A key part of our mission is to empower developers to build a better world powered by AI Speech Services (PaaS). We are the Cognitive Services Speech team which infuses the benefits of Speech AI into every aspect of our everyday life. We do so responsibly, ethically, with obsession of our customers’ needs, and with a focus to grow Microsoft’s substantial AI platform and business.
At Microsoft, we are investing immensely in this area. We are looking for an experienced Program Manager who is highly motivated and passionate about the speech recognition or the text to speech technology and their applications. In this role, you will be responsible for driving speech technology, processes, apps to the next level by working closely with teams across Microsoft to ensure the speech maximizes its full capability and impact to the world.
Responsibilities
In this role, we’re looking for an individual to join our Speech PM team. We span the world of Speech Services (Speech recognition, Custom Speech, Speaker Verification, Text to Speech, Speech Translation). As a PM on this team, you will be working with engineers and applied researchers to bring new services to market, iterate on AI quality and features, and engage with customers to refine requirements and drive adoption.
In this role, we’re looking for an individual to join our Speech PM team. We span the world of Speech Services (Speech recognition, Custom Speech, Speaker Verification, Text to Speech, Speech Translation). As a PM on this team, you will be working with engineers and applied researchers to bring new services to market, iterate on AI quality and features, and engage with customers to refine requirements and drive adoption.
- Drive our product vision across a full stack of collaborators: from customers to engineers
- Plan work face to face with engineers to prioritize roadmap, deliver features and solve problems in innovative and valuable ways
- Translate customer feedback and strategic product goals into a plan for engineering execution
- Design new metrics for new speech scenario, it includes define the metrics, design the calculation methodology or human judge task, prepare the test data, execute the run and the generate the report with insights
- Partnering closely with the engineering teams to deliver the best speech quality
- Ensure that internal teams and leadership are coordinated and feel confident, informed and efficient
Qualifications
- 5+ years of Program or Product Management experience, or equivalent
- 5+ experience working through a complete product cycle (from initial design through post-release support) to drive clear engineering and product outcomes
- Proven experience, or deep interest, in Speech/NLP or Machine Learning is preferred
- Strong cross-group collaboration skills both internally and externally
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Superb presentation and storytelling skills