Product Manager

Azure Networking operates one of the largest networks in the world! Our Application Delivery product suite comprises of Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN), Azure Front Door, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) products, focused on solving performance, reliability and scale needs for the largest internal Microsoft assets like Bing, LinkedIn, Azure as well as large enterprise customers.

Our mission is to empower our customers to run their mission critical applications across multiple geographies and data centers with low latency, high scalability, high availability and best in class security.

With 200+ points of presence in 100+ metros, we operate a globally distributed application delivery platform. You can make an immediate impact and delight customers.

As a Product Manager in the Azure Front Door team, you will work with cross functional teams to shape the future of the product.

You will analyze competitive landscape, prioritize critical features, define customer/technical requirements and scope to enhance our product offerings.

You will work with engineering to ensure we deliver our solutions on-time, with the highest quality, resiliency, telemetry and scalability to effectively deliver demands from the largest Azure customers.

You will manage mission critical projects which will define how we route traffic at the rate of millions or requests per second destined across thousands of servers across the globe.

This opportunity will allow you to learn deeply about large distributed system architecture, develop expertise in global scale acceleration and security, and accelerate your career growth. This is a flexible work opportunity allowing you to fully work from a remote location.

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.

Responsibilities

 

  • You will learn to understand one or more success criteria of a feature. You’ll also help identify short-term investment opportunities and help engage partner support for a feature.
  • You will develop the ability to define a feature and will assist others in facilitating usability reviews with customers. You’ll understand how your own feature integrates with the general roadmap, and will coordinate with others to identify problems through scenario walkthroughs.
  • You will assist Product Managers by helping build marketing, roll-out plans, and customer support plans. You’ll also promote the feature you worked on and present at small events.
  • You will help others collect performance metrics and form hypotheses to incrementally improve product development in specific areas. You’ll also learn to manage customer communities and help build trust with targeted customers.

Other

 

  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

 

  • Bachelor’s Degree
    • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

 

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  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications

 

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 1+ year(s) of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • 1 year of industry experience with product suites from one of the cloud service providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform or other large, distributed platforms.
  • Proficiency in working with content delivery networks, load balancers or application security products like WAF, Firewall, DDoS protection.
  • Proficient in communications skills, critical thinking, and hands on troubleshooting capabilities.
  • Comfortable with complexity and ability to generate clarity in a highly ambiguous environment.