Job Description

We belong to an era that promises to change the way we think about data and computing. Do you want to help build the foundation that helps Fortune 100 convert their data into insights? Are you interested in both software and hardware, optimizing large scale systems to improve efficiency and reliability? Are you structured and data driven in developing strategies and making complex decisions? Then Azure Storage is the right team for you.

The Azure Storage team is at the forefront of this era, building and running one of the largest, most reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud storage platforms in existence. Azure Storage provides the back-end data storage for all of Microsoft's internal and external Azure cloud offerings. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to manage the infrastructure for storage services that power the Microsoft big data ecosystem. You will work closely with other Product Managers, Software Engineers, Finance, Capacity Planners, and Business Planners to enable hyperscale growth of analytics with efficiency. This is the sort of role that will challenge you to drive real impact for our internal and external customers and for Microsoft's bottom line. You will have to expand your technical AND business acumen to understand all the inputs and impacts of your decisions both on the engineering teams and on the financial and business goals for the services you will manage. You must be comfortable with the phrase, I don't know right now, but I'll find out and tenacious enough to follow through. If that is you, keep reading

You will need a broad and deep understanding of our technical architecture and business strategy, with a passion for driving operational excellence. You will need to be able to understand, evaluate, balance, and represent many different points of view as you work across teams. You will bring structured analysis, along with a drive for results. You need to have a passion for data and the principles behind decisions, to rapidly make decisions that have impact for years to come. The Product Manager in this role will have to be flexible, pragmatic, understand both the engineering side AND the business side, and work across partner teams to keep everything moving.

* Analyze COGS, gross margin, and business value of feature areas including ensuring alignment with key KPIs for improving the profitability of product areas
* Analyze consumption and identify trends and growth opportunities across core KPI's
* Responsible for our core financial and capacity fulfillment KPI's
* Creating and driving multi-year roadmaps for our cost profile
* Drive to create and improve a world-class system for ensuring we have the right capacity in the right places at the right time.
* Constantly anticipating customer future needs and ensuring we are ready to meet those demands
* Partner with senior leaders across a wide array of disciplines and teams

Basic Qualifications:

* 5+ years of professional experience in technical product management
* Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or related disciplines or 4+ years equivalent industry experience
* 1+ years of experience in at least two of the following: Engineering, Finance, Data Science (including machine learning), Big Data Analytics, or Capacity Planning

Preferred Qualifications:

* Excellent analytical skills, verbal, and written communication skills
* Excellent cross-group collaboration skills - you will collaborate across the company and across disciplines with design, PM, finance, and our business teams.
* 3+ years of experience in cloud-based businesses

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.

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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