About this role

Overview <div>Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. </div><div>Within Microsoft Fabric, the Data Integration team enables organizations to connect, move, and shape data across their entire data estate. As data is generated across applications, devices, and systems, our integration capabilities make it easy to ingest, transform, and prepare data for downstream use. Fabric’s unified integration experience simplifies how customers bring data together, ensuring it is trusted, usable, and ready to power analytics, real-time insights, and AI scenarios. </div><div>Within Azure Data, the Azure Data Integration team helps customers connect, move, and prepare data to power analytics and AI. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to own a product area that simplifies complex data integration workflows for data engineers, developers, and enterprise customers. This role combines customer-centered product design with the technical challenges of building reliable, secure, and scalable cloud capabilities. You will work directly with customers and partner closely with Engineering, Design, and go-to-market teams to identify unmet needs, define priorities, and deliver improvements from discovery through adoption. You will bring clarity to ambiguous problems, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and measure success through customer outcomes and product impact. </div><div>We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. 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.</div> Responsibilities <div><ul><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Understand customer needs: Engage customers and partners, analyze product usage and market signals, and translate insights into clearly defined problems and prioritized opportunities. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Own product direction: Define the strategy and roadmap for your product area, connecting investments to customer needs, the broader Azure Data Integration strategy, and measurable business outcomes. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Drive end-to-end delivery: Develop product requirements, success criteria, and release plans. Partner with Engineering and Design to deliver capabilities from discovery and validation through launch and iteration. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Apply technical and product judgment: Make informed tradeoffs across customer value, usability, reliability, performance, cost, and delivery timelines. Incorporate accessibility, security, privacy, and compliance requirements throughout development. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Lead across functions: Build alignment with engineering teams and cross-functional partners, manage dependencies, and communicate priorities, decisions, and risks clearly. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Drive adoption and measurable impact: Partner with Marketing, Sales, Support, and customer-facing teams on launch readiness, documentation, and customer adoption. Define and monitor metrics to identify opportunities and improve product performance. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Explore AI-enabled improvements: Identify and validate opportunities to simplify data integration through AI-assisted experiences, applying responsible AI practices where relevant. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Embody our <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">culture</a> and <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">values</a>.</li></ul></div> Qualifications <div>Required/Minimum Qualifications:</div><div><ul><li style="font-size:10.0pt">Bachelor’s Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development, OR equivalent experience. </li></ul>Other Requirements: <div>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: <ul><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. </li></ul></div><div><div>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience owning a software product or significant feature area from problem definition and prioritization through delivery and post-launch improvement. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience using customer research, product telemetry, and quantitative analysis to inform product decisions and assess outcomes. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering and design teams, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and translate complex customer needs into actionable product requirements. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience aligning cross-functional stakeholders and driving decisions without direct authority, supported by clear written and verbal communication. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience with cloud data platforms, data integration, or data engineering, including concepts such as ETL/ELT, data pipelines, connectors, APIs, and orchestration. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Familiarity with Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, or comparable cloud data platforms. Experience building enterprise or developer-facing products that balance ease of use with reliability, scalability, security, and operational requirements. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">A track record of improving customer adoption, engagement, or product quality through measurable, iterative improvements. </li><li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Experience evaluating or delivering AI-assisted product experiences, with an understanding of quality evaluation, customer trust, and responsible AI considerations. </li></ul><div> <div>#azdat </div><div>#azuredata </div><div>#AzureData #DataMovement #DataIntegration #CloudData #SeniorProductManager #ProductManagement </div></div></div></div></div> Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>