Develop and execute product lines based on design intent, manage sample tracking and communication with cross-functional teams, and prepare for milestone meetings while ensuring alignment with margin goals and product aesthetics.

• Own the domain roadmap with a clear point of view on what to solve and why, connecting client impact and SMG's goals into a prioritized, outcomes-driven plan. • Leverages data to inform roadmap decisions, identify opportunities, and communicate prioritization rationale clearly to stakeholders. • Break complex problems into MVPs and now, next, later sequencing that delivers early value and continued progression over time. • Champion data as a product and understands how to make complex data actionable for clients. • Define the success metrics that matter and use them to guide iteration and demonstrate value. • Lead discovery through client interviews, usability tests, and behavioral analytics to surface validated problems worth solving. • Produce clear epics, requirements, and user stories that give Engineering, Design, and Data Science the context they need to deliver with quality and minimal rework.

Overview Independently leverages AI to identify customer needs and market opportunities across portfolios. Performs research and competitive analysis, and ensures product-market fit. Owns the roadmap and priorities, aligning customer needs with development. Manages user feedback and telemetry to refine product strategies. Drives investment opportunities and aligns strategies with those goals. Ensures communication and alignment with partners on product strategy. Acts as a primary interface for product advocacy and tracking metrics for improvement. Builds customer engagement for efficient feedback collection. 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 - Defined and prioritized AI‑first product strategy and investments across multiple feature areas, translating customer, market, and business insights into vision memos, roadmaps, epics, and OKR‑aligned delivery plans. - Owned end‑to‑end roadmap execution by balancing tradeoffs with engineering, adapting to new inputs, and ensuring features met quality, security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and ethical standards. - Drove early validation and scalable delivery through golden configurations, scenario walkthroughs, MVPs, and AI‑assisted prototyping; incorporated customer previews, telemetry, and synthetic feedback to refine positioning and feature value pre‑launch. - Measured and improved business and AI performance by defining KPIs and AI‑specific metrics, partnering with engineering and data science on compliant telemetry, running experiments, and optimizing adoption, reliability, and COGS. - Built trusted customer engagement loops via AI‑enabled communities, support channels, and feedback systems, translating real‑time insights into roadmap and experience improvements. - Led lifecycle decisions including deprecations, using data‑ and AI‑driven analysis to articulate tradeoffs, align stakeholders, coordinate customer messaging, and ensure smooth transitions. Qualifications Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree AND extensive experience in product/service/program management or software development - OR equivalent experience. - Experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework). - Extensive experience in improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn). - Extensive experience in disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). - Extensive Computer networking experience Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree AND extensive experience in product/service/program management or software development - OR equivalent experience. - Experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework). - Extensive experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn). - Extensive experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). Other 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. 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.

• Lead the end-to-end integration of external flight supply partners including airlines, aggregators, and GDS via high-performance connectivity APIs. • Translate complex commercial and technical requirements into clear product specifications for shopping, booking, and post-booking automation. • Prioritize and manage a high-velocity roadmap focused on improving integration quality, reducing time-to-market, and minimizing system defects. • Monitor and optimize core supply metrics such as price competitiveness, booking success rates, and API latency to ensure a seamless user experience. • Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable, stable backend solutions that align with internal platform standards. • Implement AI-native solutions for anomaly detection in pricing, automated issue handling, and partner data mapping. • Work closely with commercial and partner success teams to onboard new supply sources and resolve performance gaps in availability or functionality. • Standardize integration processes to improve the scalability of partner onboarding and operational efficiency. • Communicate progress, technical hurdles, and performance results to cross-functional stakeholders across the business.