Program Manager II

Every day, the Shopping and Commerce Team brings an insatiable curiosity to
the table, challenging ourselves to reimagine what is and what can be
accomplished with our products and services. We are helping to shape the
future of shopping and commerce with the latest set of powerful consumer
services and solutions across a variety of formats to delight our customers.

Our team is looking for a successful, highly skilled and motivated Program
Manager to help evangelize features in our consumer facing Shopping &
Commerce solutions. Working closely with the rest of your development team you
will identify, design, prioritize and drive new features/capabilities on
innovative and novel opportunities for this business.

The ideal candidate for this job will have extensive prior experience working
in consumer orientated digital ecommerce/shopping applications for both web
and mobile and have a strong understanding of customer needs in the
retail/commerce/digital marketplace space. They will also have a strong pulse
on the latest innovations in the industry. They will conceptualize and
articulate future competitive innovations for their core product. They must be
able to work independently, remove barriers, embrace change and operate
effectively with ambiguity. They must have a high level of integrity and
consistently demonstrate a positive "can-do" attitude with the ability to
maintain the confidentiality of highly sensitive material.

Responsibilities

• Identify, design, prioritize and drive new features/capabilities creating break-through end-user experiences.


• Understand unexpressed user needs and turn those into product features.


• Coordinate and orchestrate product requirements.


• Collaborate with development, design, marketing and other partners to create features/products.


• Drive internal and external partner relationships that are critical to success.


• Work closely with a feature crew throughout the engineering lifecycle.


• Drive analysis and support of investment decisions and offer business perspective to influence key strategic decisions.


• Proactively identify issues that impede business group success and providing solutions/recommendations.

Qualifications

• BS/BA or equivalent technical ‎4-year degree (or relevant industry experience).


• At least ‎4 years' relevant experience in Product/Program Management delivering hardware, software and/or services.


• Demonstrated experience leading, influencing and driving collaboration.


• Demonstrated experience managing multiple partnership relationships simultaneously.


• Demonstrated ability to define organizational priorities, establish roadmaps, and sustain the process and artifacts.


• Excellent communicator who understands the value of different mediums.


• Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and to drive meaningful/rationalized results out of the ambiguity.


• Experience in/knowledge of ecommerce marketplaces is a strong plus.


• Experience in/knowledge of affiliate marketing/coupons/cashback is a plus.


• Experience in/knowledge of online media/Ads partner landscape is a plus.
  
  We Value:* *


• Strong communication skills including ability to distill information into concise communication materials, ability to tailor language and detail the audience, and use of multiple communication mediums to distribute information.


• Unrelenting focus on driving results through transformational partner experiences.


• Prior experience with retail development.


• A passion for continuous learning and applying learning in ways that drive business improvements.


• Ability to take strategic thinking to tactical execution.


• Keen ability to forge strong and positive relationships across organizations and levels.


• Consistent history of successfully leading complex, cross-organizational initiatives.


• Exceptional cross-organization coordination skills including ability to build comprehensive and compelling presentation and communication materials that span functions and groups.


• Strong project management skills and ability to lead multiple high-profile projects of varying timelines simultaneously.
  -Self- starter who can work independently and manage confidentiality.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color,
family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic
information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or
mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race,
religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other
characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We
also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories,
consistent with legal requirements.

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employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.