Principal Product Manager

The Microsoft AI India team is looking for a Principal product manager to lead initiatives to drive the business growth. Specifically our team will focus on driving growth with Bing search to maximize the traffic and the revenue. 

About the Team
The Microsoft AI Bing Growth team is a diverse and inclusive team. We are looking for principal product manager candidates to help us realize our vision of making Web and AI work for users across the globe! We believe great products are built by healthy teams of diverse, customer obsessed individuals that trust each other. We are seeking a Principal product manager to join the team and will work in agile teams with smart, passionate engineers to bring products from inception to production. We strongly believe that collaboration enables better products, so you will work closely with Product Managers and other engineers to design solutions.

About the Role
Our team brings together capabilities in information retrieval, machine learning, user behavioral analysis, and metrics to improve search results, copilot, ads results, contents & feeds or Web browsers, relying on a culture of experimentation and continuous learning. Our goal is to build reliable web and AI products for consumers that helps Japanese customers find and consume what they are looking for faster and with confidence and trust. We aim to maximize the DAU and revenue.

In this role you will collaborate with engineers, data scientists, UX researchers, business development managers and, most importantly, external partners in local market to identify and execute the opportunities where we can expect both partner and our business growth. You will represent Microsoft and reach out to potential partners to propose the partnerships for our business. With ample scope for creativity and technical problem solving, and partner and customer-oriented mind set, you will also prioritize and execute experiments.

You will drive collaborations across Microsoft Products to integrate Bing and drive growth and also innovate new initiatives.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:

* Develop a strategy and differentiated value proposition
* Identify opportunities with local partners and execute
* Understand current user or partner needs by doing opportunity analysis in the problem domain
* Define goals and metrics for a success solution by thinking deeply through the scenarios
* Leverage your superb interpersonal skills to collaborate and execute with a diverse team
* Provide requirements to backend platform and frontend UX teams to scale the solution out
* Continuously consume the latest consumer trend in the market and use ideas from them to inspire and direct the team

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
• Experience in building and growing Search or AI products/apps
• Strong business and strategic sense to maximize product market fit
• Experience in building business partnerships by reaching out partners, pitching to partners and by closing the deals
• Great organizational, analytical, data science skills and intuition
• Customer empathy with incredible interpersonal, negotiating, and influencing skills
• Creative problem solver, strong collaboration skills, desire to lead
• Excellent academic track record
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Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience using data, analytics, and metrics. 
• Experience with end-user facing products and services, focus on UX. 
• A start up mentality to move and iterate quickly and aren’t afraid to cross responsibility expectations by coding or designing mockups
• Experience in online ads business and connection with key ads agencies
• Experience with Natural Language Processing and / or Computer Vision
• Coursework and demonstrated proficiency in AI/Machine Learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch, et. al.)
• Hands on experience in working with cloud, big data, machine learning, data science, and large-scale distributed systems

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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