Senior Product Manager
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Overview Job Title: Senior Product Manager Are you passionate about redefining how millions of developers build and grow applications on Windows? Do you thrive at the intersection of platform engineering, developer experience, and app innovation?
Join us to shape the future of the Windows app platform within the Windows Platform & Developer Experience team. This is a high-impact role driving developer success across the entire Windows ecosystem—from modernizing the app platform and strengthening core developer fundamentals to enabling developers to reach users seamlessly across native, hybrid, and cross-platform technologies.
The platform primitives, APIs, and tooling you deliver help developers ship faster with confidence and build applications that are performant, reliable, and delightful for millions of users. You'll drive innovation in the app development journey, meeting developers where they already are by supporting familiar frameworks and workflows, while unlocking experiences that are uniquely powerful on Windows through deep OS integration.
As Windows evolves toward more intelligent, agent-driven experiences, you'll work closely with engineering, design, and partner teams to shape how quickly developers innovate, how confidently they ship, and how high the quality bar is for apps across Windows.
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 As a Senior Product Manager on the Windows SCAI team, your responsibilities include: Own a customer problem area within WPD, from problem definition and PRD/roadmap to execution with engineering and launch/landing with customers and field.
Define and drive the roadmap for seamless developer experiences on Windows. Translate customer needs into platform features and guidance, partnering across product groups and stakeholders. Drive strategic partnerships to align shared goals, unlock new scenarios, and amplify impact.
Influence technical architecture and long-term platform strategy in collaboration with engineering and applied science. Represent the voice of the customer and developer to ensure the platform is intuitive, powerful, and future-ready. Influence technical architecture and long-term platform strategy in collaboration with engineering and applied science.
Drive strategic partnerships to align on shared goals, unlock new scenarios, and amplify impact. Define success metrics, track SLT-level KPIs, and lead initiatives that deliver measurable growth and customer impact. Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
OR equivalent experience. Familiarity with Windows subsystems and app development. Experience influencing technical architecture and aligning cross-functional teams on complex systems. Proven success designing developer-facing APIs and extensibility models.
Deep experience in cross-functional environments and influencing outcomes across diverse teams and senior stakeholders. Deep experience in cross-functional environments and influencing outcomes across diverse teams and senior stakeholders. Executive communication skills: connect product investments to customer needs and business outcomes.
Passion for building not just great products, but also great team culture—collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement. Ability to balance big-picture. Vision with day-to-day execution. Exceptional skills in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, design, marketing, research, and business disciplines.
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 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- OR equivalent experience. 2+ years experience taking a product, feature
- experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit
- launch, internal tool/framework). 4+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature
- 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
- experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). #W+DJOBS #WDJOBS #WPDJOBS This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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