Senior Program Manager

“We have an unprecedented opportunity to run A/B tests with online users and innovate more quickly based on actual user response. Microsoft needs to shift the culture from planning the exact features to planning a set of possible features, and letting customers guide us”
-- Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect

 

Do you want to transform the way people build features in websites and online services? Do you want to have impact across multiple products and services such as Live, MSN, and Microsoft.com? Do you want to take an influential role in a strong senior team with huge growth potential? Do you want to be part of the Software+Services revolution? Then join the Microsoft Experimentation Platform team.

The Experimentation Platform enables product teams to radically improve their offerings using controlled experiments with live users. The platform allows testing new ideas quickly using the best-known scientific method for establishing causality between a feature and its effects: randomized experimental design. The methodology is to expose a percentage of users to a new variation of the website or service, measure the effect on the business, and run statistical tests to determine whether the difference in metrics were caused by the change. Experimentation encourages more agile design and release cycles and can transform the way websites and online services are developed. We have been involved in multiple experiments where radical ideas led the introduction of features worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.

The platform is to initially enable experimentation everywhere Microsoft has an online presence, whether website or services, then to take experimentation to the developer ecosystem.    As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for helping to shape the strategy, define the platform, and interact with our customers (both internal and later the development community). You will write specifications to be used by developers and testers, and help manage projects to completion in a timely manner with high quality.

Successful candidates should have a solid technology background, entrepreneurial spirit, and good cross-team interaction skills.

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