Senior Product Manager - Xbox Platform
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 Experiences and Platforms 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 Cloud Gaming demand planning capabilities for Xbox? The Xbox Platform Team is looking for a highly-motivated Product Manager with experience in cloud-scale capacity planning. You will help create the strategy and deliver tactical execution of distributed and scalable cloud-based solutions to address interesting problems in our next-gen cloud-based gaming space. You will work closely with engineering and product management in designing, implementing, and evolving innovative capabilities critical in driving scale for Cloud Gaming. You will be responsible for developing and delivering the capacity plan needed to support the growth of Cloud Gaming, on time and on budget. Additionally, you will help define the processes and KPI’s for this area and drive projects to automate both deliverables. Our capabilities influence 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
- 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
- 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
- Grow & foster an inclusive, creative, high-performance team culture
- Coach & mentor other team members
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
