Senior Product Manager
Microsoft
Senior Product Manager
Belgrade, Serbia
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Overview
We are Azure Data, a Microsoft team that drives the future of data processing in the Microsoft Cloud. Our software development team, located in Belgrade, is building some of the most advanced and widely used data processing cloud services in the world. The services we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users.
Azure SQL Database is our flagship database service powering millions of applications, ranging from small shops to large mission critical business workloads. Benefits of instant scaling and serverless mode, intelligent performance tuning and security as well as built-in AI capabilities are available to all applications, whether modernized on-premises workloads or apps natively built for the cloud.
Azure SQL Managed Instance is our customer's first choice service for migrating & modernizing existing SQL Server instances from on-premises data centers to the cloud. Thousands of customers have easily migrated their apps to this service and got not only the benefits of automated database management (patching, backups, high-availability, security) but also opportunity to modernize these applications instantly by leveraging cutting-edge capabilities of Azure (integrated data platform, analytics and AI).
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (technical product owner) who would work closely with our engineering team to define and build new product experiences and capabilities offered in Microsoft cloud services. As part of our product development cycle, we do detailed market and competitive research, meet clients, design new software features, develop and preview them with end-users iteratively and evangelize the new features to the world.
The cycle is similar to those used by most Silicon Valley startups, additionally boosted by the advantages that Microsoft has, as a company with a global reach.
Working within our team would enable you to create world-class software products out of world-class software technology, learn from us, and influence how we work with your unique perspectives and experience. Furthermore, this is an opportunity to collaborate with some of the top talent from across the globe, and partner with experts in various industry domains.
Qualifications
- Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of product management experience in software products (experience in Enterprise segment is a plus).
- Eagerness to continuously learn and improve personal skills and adapt to dynamic working environments in an agile manner.
- Passion for technology and strong empathy with customers.
- Solid technical understanding of relational database systems, and practical experience with at least one RDBMS.
- Solid system design and problem-solving skills and experience in architecture/design/implementation and delivery of great user experiences.
- Experience with cloud technologies (can be as an end user).
- Good communication and cross team collaboration skills.
- Effective and fluent communication (in English).
Responsibilities
- Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of Microsoft’s as well as competitive products.
- Identifying user’s pain points that currently exist and creating a vision and strategy on how to make our users more productive with the technology we develop.
- Creating the functional design of a new software product, or new features in existing products. Aligning functionality with complementary Microsoft products.
- Tracking how users respond to new features and validate progress towards the set goals. Managing relationships with key users of our services as well as Microsoft sales and partners.
- Liaising between the development team and the rest of the world – the customers, the user experience designers, support team, etc.