Group Engineering Manager

The Experience plus Devices (E+D) Growth team is seeking Group Engineering Manager to help accelerate the adoption of Copilot and Microsoft 365. Our team is uniquely positioned at the strategic epicenter of E+D for revolutionizing the productivity business by delivering embedded experiences across the Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) that drive the growth of our company's cutting-edge generative AI solutions across the commercial and consumer spectrum. Our team tackles technical challenges across a diverse tech stack, with the solutions we deliver having a direct impact on the bottom line of the business. This role requires strategic and creative thinking, as well as a passion for building technical solutions that address customer needs. 

 
We are a modern engineering organization that embodies industry best practices in Product-Led Growth (PLG). We are data-informed, hypothesis-driven, and rigorous in measuring outcomes to ensure undeniable customer and business impact. We collaborate closely with industry-leading PMs, designers, data scientists, user researchers, and marketers to build deep customer insights that inform the design of experiences used by hundreds of millions of people every day. We partner with teams across the company to deliver world-class services, and we create experiences that connect with customers across Microsoft products. We play a direct role in driving business growth and framing our business value to end users and our vibrant community of fans.  We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us.
 
Building a successful team involves creating an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. We invest in the health of our team and take "how we work" as seriously as the impact we have on customers and the business. You don't need to know everything when you join our team; just bring your growth mindset and willingness to learn, and we will provide mentorship and career growth to help you succeed.

As a Group Engineering Manager you will play a critical role in driving the adoption and monetization of Microsoft 365 Copilot through Product-Led Growth methodologies. This role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of product development, user experience, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.

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.

• Proven track record of building & shipping large scale enterprise software products or highly available and reliable cloud services. 
• History of building solid relationships with product management and design at the working team and leadership level.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides team and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and act as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to directly manage a team of EMs and SWEs to achieve results, strategic thinking, and grow careers. 
• Experience at many layers of the tech stack (native, web, service, UX, model, data).
• Experience with existing M365 foundational technologies.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g.,. competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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