Senior Product Manager - Xbox Data Analytics

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

18h

About The Position

On Team Xbox, we aspire to empower the world’s 3 billion gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want. Gaming, the largest and fastest growing category in media & entertainment, represents an important growth opportunity for Microsoft. We are leading with innovation, as highlighted by bringing Xbox to new devices with Cloud Gaming, bringing the Game Pass subscription to PC, and our recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard King creating exciting new possibilities for players.
The Xbox Platform team is home to the engineering work that makes this vision possible, building the developer tools and services that enable game creators to craft incredible experiences, the commerce systems that connect publishers with their audience and help gamers engage with their next favorite games, the platforms on which those games play at their best, and the experiences that turn every screen into an Xbox.
Do you want to influence product engineering teams to shape the next generation of data and analytics capabilities for Xbox? The Xbox Platform Data Intelligence team is looking for a highly-motivated Senior Product Manager with data platform experience. You will work closely with Product Managers across the Xbox Platform team in designing, implementing, and evolving innovative capabilities tailored to drive analytics and insights on engineering features. You will also partner with business stakeholders to understand data requirements to support business intelligence. Our capabilities influence data-driven decision making across Xbox Leadership, Finance, Business Planning, and Engineering teams. Collaboration, diversity, & self-direction are valued here. Expect to be given room and support to grow personally and professionally. Technically challenging projects, a healthy and high-caliber team, game-changing products for excited fans… don’t miss this rewarding opportunity!

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of data analytics or data science experience
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies, including relational databases, data warehouse, big data (e.g., Hadoop, Spark), orchestration/data pipeline tools, data lakes.
• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results
• Experience engineering new platforms requiring 3rd party integration, operational standards, and/or data insights
• Passion for large-scale distributed system engineering such as Azure or Xbox Live
• Ability to use judgement and rating schemes to turn qualitative information into quantitative estimates
• Proficiency in scenario analytics, mining for insights
• Experience with any or similar technologies: Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), Azure Cosmos DB, Reporting applications (Power BI, Tableau, Grafana), Applied LLM to local data stores
• Motivated to learn challenging technical domains
• Good interpersonal and communications (verbal and written) skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
• Drives Clarity - Can you take a complex system with multiple moving parts and be able to understand and explain the output succinctly?
• Collaborates - Partnering with others is at the heart of this role, so top-notch collaboration skills are essential. Great collaborators aren't just easy to work with - they also raise tough questions, deliver bad news with grace, challenge others as necessary and negotiate win/win solutions
• Self-starter who not only deals well with but thrives in ambiguity and has the ability to successfully execute across a complex environment to deliver a great product

Responsibilities

• Work within and across teams to solve complex technical challenges
• Develop engineering best-practices – continuously evaluate our processes to identify opportunities to improve, enhance, and automate existing and new capabilities with a fundamental understanding of the end-to-end scenario
• Drive new projects from idea inception to completion
• Balance technical and business requirements as input to establishing a solid roadmap
• Regularly engage with various levels of Gaming Leadership to provide roadmap/progress updates against commitments
• Measure the success and usage patterns of the product / feature at various levels as well as key engineering metrics
• Provide thought leadership, creation, and execution on data platform capabilities
• Grow & foster an inclusive, creative, high-performance team culture
• Coach & mentor other team members

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level