Senior Product Manager

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a groundbreaking productivity tool that leverages the power of large language models, user data, Microsoft Graph, and the web to drive unparalleled creativity and productivity. We are a small, nimble team that is advancing the state of the art of models in M365 Copilot. Come join our team and help transform the LLM experience in the enterprise. 

 
As an AI Senior Product Manager, you will work at the nexus of product and research. Your products are the language models that power M365 Copilot. You will be responsible for balancing product needs with research priorities, ensuring that Copilot's messages are high quality, factual and safe. You will also be responsible for prioritizing new features and research, working closely with AI researchers to build and execute project plans. We’re looking for someone with an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate takes the initiative and enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment.    We are looking for candidates with interest and experience in language model training, reinforcement learning, and supervised fine-tuning. 

We provide a nurturing environment to support passionate researchers and engineers in technology innovation. We seek candidates that excel in deep thinking, advanced development, and fast-paced entrepreneurial execution in a collaborative setting. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with researchers and engineers at Microsoft to push forward the product roadmap and to impact businesses.   

We firmly believe in building and fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. We practice open communication and respectful dialogue. We support multiple social and career building opportunities in our team. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and prioritizing language model issues, and working with researchers to find a path to resolution. 
• Creating novel data collection tasks for taskers to evaluate language models and to collect training data for fine-tuning. 
• Creating language model prototypes to prove out new feature directions and scope projects. 
• Engineering prompts to teach language models how to behave across a wide range of scenarios. 
• Working closely with researchers and engineers to define and manage engineering and research projects. 
• Deploying and tracking AB model experiments in production. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading multi-disciplinary projects, defining requirements, developing project plans and working with multi-disciplinary teams to execute them.  
• Experience in building ML-powered products. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 7+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management
  • OR software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience shipping consumer-facing products. You’ve brought products to market, collected user feedback, defined success metrics and iteratively improved products.  
• Technical depth in software development, data science and machine learning. While you are not expected to write code on the critical path, you’re able to build zero-to-one prototypes, reason over large amounts of data, and speak the language of the engineers and researchers you work with.  
• Experience using and applying Large Language Models. LLMs will be your clay – you should know how to prompt engineer them, how to evaluate them, and understand they are tuned. 

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. 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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