Overview
Substrate Storage Fabric powers the dependable, hyperscale storage and retrieval platform behind Microsoft 365 experiences and Copilot-era retrieval paths. This platform underpins scenarios across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, compliance, search, and semantic retrieval, operating at planetary scale across tens of trillions of items, billions of shards, and hundreds of thousands of servers.
We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to drive product strategy and execution across important areas of Storage Fabric platform excellence, including efficiency, trust, resilience, and modernization. This role requires a PM who can independently identify customer and platform needs, use AI, telemetry, and partner input to uncover opportunities, and translate complex technical systems into clear product direction and business value. You will own roadmap priorities for one or more platform areas and help deliver measurable improvements in customer trust, platform efficiency, reliability, and service modernization.
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Responsibilities
- Own roadmap definition, prioritization, and execution for one or more Storage Fabric platform areas across efficiency, trust, resilience, and modernization.
- Identify customer, partner, and platform needs using AI, telemetry, feedback, and competitive signals to shape product direction and improve product-market fit.
- Drive feature and investment prioritization for areas such as availability and durability, intelligent placement and runtime scheduling, fleet efficiency, security and compliance readiness, investigation telemetry, BCDR, and safe onboarding or migration paths.
- Define success metrics and use performance, reliability, and business data to evaluate product outcomes, refine strategy, and drive continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with engineering, design, operations, security, compliance, product marketing, and business planning teams to align customer needs with development and release plans.
- Translate distributed-systems concepts, AI-enabled capabilities, and platform tradeoffs into clear business value, product decisions, and stakeholder communication.
- Engage customers and partners to gather feedback, validate priorities, and improve release readiness, adoption, and long-term product direction.
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for key initiatives, from problem framing and feature definition through launch, iteration, and deprecation where needed.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
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 Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
4+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800.00 - $234,700.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200.00 - $261,000.00 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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