Group Product Manager

Microsoft
United States, Nevada, Reno
6840 Sierra Center Parkway (Show on map)
Oct 16, 2025
OverviewAzure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft's history and is the foundation of Microsoft's commercial Cloud Services. We are a part of the Azure Core team with a main vision to deliver world-class cloud infrastructure that powers the world's workloads. The Azure Core organization spans software development, program and product management, and delivers the array of capabilities that serve as the foundation for customers' cloud experiences. The mission of Azure Core Engineering Systems team is to create delightful engineering systems and actionable insights that radically improve how Azure Core services are built, validated, deployed, and experienced by customers. Are you passionate about cloud computing, large scale distributed systems engineering problems and working on bleeding edge technology at massive scale? Are you structured and data driven in solving problems and driving improvements? Do you have passion for understanding customer challenges, identifying their needs, and delivering compelling solutions? We have an excellent opportunity for you to consider.As a Group Product Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly motivated Product Managers (PdM) that will work with cross-functional teams to shape the future of capacity management tools and services. You will have the opportunity to work with a diverse set of customers and technologies to directly influence the design of foundational building blocks for Azure. Your work influences the efficiency and scalability of services used by millions worldwide. You will gather requirements, validate with customers, and support the team in modeling how services communicate with the platform. You will also be responsible for tracking technical issues, finding solutions for problems as they arise, driving delivery of features to completion, lead technical design and architecture discussions, and deliver on a set of business and engineering targets including application telemetry, performance, reliability, resilience, security, and compliance. This opportunity will allow you to collaborate with multiple partner teams across functions and levels during various stages of the product lifecycle, to develop deep technical skills, to build data analysis and monitoring acumen, and to receive mentorship from an experienced and diverse product team.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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyimpactour culture every day. ResponsibilitiesCreate innovations and best practices that help teams define business impact across the organization and track success criteria for multiple feature areas. Act as a thought leader to help teams identify long-term opportunities and will ensure teams engage partners to garner support for those feature areas.Oversee teams and establish best practices to define a feature set and facilitate executive-level customer reviews. Define the strategy for teams owning the roadmap for multiple feature areas, and ensure teams maintain long-term, strategic direction. Oversee and provide best practices for teams to partner with Corporate Vice President's in other departments to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for technical needs in order to measurably improve product development industry-wide. You'll also provide leading expertise to ensure teams build trust and engagement with our customer community.Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.Ensures teams identify features to deprecate. Holds teams accountable for developing, articulating, and presenting reasoning and tradeoffs involved in deprecations. Ensures teams work with Public Relations/Product Marketing on messaging to customers. Ensures teams communicate change accurately and lead the vision for customer transition.Provides strategic direction to teams in identifying data-informed, long-term investment opportunities, evaluating tradeoffs, and prioritizing investments in consultation with cross divisional partners for feature(s)/feature areas (e.g., product, service). Ensures teams determine features or experiences to prioritize in the roadmap that will support achievement of success criteria and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).