Are you a self-motivated and results-driven Senior Product Manager who is passionate about delivering new software capabilities in a modern, rapid cadence that delights customers, join Viva Learning team. Viva Learning is a learning platform that empowers enterprises and individuals to build a culture of learning through personal and social learning experiences while focusing on individual growth and upskilling needs.

Viva Learning is part of Employee Experience Platform (EXP) that empowers organizations to continuously improve workforce engagement and performance. The EXP team builds core Microsoft Viva experiences, including Viva Insights, Viva Glint, Viva Learning, Viva Pulse and shared user and IT experiences. We are also at the forefront of delivering AI powered innovation and lighting up exciting Copilot scenarios in Viva. Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth. 

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.

Your ideas, skills, and unique perspectives are vital in driving our products and culture forward. If you're eager to significantly impact employee engagement and learning experiences, we encourage you to apply!

Responsibilities

• Ability to learn, collect, examine, prioritize customer scenarios, product requirements, feedback, and help to set the OKRs, feature improvements, user stories, functional specifications through semester planning to ensure better product and customer and engineering outcomes.

• Create clarity in requirements, embrace agility, fend off scope creep, confirm development approaches and timelines, and support the team to build and deliver high quality and secure solutions on time. 

• Promote hypothesis-driven product development and data-driven decision making. 

• Define and analyze metrics to assess the success of products and communicate with all stakeholders. 

• Engage directly with customers and partners to integrate feedback and extrapolate customer benefit for improved product plans. 

• Collaborate with partner teams to deliver end-to-end systems and experiences wherever required.

• Works across all stages of product lifecycle from product definition, planning, release, modifications, maintenance, and feature deprecation.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of relevant experience delivering enterprise applications as a Program Manager/Product Manager out of total working experience.

• Ability to create structure from abstract ideas, take initial concepts to maturity.

• Have a sense of pride and personal accountability for end-to-end quality, completeness, and resulting user experience.

• Strong track record of not only individual excellence, but a demonstrated commitment to making others around them great.

• Outstanding cross-discipline and cross-team collaboration skills. Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical

• Knowledge of the enterprise learning domain is preferred.

• Problem solving - Ability to clearly understand problems, decompose them into smaller problems; and technical articulation skills so that it is easy for the team to collectively solve.  

• Ability to work both independently and collectively in a fun team environment with minimal supervision. 

• Good communication and stakeholder management skills 

• High capacity to learn and adapt to new technologies and engineering processes quickly.   

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .