as the hub of coordination between various teams and engineering. Take the initiative to drive issue resolution, maintain consistent communication and/or meeting cadences, and hold others accountable for their commitments
• Ensure features/user stories are traceable, well-communicated, and aligned to the overall business or solution vision.

Knowledge, experience, and skills:

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or an related technical discipline
• 15+ years combined experience: Program Management, Product Management, Operations Research, Software Development, technical/engineering role(s).
• 10+ years of experience in Planning, design, development, testing and implementation experience on large scale projects for enterprise businesses.
• 5+ years demonstrated proficiency in executive level presentations and communications

• Proven success and experience in collaborating across engineering, business, data science, and operational teams, up to and including working with Partner/GM level stakeholders.
• S easoned people manager -You are a genuine self-starter, who proactively identifies problems, proposes solutions, and drives a team to address them
• Provide leadership, effectively communicating and managing priorities and risk for the org up to leadership, business stakeholders and team members
• Lead a team of product managers who will form part of this team. Develop the capabilities of the team, and delegate responsibilities as appropriate.
• Lead via coaching the members of your team, enabling them to develop thriving careers and be highly performing

• Be a change agent driving cultural change of your team
• Be strong technically, with a track record of successfully designing and delivering solutions for complex technical problems
• Good Understanding of technical skills to provide design inputs, perform competitive research on technologies used to come up with ideas for new solutions
• A track record of designing and shipping products and/or services, preferably at Enterprise scale
• A product ownership mentality showing pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, completeness, and resulting user experience of your product and/or service

• A comfort amid an ambiguous environment with demonstrated ability to adapt approach based on change while maintaining a constructive attitude
• An ability to collaborate across disparate teams to seek out and incorporate diverse perspectives into design solutions while being able to balance feedback while achieving results
• The judgement to confidently do the right thing , in all cases

Preferred Candidates should have:

• Strong customer focus and passion for doing whats right for the customer -Relentless drive for results

• Excellent judgment, decision making skills , verbal and written communication.
• Ability to go technically deep and quickly ramp up on new technologies
• Ability to work independently in highly ambiguous environments
• Excellent presentation skills and experience of presenting to developers up to senior management
• Strong independent thinker who works well in a team setting