Senior Product Manager

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As a Senior Product Manager in the M365 Copilot Platform Ecosystem team, you will drive the next wave of AI & Copilot productivity solutions (referred to as "Copilot Agents") built using the latest generative AI technology on M365 Copilot’s extensible platform. Working with the strategic enterprise customers and partners located in Japan and ANZ region, you will deliver high-quality, sticky and transformative Copilot agents. You will further collaborate with CXOs, Architects and developers form India Enterprise Customers to drive product-market fit for Copilot agents, grow adoption and deliver business outcomes. This engineering PM role is an excellent opportunity to don both a scenario and experience-focused product PM as well as an external-facing market PM (Ecosystem PM) hat – at the same time!

We are looking for self-driven, entrepreneurial program manager candidates who can operate in a fast-paced environment with high ability to influence without authority, perform rapid exploration, high sense of ownership and bias for execution. You will have the opportunity to own and drive the vision, strategy and product roadmap for multiple customer engagements with a responsibility for partner and customer impact, developer experience, growth strategy and business model to support the 0 to 1 phase of growth for the M365 Copilot platform in the Enterprise.

The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable dealing with the ambiguity that comes with seeing partnerships across two organizations, is able to take both a business- and user- focused approach to defining goals, driving executive alignment, defining a product roadmap and engagement timelines before leading with a technical mindset to work both with internal M365 Copilot platform feature crews and with external customer stakeholders and developers building on our platform.

We operate in an extremely fast-paced environment with rapid exploration, iteration and execution, as we continue to develop M365 Copilot extensibility platform to fundamentally transform how people and companies work using the power of generative AI. Your colleagues will be among the best in the industry, and they share an intense passion for customer and partner success. Even while working hard, we have a great sense of humor and love to infuse that personality into our product. Since this is a partner/customer-facing role, travel from time to time within and outside the base location, is to be expected. We believe that we are rewiring productivity for the next 30 years! If you love taking on challenges and delivering nonlinear impact in a fast-paced environment, we want to speak with you!

Our mission is to build a premier developer platform and agent ecosystem for Microsoft 365 Copilot. We collaborate with strategic ISVs and enterprises globally to drive innovation and deliver exceptional solutions.
Our team also oversees the Microsoft Teams platform ecosystem, which includes Collaborative Apps, core platform capabilities, Calling, Meetings, and Copilot in Teams. We are dedicated to enhancing the Teams experience and empowering users with cutting-edge tools and features.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Previous experience with proven success in working on commercial SaaS external partnerships and/or customer-facing engagements.
• Previous experience working with web and mobile technologies, cloud services architecture and operations at scale, or other highly technical areas.
• Proven ability to build data-driven product experiences, define metrics and use analytics to derive insights to arrive at product & growth decisions.
• The ability to wear many hats and speak many language – from business to product to design to technical – learn quickly and change direction when needed.
• The ability to think creatively and critically about product features and user scenarios in the enterprise space.
• Demonstrated ability of very strong product thinking and a growth mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, critique, and recommend improvements on software user experiences and interface design.
• Strong project management, growth hacking, leadership and cross-group collaboration skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills in both Japanese and English through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.
• Experience presenting to senior product/IT management, technical product/IT staff and end users; able to pivot quickly and adapt messaging to suit a range of audience technical levels and requirements.
• Ability to hold technical discussions, go deep in technical areas, when required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience driving generative AI-based solutions (RAG, GPT, LLM) and general awareness of the rapidly-evolving AI, especially generative AI landscape.
• Hands-on experience or solid familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack is preferred (M365 Copilot extensions, Azure OpenAI, Graph Connectors, Microsoft Teams extensibility platform, etc.).
• Innate curiosity and ability to self-start in an ambiguous, highly autonomous and rapidly-changing startup environment.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically on the feet.

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• Work with our most strategic customers across executives, architects and developers from Japan and ANZ Enterprise Market with focus on specific industry verticals including Financial Services and telecommunications.
• Act as a credible point of contact for customers by providing consistent and relevant product guidance for M365 Copilot platform, Identify potential customer scenarios, engagement opportunities to help drive mindshare and usage of M365 Copilot Platform.
• Explore the customer problem space and key requirements, pitch the potential of generative AI to transform business processes, lead envisioning and UX through with developers to build, ship and adopt Copilot-extending solutions into production to drive usage.
• Drive key product insights and customer plus developer ecosystem signals coming straight from the market to shape the future of the M365 Copilot and our AI extensibility stack inside Microsoft Copilot app, Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft365.com and other host products.
• Get exposure to diverse scenarios working alongside customers & partners using M365 Copilot.
• Bring voice of developer and voice of customer back to the platform feature crew and help drive backlog prioritization, envisioning and spec’ing of new, innovative extensibility features, informed by market feedback.
• Collaborate extensively with our global team of customer experience product managers to share best practices, learnings and bring the same back to in region customer engagements.
• Serve as an expert on M365 Copilot platform/Microsoft Teams AI Platform capabilities; collaborate closely with peers, external partners, and customers to train, advise, and guide on technical capabilities, solution design, and platform strategy.
• Develop and drive depth and scale engagement programs to strengthen the ecosystem in-market in close partnership with sales and customer success teams in region.
• Work with strategic customers to drive adoption and understand feedback 3rd party built (global and regional ISV built) Copilot Agents and Connectors can further invest into enhancing the value and user experience.
• Unblock adoption, deployment and engagement of M365 Copilot extensibility platform and the Copilot Agents for strategic customers.
• Ensure success for the developer and customer at each stage of the funnel – both selectively and at scale.
• Research, contextualize, and evangelize broader solution and technology trends and opportunities to drive longer-term investments and product shifts.