Principal Product manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. 

​​Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.​ 

​​Who We Are 
We are Azure Cosmos DB team, part of Azure Data. We believe that building a NoSQL and NewSQL database service with limitless elastic scale from the ground-up which addresses the fundamental pain-points of developers, is an opportunity of a lifetime. If you share the same dream as us, come join us! In Cosmos DB, we are constantly seeing to apply the best ideas from distributed systems, database, machine learning, information retrieval, networking, and security. 
 
Who You Are 
Azure Cosmos DB team is looking for an exceptional leader and cross-team collaborator to take the Cosmos DB service forward. As a principal PM you will define product vision for your area, drive partner and customer interactions and distill the priorities and the roadmap for your area. PM’s are the lynchpin for how we bring new products and services to market and should have excellent written and verbal communications. We are looking for people with deep empathy for customers, great curiosity and willingness to question, high enthusiasm, integrity, and that are data driven and results oriented. You love the next problem, next experiment and have a deep desire to work collaboratively while solving tough and ambiguous customer and business challenges.  
 
Additionally, Are you a full stack appdev with no-SQL database background with keen interest in product evangelism, product market compete benchmark and analysis, write sample and code for customer /partner acceleration tools and be a part of startup product in terms of shipping products to market ?  
 

Responsibilities

​​- Takes responsibility to define the vision, what success looks like, and execute for your area in Azure Cosmos DB 
·         Eliminate ambiguity and create clarity for your engineering team, both in concise writing as well as verbally 
·         Credibly represent the product at the conferences, venues and 1:1 with customers 
·         Appdev on .NET or Java or JavaScript or Python with full stack development experience with NoSQL Databases backend 
·         Work closely with engineering, marketing, Solution Architects, and Sales team to grow Cosmos DB business 
·         Create leverageable collateral, FAQs, presentations, white papers in terms of benchmarking tools, solution accelerators, samples, demos 
·         Focus the team and relevant stakeholders on customers, retention, market share, and revenue 
·         Anticipate product flaws, decompose problems, and build real solutions 
·         Prioritize, simplify, and sequence projects to repeatedly get 80% of the value with 20% of the effort 
·         Leverage data to approximate benefits and evaluate trade-offs of a project 
·         Be scrappy, tenacious, and do whatever is necessary to ship 
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Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

​​·         BE/ BS degree required 
·         Experience in Distributed databases on Postgres, Mongo DB or other such Databases.  
·         5+ years of Product Management, solution architect, or application development. 
 
 
Preferred Qualifications 
·        Know the NoSQL market holistically, top movers, the product, and the competition well to operate from a strong basis of knowledge and confidence 
·        Have hands-on fullstack appdev skills 
·        Ability to operate at senior levels of the company, develop key processes and procedures that facilitate management of the business, and build successful relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally to help drive results 
·         Strong teamwork skills and ability to successfully drive cross-functional stakeholder consensus and action planning 
·         Must be able to communicate effectively to all levels of the organization, and demonstrated ability to influence senior managers to achieve consensus and drive results. 
·         Demonstrated ability to work effectively in high pressure / fast paced environments and consistently delivering on expectations 

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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