Job Description

Are you looking for an exciting and unique opportunity to work at the forefront of Office innovation? The Office Graphics team is looking to fill a key Program Manager position in the video space, aligning with an Office and Microsoft-wide priority to provide video innovation for Office users. This role gives you the opportunity to help define the future of video experiences in Office, collaborate with partners across Microsoft, and work closely with our Design and Engineering teams to create Office fans through next generation customer experiences.

About the Team:

The Office Graphics team's mission is to empower every person and every organization to infuse creative expression into work, life and play. We are actively changing the way customers perceive Office with a track record of innovation in areas like Premium Content, Ink, 3D, and Automatic Alt Text. We strive to be thought leaders, customer advocates and focused on high-value deliverables. Video is one of our next big investments. Our team celebrates individual success, encourages solutions that leverage others and is committed to supporting team members. Fostering a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and collaboration is core to our team's values.

We sit at the nexus of Office and a large number of partner teams, designing features and functionality that create Microsoft-wide value. Our team owns both user experiences for graphical content and low-level rendering and animation. Our features cross many applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams, Stream, Flip, Outlook, OneNote, Project and Visio. We build features across Office endpoints (Windows, Web, Android, Mac and iOS) and device types (desktop, tablet and phone).

Join us on our journey as we unlock the power of video to enable memorable, engaging and high-impact storytelling, presentations, documents and communications.

* Incubate new video scenarios for Office
* Design video experiences, balancing customer needs and technical requirements
* Coordinate and communicate with a large set of stakeholders and partners across Microsoft
* Validate customer scenarios and designs, leveraging appropriate customer channels
* Work with Design and Engineering to deliver high customer value
* Collaborate with Marketing on launch messaging and collateral

Required:

* 5+ years of product or program management experience
* Experience gathering customer requirements and creating customer-centric designs
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or 5+ years of related industry experience

Preferred:

* 5+ years of experience designing features for a customer-facing application
* Familiarity with making data-driven decisions and deriving insights from a variety of data sets
* Proven ability to work across complex organizations on changes impacting multiple teams
* Effective communication skills, both written and in presentation, to diverse stakeholders
* Deep commitment to achieving high user and business partner satisfaction
* Experience with Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) would be an asset
* Background in graphics, rendering, photography or video would be an asset

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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