Job Description

In Teams, we are reinventing the way people collaborate at work, at school, and in their personal lives. We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Program Manager to lead our new incubation team to innovate some of our next-generation Meetings and Calling experiences.

Ideal Candidates Will Possess The Following Characteristics

• Strong product management skills
• Especially well-rounded in business, technology, and user experience expertise
• Past experience bringing new ideas to market, and learning from those experiences
• Ability to engage deeply with customers and partners to identify their unmet needs
• Intellectually curious AND with a bias towards action
• Proven track record of delivering results in part through others
• Able to collaborate effectively with and inspire engineering and business groups across Microsoft
• Ability to quickly formulate new virtual teams and lead them to produce new experiences
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations
• A deep desire to help others collaborate
• The ability to lead other Program Managers at some point in the future
• Some experience in Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) is a plus
  
  

Responsibilities

• Serve as the PM leading the new Teams Calling, Meetings, and Devices incubation team. While this leadership role will have no direct reports initially, the leader will be required to lead virtual teams building out new experiences.
• Define operating model for the new incubation team
• Identify new opportunities, select appropriate candidates for the incubation team, and lead them to implementation
• Partner closely with other feature team leaders across Teams Calling, Meetings, and Devices who are also driving their own innovation to share ideas and best practices
• Partner closely with technology teams and other feature teams across Microsoft to assemble new experiences
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree along with degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics. Supplemental busines degrees (such as an MBA) a bonus.

10+ years of relevant experience building business or consumer products.

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.

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