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Overview Help us build the Excel you wish you had as a finance professional. AI is changing how finance work gets done, and our team has a clear goal: make Excel and Copilot more useful and reliable for finance, so people can spend less time on routine work and more time on decisions that need their judgment. We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager with a background in finance who is ready to bring that experience and judgment into a full-time product management role.You and your expertise will help decide what we build and what good looks like, working with customers and teams across Excel, Office, and Microsoft. 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 Build reliable finance products • Work with a small product team, building and testing prototypes with customers in their real finance workflows. Identify patterns that can help other customers and partner with engineering, design and product teams to turn those patterns and lessons into reusable capabilities. • Review AI-generated spreadsheets and artefacts for financial correctness, sound assumptions and usability. Turn your judgment into reference examples, test cases and scoring criteria, and build reusable AI workflows that account for realistic data, exceptions and financial controls. • Own finance-specific quality criteria and drive alignment with customers and product teams. Check that automated tests agree with expert review and catch material errors. Define the evidence and human checks needed, and sign off on finance readiness for customer validation. • Use customer feedback and test results to define clear product requirements and improve product quality. Measure and drive progress against agreed baselines, including accuracy, review effort and time saved. Tell credible customer stories • Own the finance scenarios and financial accuracy of demos and customer stories. Partner with Product and Marketing to clearly explain what customers can accomplish, supported by measured results and customer validation. Build finance expertise across the team • Build and curate a practical Finance learning path using real-world workflows and hands-on examples to help product managers, engineers, and designers apply financial judgment to the products they build. • Help build a network of practicing finance experts to validate priority workflows, review evaluation criteria and provide feedback on prototypes, drawing on deeper specialization when needed. Other • Embody our culture and values. Qualifications Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development • OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: • Hands-on experience building and reviewing financial models or owning and improving recurring finance processes — Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), accounting, tax, corporate finance or finance technology. • Experience with Excel and modeling skills, with an understanding of how source data becomes models, reports, insights and decisions. • Sound judgment to spot material errors, challenge assumptions and assess whether an AI-generated output is fit for its intended business use. • Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex concepts and financial reasoning to others. • Curiosity about AI tools and methods, and the willingness to learn them quickly. • Experience automating recurring finance workflows using Excel macros, VBA, Office Scripts or similar tools. • Experience taking an open-ended problem through to a practical solution and improving it through feedback. • Experience working across teams to understand stakeholder needs, prioritize improvements, and deliver measurable results in finance workflows. #OPG #OPGHiring Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com 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.

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Must-haves

Build reliable finance products
Use customer feedback and test results to define clear product requirements and improve product quality. Measure and drive progress against agreed baselines, including accuracy, review effort and time saved.
Tell credible customer stories
Own the finance scenarios and financial accuracy of demos and customer stories. Partner with Product and Marketing to clearly explain what customers can accomplish, supported by measured results and customer validation.
Build finance expertise across the team
Build and curate a practical Finance learning path using real-world workflows and hands-on examples to help product managers, engineers, and designers apply financial judgment to the products they build.
Help build a network of practicing finance experts to validate priority workflows, review evaluation criteria and provide feedback on prototypes, drawing on deeper specialization when needed.
Embody our culture and values.
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development • OR equivalent experience.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Nice-to-haves

Hands-on experience building and reviewing financial models or owning and improving recurring finance processes — Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), accounting, tax, corporate finance or finance technology.
Experience with Excel and modeling skills, with an understanding of how source data becomes models, reports, insights and decisions.
Sound judgment to spot material errors, challenge assumptions and assess whether an AI-generated output is fit for its intended business use.
Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain complex concepts and financial reasoning to others.
Curiosity about AI tools and methods, and the willingness to learn them quickly.
Experience automating recurring finance workflows using Excel macros, VBA, Office Scripts or similar tools.
Experience taking an open-ended problem through to a practical solution and improving it through feedback.
Experience working across teams to understand stakeholder needs, prioritize improvements, and deliver measurable results in finance workflows.
#OPG #OPGHiring
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