Product Operations Manager - Monetization, Copilot and Core Experiences
Microsoft · Mountain View, CA · 3 days ago
HybridOTHR$117k–$204k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Support annual, quarterly, and monthly planning processes.
- Translate leadership priorities into actionable plans, milestones, and delivery frameworks.
- Drive alignment across teams on objectives, dependencies, risks, and execution plans.
- Help maintain visibility into major initiatives, roadmaps, and commitments.
- Design and operate business reviews, planning forums, product reviews, and operating cadences.
- Ensure decisions, action items, and follow-up activities are tracked and executed.
- Continuously improve operational processes to increase velocity and clarity.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and partner organizations.
- Facilitate decision-making and drive resolution of dependencies and issues.
- Build trusted relationships that improve organizational effectiveness and execution consistency.
- Create executive-ready presentations, reviews, memos, and recommendations.
- Synthesize complex information into clear options and actionable insights.
- Communicate status, tradeoffs, risks, and priorities to senior stakeholders.
- Develop scalable tools, templates, governance models, and documentation.
- Improve organizational processes and reduce operational friction.
- Drive adoption of systems and best practices that improve transparency and accountability.
- Champion the use of AI technologies to improve organizational effectiveness, accelerate decision-making, reduce operational overhead, and scale business processes.
- Identify, evaluate, and implement AI-powered solutions across planning, reporting, knowledge management, communications, governance, and business operations.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Design teams to operationalize AI-first ways of working and drive adoption of emerging tools and capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 6+ years experience in Product Operations, Business Management, Program Management, Strategy, Consulting, Product Management, or related functions.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience leveraging AI, automation, or emerging technologies to improve business processes, operational efficiency, decision-making, and organizational effectiveness.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use data to influence decisions.
- Experience communicating effectively across written and verbal channels, including creating high-impact content and presentations for senior leaders.
- Experience leading initiatives in complex, fast-paced environments with evolving priorities and requirements.