Senior Product Manager Microsoft 365 Network Platform

Every request Microsoft 365 serves depends on the network beneath it a global fabric spanning every geography Microsoft operates in serving hundreds of millions of people. As Microsoft 365 grows and its infrastructure continues to move toward an Azure-native footprint the network has to evolve with it: toward explicit identity-aware connectivity stronger regional isolation and smaller failure looking for a Senior Product Manager to own network connectivity strategy for the platform. That evolution is where you would start and the charter continues well past it. You will shape long-term architecture direction with the teams that own and depend on the is an AI-first product management role. AI is changing what the PM role consists of and that change is accelerating. We expect someone who already works this way or is eager to and who brings the team with role requires on-call for the platform. The network sits on the critical path for Microsoft 365 and product management here comes with real operational ownership including occasional out-of-hours engagement during live position is based in Redmond Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per 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.

• Own the strategy for network connectivity and its evolution across the platform and turn that direction into a roadmap teams can execute.
• Drive the move to an explicit regionalized policy-enforced connectivity model including the migration sequencing exception governance and dependency burn-down that make it real.
• Take on high-impact problems across the charter including scalability resiliency segmentation and isolation capacity latency and platform transitions and drive them to resolution.
• Work problems end-to-end: own the outcome even when every step of the work belongs to someone else.
• Model the tradeoffs before committing investment and apply judgment where the model runs out.
• Weigh security reliability performance and cost against each other and prioritize multi-year platform investments with the teams that fund and build them.
• Keep failure domains contained and recovery paths in the on-call rotation help scope and triage live incidents and turn what you learn from them into root-cause fixes and roadmap priorities.
• Set success metrics OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (key performance indicators) and shape investment priorities with leadership.
• Explain complex tradeoffs to executives in a way that leads to decisions.
• Mentor other product managers and move the team toward better AI-forward ways of working.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree AND 5 years experience in product management and driving a large-scale infrastructure migration or network transition for large scale distributed systems
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Decision Making - The ability to make decisions in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment. This includes the ability to define diagnose and determine an appropriate resolution recommendation or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g. resources costs tradeoffs).
• Influence Others - The ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence.
• Negotiation - The ability to achieve mutually satisfying agreements in negotiations with others by listening to their objectives acting as the companys representative to effectively communicate the companys objective and seeking common ground and collaborative solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical depth in networking and large-scale distributed systems enough to reason with architects about how traffic moves how the network fails and what it costs; to hold your own in a live incident; and to explain those tradeoffs clearly to any audience.
• Includes cloud networking virtual networks and peering software-defined networking address management and NAT and how their limits behave at fleet scale.
• Experience driving a large-scale infrastructure migration or network transition on a live high-availability service including sequencing rollback and dependency burn-down.
• Fluency with AI-forward ways of working (agents automation evaluation sets) or a demonstrated ability to adopt new tooling quickly.
• Working knowledge of Layer-7 routing reverse proxies or front-door/CDN-class infrastructure.
• Zero-trust and network security fundamentals segmentation identity-based authorization mutual TLS and policy enforcement.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Exchange Azure infrastructure or other large multi-tenant platforms helpful but not required; the platform specifics can be learned.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

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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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