Microsoft India Recruitment for IDC PM Engage Program at Hyderabad, Bangalore, Noida

Program Manager @Microsoft

• As the in-house advocate for the millions of people worldwide who use Microsoft products, you drive the vision, design, implementation and market success of next-generation software solutions.
• As the owner and advocate of your product components, some of the questions which you would be addressing through your role are:
• Who is the customer?
• What customer problem am I addressing?
• What product solution do I craft to address this gap?
• How do I deliver the best customer experience possible?
• Does the product solution meet the business need (revenue, brand, etc.)?
• How do I take the product from conceptualization to launch?
• How do I work with marketing, and various sales channels to drive adoption?

Roles & Responsibilities

• The role entails the following three distinct aspects
• Defining and executing product strategy and roadmap: Defining who the product is for, identifying the fundamental problem that we are solving, understanding the competition, and our core positioning w.r.t to the competition, identifying our approach to the market and partnerships.
• Building the Product: Lots of whiteboarding, storyboarding, sketching and designing, iterating with engineering on tradeoffs between priority/timelines/capabilities, partnering across teams in Microsoft to deliver the solution, performing usability studies, planning versions, legal, marketing, monetization plans etc.
• Connecting with the customer: Evangelizing the product through customer connect, being the ‘face’ of the product, experimentation, and data analysis, iterating on feedback and learnings.
• We have PM openings across our engineering groups.