Principal Group Engineering Manager

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: June 7, 2021

Job Description:

Microsoft Excel is one of the best-known software products on the planet--there are hundreds of millions of people across the globe using Excel every day to store, transform, analyze, visualize, share, and collaborate around their data. The world is producing and storing more data than ever before and now we have a new opportunity for a leader to join our engineering team and have a positive impact on how people experience their data. With Excel your work can directly impact someone's ability to understand their businesses, optimize processes, unlock insights from any amount of data and unlock entirely new scenarios for spreadsheet use.

The Excel team is looking for a Group Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for bringing forward our Collaboration experience through constant innovation, design and implementing state of the art advanced communication protocols for distributed computing. Collaboration is a critical part of the modern usage experience for productivity applications and Excel has been rapidly improving and iterating to meet growing customer needs. This is a role with rich and varied customer scenarios to satisfy as well as complex engineering challenges to meet in both client software and backend services. Your team will be driven by a combination of telemetry-based metrics and deep customer connection and will partner closely with design and program management to optimize for user success.

In Excel, collaboration is not just something we build, it's also how we work. We highly value the ability to work together as a team, share resources and knowledge, and focus on the most important outcomes for the Excel business. We are looking for a leader to partner with us to continue to shape our culture and work with us to help all of our customers achieve more.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Is passionate about building great software to be used by everyone.
• Cares deeply about team culture and creating a friendly and helpful engineering team within the larger Office organization. Skilled in attracting and retaining great talent.
• Model and foster the Microsoft Values and is an active participant in our diversity and inclusion efforts.
• Is excited about collaborating with other members of the Excel Leadership teams.
• Brings a positive attitude and looks to drive constant improvement in how we work.
• Cares about our customers and creating delightful and accessible end-to-end experiences.
• Can drive strategic decisions to influence the future direction of the product.
• 2+ years experience managing other people managers

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Engineering Management
• 10+ years of experience building software and managing highly complex services and teams
• Exceptional management skills with experience collaborating across teams and inspiring engineering talent

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

As a Group Engineering Manager of the team, you will be responsible for the following:

• Driving the strategy, vision, and execution for the team in collaboration with the Excel Leadership team - compromised of engineering, design and program management leaders.
• Partner with others - internally and externally - to deliver consistent experiences and customer success across Excel endpoints from Microsoft
• Coach team leaders and engineers within the team
• Actively shape and drive a flexible, diverse, and inclusive culture where everyone is enabled to be at their best
• Be an active member of the OXO Leadership Team, driving success across platforms and multiple Office products and services.

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