About the position
Do you want to be a critical member of the core infrastructure team powering the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era? Are you passionate about data storage, large scale distributed systems, and working on bleeding edge technology at massive scale? The Azure Storage team delivers object storage (Azure Blob Storage), shared storage (Azure Files) and block storage (Azure Disks) to enable developers to build scalable, durable, and highly available cloud native and AI applications and persist data for their container and Virtual Machine (VM) workloads. These capabilities form both our public Azure Storage platform, as well as the foundation of service and product offerings across Microsoft including CoPilot, Office, Windows, Xbox and many more. Through this role, you can be part of a strategic team with Microsoft-wide and tech industry-wide impact. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager- Azure Storage to help drive critical components of the Object storage service. As a Senior Product Manager - Azure Storage, you will be responsible for understanding the needs and challenges of customers, driving the product vision and strategy, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver innovative and impactful features and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Understand the scenarios, workloads, and the deep technical storage requirements associated with our largest and most complex customers.
- Close the product feedback loop between customers and engineering.
- End-to-end ownership of feature and capability delivery while collaborating with engineering teams for design, planning, and delivery.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams for launch.
- Drive product adoption, growth, and retention through effective go-to-market strategies, product positioning, and messaging.
- Continuously measure/monitor product performance, usage, and feedback to iterate based on data-driven insights.
- Understand the storage market landscape, customer pain points, and competitive offerings.
- Define and evangelize the product vision, strategy, and value proposition to internal and external stakeholders, including customers, partners, analysts, and media.
- Provide direct engineering engagement with our largest and most complex storage customers.
- Produce relevant collateral, architecture examples, and best practice guides.
- Be the trusted advisor and subject matter expert (SME) to our customers for all questions related to Azure Blob Storage.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience with API platforms, integrations, or infrastructure products aimed at highly technical users.
- 3+ years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
Nice-to-haves
- 1+ year(s) of experience in large-scale data migration solutions, and storage protocols, clients, tools, application programming interfaces (API), libraries, and software development kits (SDKs).
- 1+ year(s) of proficiency in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) workload patterns including training, fine-tuning, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- 1+ year(s) of work with object storage services and platforms, as well as long-term retention and archiving solutions including tape.
- 1+ year(s) of proficiency with high-performance network-attached filers and filesystems, along with on-premises Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year.
- Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
