Senior Product Manager - Microsoft Corporation

The **Microsoft Start Experiences** team is focused on bringing personalized, timely and relevant information from the web to a 1Billion+ users worldwide. We will achieve this mission through seamless integration into everyday experiences in the Microsoft ecosystem - Widgets in Windows 11, Windows 10 taskbar, Microsoft Edge New Tab Page, and MSN: bringing the web evermore closer to the user. Whole page optimization is fundamental to bring this vision to life and we are growing our Whole Page Optimization team to bolster our efforts. This team will accomplish this by applying recent major advances in the fields of Machine Learning at scale to multiple touch points across PC and Mobile over 300+ markets. This team will bring their expertise in the latest Machine Learning trends & Engineering architecture solutions to blend products and services from over 50+ teams in a unified feed experience. This will be the foundation that enables Microsoft Start products to build user profile modeling, translate that into insights and ML products, then to recommend users the right content. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to broaden our efforts for dynamic, personalized feed products to a global audience, in a fast paced, high scale, "whole page optimization" and building products & experiences that users love. In this role, you will use qualitative (customer feedbacks, user research, academic research) and quantitative data analysis to drive immediate and long-term improvements (data, relevance, UX, measurement) to both existing experience and identify opportunities for the future. You will closely work with designers, engineers, scientists, user research and broader cross-org teams across WebXT and Microsoft to build a plan and roadmap to evolve the experience and support our partners. You will also rely on your experience in enhancing existing UX & platform solutions at scale to be adopted by multiple products and teams across Microsoft. You will continuously learn about state-of-the-art machine learning and information retrieval. **Why work at WebXT** Inside Microsoft's Web Experiences Team **Responsibilities** The scope of responsibilities includes: + Understand current user needs and gaps by conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis. + Proactively identify and manage scenario backlog, including ensuring partner dependencies are delivered in a timely fashion. + Define and drive experimentation plans that ensure statistically meaningful conclusions are reached. + Partner with key internal and external partners to develop joint product plans, gather feedback, manage dependencies, and ensure customer success. + Keep pace with emerging standards in your feature area, and leverage learnings to improve our future product roadmap across desktop, mobile, and app categories. + Own your feature backlog with clarity, urgency, and accountability. + Actively drive and present product plans and reviews, demos, and competitive analyses with the team, partners, and executive leadership **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience. + 5+ years of experience preferably with using **data, analytics, and metrics** . **Preferred Qualifications:** + Experience with **end-user facing products** and services, focus on UX. + **Data analysis** experience with Excel, PowerBI, SQR, R, Python/Pandas, or other tools. + MS and PhD degree in Computer Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience. + Experience in building **large scale solutions** . + Good understanding of the basic concepts of **machine learning** (such as model training lifecycle, model evaluation using precision/recall/accuracy etc.). + Ability to wear many hats and learn quickly. + Project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills. + Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of organization, technical and non-technical. + Analytical aptitude and track record of problem solving and ability to think strategically. + Experience with A/B testing is a plus. 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. 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) . 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