Product Manager II

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a new offering that harnesses the power of generative AI through foundational large language models to usher in a new era of AI-first productivity for hundreds of millions of enterprise users. As business workflows don't typically run exclusively on Microsoft 365 applications and data formats, Copilot is built as a platform right from the very beginning. Using extensibility, customers augment M365 Copilot with custom skills and organizational-specific knowledge to enable truly spectacular AI scenarios and power connected workflows. 

As a Product Manager II in the M365 Copilot Platform Ecosystem team, you will drive the next wave of AI & Copilot productivity solutions (referred to as "Copilot agents") built using the latest generative AI technology on M465 Copilot’s extensible platform. Working with the world's leading strategic SaaS product ISVs, our most strategic customers and system integrator (SI) partners, you will deliver high-quality, sticky and transformative Copilot agents for use by millions of end-users. You will further collaborate with ISV developers and customers to drive product-market fit for Copilot agents, grow adoption and deliver business outcomes. This engineering PM role is an excellent opportunity to don both a scenario and experience-focused product PM as well as an external-facing market PM (Ecosystem PM) hat – at the same time! 

We are looking for self-driven, entrepreneurial and technical Product Manager candidates who can operate in a fast-paced environment with high ability to influence without authority, perform rapid exploration, high sense of ownership and bias for execution. You will have the opportunity to own and drive the vision, strategy and product roadmap for multiple SaaS product ISV partnerships, customer and SI partner engagements with a responsibility for partner and customer impact, developer experience, partner practice building, growth strategy and business model to support the 0 to 1 phase of growth for the M365 Copilot platform and app store.  

The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable dealing with the ambiguity that comes with seeing partnerships across two organizations, is able to take both a business- and user- focused approach to defining goals, driving executive alignment, defining a product roadmap and engagement timelines before leading with a technical mindset to work both with internal M365 Copilot platform feature crews and with external developers building on our platform. 

We operate in an extremely fast-paced environment with rapid exploration, iteration and execution, as we continue to develop M365 Copilot extensibility platform to fundamentally transform how people and companies work using the power of generative AI. Your colleagues will be among the best in the industry and they share an intense passion for customer and partner success. Even while working hard, we have a great sense of humor and love to infuse that personality into our product. Since this is a partner/customer-facing role, travel from time to time within and outside the base location, is to be expected. 

We believe that we are rewiring productivity for the next 30 years! If you love taking on challenges and delivering nonlinear impact in a fast paced environment, we want to speak with you! 

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

• Work with product managers, developers, UX designers from the world's leading strategic SaaS product ISVs, our most strategic customers and SI partners across C-suite, architects and developers. 
• Explore the customer problem space and key requirements, pitch the potential of generative AI to transform business processes, lead envisioning and UX/technical design through with developers to build, ship and adopt Copilot-extending solutions into production. 
• Drive key product insights and developer ecosystem signals coming straight from the market to shape the future of the M365 Copilot and our AI extensibility stack inside Microsoft Copilot app, Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft365.com and other host products. 
• Get exposure to 100s of diverse scenarios working alongside ISVs, customers & SI partners using M365 Copilot (Microsoft's biggest bet since 'a PC on every desk') - basically never get bored since no two solutions are alike! 
• Bring voice of developer and voice of customer back to the platform feature crew and help drive backlog prioritization, envisioning and spec’ing of new, innovative extensibility features, informed by market feedback. 
• Work directly with your feature crew colleagues in M365 Copilot platform engineering to design and deliver innovative extensibility features, including technical envisioning for how Copilot agents will work and interact with other services and applications. 
• Serve as an expert on M365 Copilot/Teams/Azure/Microsoft AI platform capabilities and architecture; collaborate closely with peers, external ISVs, SI partners and customers to train, advise, and guide on technical capabilities, solution design, and platform strategy. 
• Develop and drive depth and scale engagement programs to strengthen the ecosystem of Microsoft’s key ISVs and SI partners. 
• Determine adoption strategy for the Copilot agent shipped and drive adoption among target customers working with others. 
• Work with strategic customers to drive adoption and understand feedback so that the partner can further invest into enhancing the value and user experience. 
• Unblock adoption, deployment and engagement of M365 Copilot extensibility platform and the agent/app at strategic customers. 
• Ensuring success for the developer and customer at each stage of the funnel – both selectively and at scale. 
• Research, contextualize, and evangelize broader solution and technology trends and opportunities to drive longer-term investments and product shifts. 
• Cover multiple regions in Eastern Hemisphere and work with peer product teams in the Americas and Europe (occasional flexibility around work schedules is expected).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Previous experience with proven success in working on commercial SaaS external partnerships and/or customer-facing engagements. 
• Previous experience working with web and mobile technologies, cloud services architecture and operations at scale, or other highly technical areas. 
• Previous business development and/or GTM-facing PM experience beneficial.  
• The ability to wear many hats and speak many language – from business to product to design to technical – learn quickly and change direction when needed. 
• The ability to think creatively and critically about product features and user scenarios in the enterprise space. 
• Demonstrated ability of very strong product thinking and a growth mindset. 
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, critique, and recommend improvements on software user experiences and interface design. 
• Strong project management, growth hacking, leadership and cross-group collaboration skills. 
• Experience presenting to senior product/IT management, technical product/IT staff and end users; able to pivot quickly and adapt. messaging to suit a range of audience technical levels and requirements. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical. 
• Ability to hold technical discussions, go deep in technical areas, when required. 
• Proven ability to build data-driven product experiences, define metrics and use analytics to derive insights to arrive at product & growth decisions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management OR software development
  • OR eqivalent experience.
• Recent experience driving generative AI-based solutions (RAG, GPT, LLM) and general awareness of the rapidly-evolving AI, especially generative AI landscape. 
• Hands-on experience or solid familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack is preferred (M365 Copilot agents, Azure OpenAI, Graph Connectors, Microsoft Teams extensibility platform, etc.). 
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically on the feet. 
• Innate curiosity and ability to self-start in an ambiguous, highly autonomous and rapidly-changing startup environment. 

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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