Principal Product Manager

Overview

The Kusto team builds Microsoft’s big data interactive analytics service – Fabric Real time Intelligence Eventhouse and Azure Data Explorer. The service is growing rapidly and is gaining traction with Microsoft’s top customers and partners. The service powers Microsoft big data interactive analytics products and is used extensively to operate many other Microsoft services and products. We are making the digital transformation happen for more and more businesses and organizations across the world, enabling and powering AI experiences.

Join the Kusto team and be part of empowering businesses all over the world to be more up to date, aware and efficient in a rapidly changing environment in ways that they could not imagine before.

We are looking for a highly motivated Product Manager with strong technical skills, customer orientation, analytical background and exceptional cross-group and cross-geo collaboration skills. In this role you will own and drive features of the core Kusto platform, engine and hosting environment, including the security stance, and areas in the language and control plane.

Responsibilities

Drive the platform security feature set and resiliency

Own and lead features areas in the Kusto platform control plane and compute engine

Own the ongoing relationship with few critical customers and partners

Collect and formulate the learning and patterns of multitenant real time analytics massive deployments to impact product strategy and direction.

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.

Qualifications

At least 5 years of experience in interactive big data systems on a global scale.
Experience in running, deploying, and operating Kusto based systems or similar.
Experience in building big data and algorithm-centric cloud systems.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proven presentation and evangelism capabilities
Preferred
B.Sc/BA, MSc./MA, degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline or equivalent.
Experience in communicating strategy and roadmaps
Experience in working closely with internal stakeholders.
Experience in working closely with large international companies and software firms.
Passion for technology and quality with a strong customer focus
Team player, confident and enthusiastic

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.