Senior Product Manager
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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.
Within Microsoft Fabric, the Real-Time Intelligence team enables organizations to act on data as it happens. By combining real-time ingestion, streaming, event processing, and observability signals, the team delivers capabilities that help customers detect patterns, respond to events, and drive immediate action. These experiences are tightly integrated into Fabric to support modern applications and operational decision-making in real time.
The Fabric Eventstream team, within the Real-Time Intelligence, owns the connectivity and streaming backbone that moves data in motion across Fabric. Eventstream lets customers capture, transform, and route high-volume event data from sources such as Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, messaging brokers, and change data feeds into Fabric without writing code.
The Eventstream team is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategic growth of Eventstream, hardening our backend streaming capabilities, deepening interoperability with the broader messaging ecosystem, and reimagining the user experience for the age of AI. This role is uniquely positioned for someone who is technically deep in the messaging and streaming space and energized by shaping both the platform's engine and the experiences customers touch every day.
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Responsibilities
- Analyze customer and market signals across the messaging and streaming space using quantitative telemetry, qualitative feedback, competitive analysis, and AI-driven trend and sentiment evaluation to form hypotheses, identify unmet customer needs, and prioritize opportunities for Fabric Eventstream.
- Own and drive the strategy, and roadmap, defining short and long-term investment priorities, translating them into user stories and scenarios, and aligning the plan with OKRs and KPIs such as engagement, usage, adoption, and retention.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and research to define the feature set and shepherd capabilities from private preview to public preview to general availability, hardening backend streaming capabilities and interoperability with Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, and messaging brokers.
- Make AI a core differentiator by defining and shipping AI-assisted experiences, building MVPs and proofs of concept, and setting success metrics (e.g., relevance, quality) that improve the Eventstream user experience.
- Build trust with customers and partners through direct engagements, preview programs, and listening systems; synthesize feedback and product telemetry into a positive, easy-to-adopt experience and productive courses of action.
- Represent Eventstream to the field, partners, analysts, and customers through demos, blogs, videos, conference presentations, and Executive Briefing Center sessions, partnering with Product Marketing on go-to-market content and launch plans.
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years’ experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional 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:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years’ experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years’ experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (example: design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
- 4+ years’ experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (example: growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
- 4+ years’ experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (example: competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
- Demonstrated experience with Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, messaging brokers, or other similar streaming technologies.
- Demonstrated technical depth in messaging, event streaming, or real-time data processing systems.
- At least 2 years’ experience with Azure or other cloud platforms.
- Experience defining and shipping user experiences, including AI-assisted or low-code experiences.
- Proficient communication and technical storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt messaging across technologies and audiences and to engage others with data, customer scenarios, and product narratives.
- Ability to build and maintain positive business relationships with customers, partners, and cross-functional stakeholders, and to reach collaborative, mutually beneficial agreements.
- Familiarity with Microsoft products and services sufficient to participate in technical conversations with customers and engineering partners.
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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.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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