Job Description

The world's a lot different than it was 20 years ago. Work has changed. It's more collaborative, more asynchronous, more expressive. It's also way more complex. People have information overload, finding things is hard, communication is clumsy, triage is exhausting, and getting something done demands using an army of different apps to do it.

We're changing that.

The OXO Fluid group is a team of start-up minded PMs and Engineers tasked with creating new experiences from scratch that will redefine productivity and change how people all around the world work together. This isn't an incubation team; this is an in-house start up with the funding and resources necessary to bring our vision to market.

As a team, we do our work in the most modern ways possible -- we are anchored on the web, we have our repos fully on git, we are open sourcing most of our work, and we do not have any legacy codebases to learn about.

An important part of your role on the team will be to:

* Work with customers, user research, and design to understand the real human needs, evaluate market trends (including those forever changed by COVID-19), and uncover current needs unmet by M365
* Identify top scenarios and jobs to be done by both customers that love Office, and those that would never think of using Office to collaborate
* Develop user experiences which provide solutions for teams working together in geo-distributed, asynchronous ways
* Collaborate with engineering to prototype, and ship, these experiences
* Evangelize our work and its benefits in meetings with Microsoft executives, including Senior Leadership
* Work with partner teams on shared experiences, common technology, and opportunities for alignment in common goals
* Define what success looks like, how we measure it, and how we get there

Required:

* 3+ years of product development and program management experience
* Experience working on a shipped customer-facing product

Preferred:

* Comfortable working on complex and ambiguous problems
* Deep customer empathy and instincts for building delightful and powerful user experiences
* Strong product focus
* Self-starter, resourceful, can-do attitude; unbounded by traditional roles/responsibilities
* Comfortable taking risks in areas that are completely new
* Experience in different work cultures (including both in and outside of traditional MSFT)
* Adept at product, feature, and scenario definition
* Creative mindset; design & user experience oriented
* Proven partner skills in diplomacy and communication

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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