Overview
Join us at the forefront of innovation in Microsoft’s CoreAI Division at Microsoft India Development Center (IDC). CoreAI’s mission is to empower every developer to build the future with AI – we are innovating at the bleeding edge of Agentic AI with AI-powered dev tools like GitHub Copilot, a rapidly growing agent platform with Microsoft Foundry. The mission of the Azure Native Integrations org under CoreAI is to make Azure the best cloud for all developers. And as a Senior Product Manager, you will be closely working with strategic ISV partners and will be building and shipping new Azure services from the ground up targeted to developers building applications and services in Azure & Foundry. This role is dedicated to Storage ISV integrations, where you will co-innovate with partners to deliver deeply integrated, Azure-native solutions enabling seamless Storage, Data Management & Data protection experiences for enterprise customers.
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
In this role you will:
- Keep learning new techniques and how customers, partners evolve with them each day.
- Engage closely with customers and translate their unarticulated and unmet needs into actionable requirements.
- Analyze competition and market trends to build a coherent strategy for growing the business.
- Partner with ISVs to design deep, native integrations across Azure control plane, Azure marketplace and Azure Foundry.
- Drive end-to-end product strategy and execution for Azure integrations with Storage ISVs (backup, DR, data protection, and storage platforms)
- Define the success metrics, communicate them clearly, measure them and use them to iteratively improve the services.
- Create quality customer-facing product documentation, tutorials, and usage examples.
Traits we look for in product managers:
- Humility and growth mindset. The courage to say, “I don’t know, yet” and an appetite to keep learning.
- Maniacal customer obsession with unforgiving attention to detail and quality.
- Active listening to understand.
- Clarity in communication without ambiguity across all formats – written, verbal and visual.
- Ability to retrospect and reflect.
- Break down complex ideas and explain them simply.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in product management shipping enterprise products in the software industry. Experience building large scale cloud services is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or similar discipline, or equivalent industry experience. An MBA is a bonus.
- Experience working on developer tools and engaging with developer communities. If you are hands on and write code to build and tinker, that is a bonus.
- Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for solving complex business problems.
- Working knowledge of performing market analysis, competitive teardowns, and customer research to validate project priorities and direction.
- Familiarity with the Storage domain and Storage ISV landscape is a plus.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**