Job Description

Over the last year Microsoft Teams Meetings has experienced tremendous growth as we transform the way people communicate and work together across the globe. Microsoft Teams is now used by various industries from enterprises to governments to hospitals, educational institutions, and many others. Social distancing and remote work with COVID19 have changed the way customers are using Teams for online communications in a way that we never imagined. More users are meeting online with their camera turned on along with personalization and customization of their video feed such as filters, virtual backgrounds, and many advanced video capabilities.

To meet the growing needs of our product in this new norm we are seeking a product leader to join us and help define, drive, and architect requirements for next generation meetings clients and experiences. We want the real time communication experience to work seamlessly across all flavors of desktop operating systems as well as web. This next generation desktop client should be performant, consumes minimal GPU, CPU, Power and memory and should offer a faster, slick, lightweight experience to conduct meetings even on low end devices.

In this job, you'll define and own the roadmap of Microsoft Meetings client experiences and work with various teams within Microsoft to deliver these experiences to our customers and users. You are someone who

* is passionate in user experience, is data driven and skilled in fast-paced execution to deliver our vision for reinventing meetings and meeting culture.
* has strong conviction and empathy for customer needs
* loves to work with and dives deep with data to formulate key insights and find anomalies.
* has the insight to discern what customers aren't saying to uncover underlying needs.
* creatively applies technology and artificial intelligence to solve complex problems.
* thrives in a bit of chaos then creates the process needed to execute smoothly at scale.
* can inspire teams across the company to work together towards common goals.

Our culture is inclusive, customer-driven, and high energy; our PMs and Engineers come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and loyal to coworkers and our products, and grounded in our customer and business needs. Our team has a strong sense of artisanship and accountability and provides its members many opportunities for learning and career growth.

* Plan, drive and architect requirements for the next generation meeting clients and experiences
* Lead and motivate high performing teams of designers, researchers, engineers, and partners to ensure successful execution of scope, schedule, and cost.
* Develop feature roadmap that balances business, experience, and technology.
* Sketch out feature flows and UI wireframes and document detailed product requirements and functional specifications.
* Produce collateral for our field and the press to use to bolster our claims that Teams Meeting and Calling experiences provide the best audiovisual quality.
* Represent the product to customers, partners, and internally.
* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience in Engineering, Computer Science, Human Factors.
* 5+ years of experience shipping software technology products and services.
* Understanding of operating systems performance including CPU, GPU, memory and power is desired
* Accessibility experience is a plus

Successful candidates need to exhibit these attributes that will enhance their ability to succeed in this role:

* Passion to succeed and motivate others through inspirational leadership and data.
* Demonstrates strong feature PM skills.
* Experience and passion for user-centered design and innovating on behalf of customers.
* Thinks holistically and can apply diverse problem-solving approaches.
* Ability to consider upstream and downstream process impacts and implications.
* Ability to establish and manage priorities in a high pace environment.
* Proven ability to execute swiftly without compromising experience and quality.
* Versatility and willingness to work with constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
* Ability to do public speaking in a wide variety of venues.
* Ability to work with executives internally and from some of the largest companies in the world.
* Ensure appropriate and effective communication flow among internal and external stakeholders.

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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