Overview
Every request Microsoft 365 serves depends on the network beneath it — a global fabric spanning every geography Microsoft operates in, serving hundreds of millions of people. As Microsoft 365 grows and its infrastructure continues to move toward an Azure-native footprint, the network has to evolve with it: toward explicit, identity-aware connectivity, stronger regional isolation, and smaller failure domains.We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to own network connectivity strategy for the platform. That evolution is where you would start, and the charter continues well past it. You will shape long-term architecture direction with the teams that own and depend on the network.This is an AI-first product management role. AI is changing what the PM role consists of, and that change is accelerating. We expect someone who already works this way, or is eager to, and who brings the team with them.This role requires on-call for the platform. The network sits on the critical path for Microsoft 365, and product management here comes with real operational ownership — including occasional out-of-hours engagement during live incidents.This position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.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.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy for network connectivity and its evolution across the platform, and turn that direction into a roadmap teams can execute.
- Drive the move to an explicit, regionalized, policy-enforced connectivity model — including the migration sequencing, exception governance, and dependency burn-down that make it real.
- Take on high-impact problems across the charter, including scalability, resiliency, segmentation and isolation, capacity, latency, and platform transitions, and drive them to resolution.
- Work problems end-to-end: own the outcome even when every step of the work belongs to someone else.
- Model the tradeoffs before committing investment, and apply judgment where the model runs out.
- Weigh security, reliability, performance, and cost against each other, and prioritize multi-year platform investments with the teams that fund and build them.
- Keep failure domains contained and recovery paths intact.Participate in the on-call rotation — help scope and triage live incidents, and turn what you learn from them into root-cause fixes and roadmap priorities.
- Set success metrics, OKRs Objectives and Key Results, and KPIs key performance indicators, and shape investment priorities with leadership.
- Explain complex tradeoffs to executives in a way that leads to decisions.
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