Job Description

The Microsoft Search, Assistance and Intelligence organization is responsible for enabling amazing conversational AI, assistive, and voice search capabilities across Microsoft 365 products (Outlook, Teams, Windows, and many more). Our products combine the cutting edge in cloud technology, AI and product design. Our mission is to break down the barriers of traditional search or virtual assistant, and instead offer the most relevant and contextual, rich conversational, natural language-based ability for the user to discover the content they are looking for, command the system to fulfil their tasks and empower them to be more productive. We do so with a user-centric view and ensuring the utmost trustworthiness delivered by industry-standard privacy and compliance standards.

If you are passionate, creative and want to thrive on the cutting edge of new AI technologies and experiences, if you have a desire to influence the lives of hundreds of millions of users, then Microsoft Search and Assistant Platform team is where you want to be.

In this team, you will be at the forefront of Search and Intelligent Assistant products/services. You will have significant customer/product impact leading and driving innovations to the core platform and architecture. Your efforts will result in a highly capable platform that powers a range of intelligent search and assistive experiences across a variety of Microsoft 365 end points targeted at productivity improvements for the users. Specifically, in this role you will be responsible for understanding, defining and delivering the most important facets of a human's life (e.g., people, information, etc.) and improving the ability to recognize them in the most natural ways that human's interact (i.e., text, voice, etc.).

To be successful in this role, you must thrive on the challenge of advancing the state-of-the-art, with customer-driven, and growth mindset. You will be passionate to drive cross-group collaboration, end-to-end product planning, and partnerships across various teams at Microsoft, cutting through ambiguity, creating clarity and shipping products with highest quality. Together with your passion, and drive to deliver high customer value, we will create seamless multi-modal experiences for our customers across the globe and enable the Microsoft 365 products in fulfilling Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

* Own and drive the roadmap for Search and Assistant Runtime platform, integration with various subsystems, and internationalization for a variety of voice-forward search and assistive experiences.
* Deliver the best-in-class, and industry-leading natural language-based voice experiences across a variety of product offerings.
* Drive stakeholder engagement, partner dependencies, and communication with executive leadership, and partner teams.
* Create product vision/strategy, and orchestrate long-term, and short-term product planning.
* Lead feature improvements through iterative design and experimentation by leveraging data to build strong understanding of customer.
* Collaborate closely across multiple teams, disciplines, and organizations within the company to deliver our ambitious vision.

Required Qualifications

The ideal candidate for this role is a talented and experienced technical Product Manager with:

* 5 years of experience in program/product management OR software engineering leadership
* Familiarity and/or experience in AI/ML and natural language technologies (NLP/NLG).
* Good understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and cloud technologies.

Preferred qualifications, but not required:

* Experience building search, user & intent understanding, or informational retrieval systems
* Experience with business planning & monetization strategies
* MBA and/or a graduate (MS, PhD) degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a related field
* Strong technical product leadership abilities with demonstrated strategic thinking and vision.
* Proven track record of delivering large and sophisticated products (ideally cloud-based services and AI/ML related).
* Strong technical acumen to drive design and architecture discussions with engineering teams.
* Excellent ability to effectively document product and functional specifications.
* Excellent analytical, presentation, negotiation, and story-telling skills, and strong communication skills - verbal and writing.
* Strong ability to drive cross-functional teams, partners, and cross-org leadership teams.
* Experience to efficiently work with and leverage internationally distributed development teams.
* Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and drive for results.

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 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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