Senior Product Manager - Xbox Data Analytics

Microsoft Corporation • Redmond, WA • 5h ago

Overview

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!

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

Qualifications

Required Qualfication:

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

Preferred Qualfications:

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

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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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)

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