Principal Group Engineering Manager
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
The Office Team powers the shared components and experiences across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on various platforms. We focus on delivering best-in-class UX, enabling next-gen collaboration, and ensuring business-critical fundamentals - all while driving engagement for millions of users, and building New Office with Copilot and Agents as core engine for growth.
We at OPG are looking for creative and driven software engineers with passion for Web, Mobile, and/or full stack development to achieve our vision of redefining the future of office app on various platforms with AI enablement as core priority. As the Group Engineer Manager, you will require cross-function integration knowledge, strategic thinking, and superior inter-personal and communication skills. The role is responsible for the overall design and architecture of apps and around the existing landscape, as well as envisaging and enabling future state infrastructures that will support modern, intelligent services and user experiences, through technological innovation and building partnerships across the company.
As the Group Engineer Manager for OPG, you will be responsible for leading a team of ~50 talented, deeply experienced engineers in delivering shared functionalities across platforms. You will collaborate closely with other OPG Group Engineering Managers to deliver ambitious, high-quality, and coherent experiences across the product constellation. You will sustain and support a long history of in-market versions and experiences and drive innovation in our internal and external systems to keep OPG thriving for many decades to come. If you’re interested in working in a startup-like environment with a unique opportunity to make an impact on core productivity apps like Word, Excel or PowerPoint, then we’d love to hear from you. In this position, you will lead a team that seeks challenges, loves learning, and values teamwork. You will collaborate with team members and partners to build resilient, scalable applications using the latest technologies in a dynamic and agile environment, and have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and work on high-business impact areas. If you're passionate about leading mobile innovation and making a real impact, let’s connect!
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Responsibilities
The most qualified candidates will have demonstrated effectiveness in many of the following skills and ability to develop/grow in-role.
- Management excellence: You have a proven track record managing people, creating an environment for success, where people are Thriving; where everyone can be their authentic self and do their best work. You have a proven track record being effective at core manager priorities: generating energy, creating clarity, and delivering success.
- People first: You care deeply about your team members and their professional growth. You foster a culture of trust, respect, and feedback. You empower your team to make decisions and take ownership of their work. You model our core values, engineering and manager excellence. You are passionate about growing your team through mentorship, coaching, and a growth mindset.
- Create clarity: You are effective at tackling highly ambiguous situations, synthesizing the critical requirements and priorities, then working with your team to translate this into action. You can manage and cultivate multiple priorities/missions concurrently including when they may be in direct conflict with one another. You are effective at reading-in your peers and LT on necessary context, ensuring everyone always understands “why” and incorporating perspectives from others into your decision-making processes.
- Livesite first culture: As a full stack team the team works in a very passionate livesite first culture. You need to passionate about livesite culture and drive it through the team and also model the right behaviors.
- Learning: You are always curious and eager to learn new things. You embrace change and adapt quickly to new situations. You encourage your team to experiment, learn from failures, and share best practices.
- Technical acumen: You have a solid background in software engineering, with experience in large scale full stack code. You have a demonstrated record of building a deep understanding of products and managing architecture. You are experienced in helping define, set, and refine the overall technical direction of the product while empowering your managers and feature crews to own specific decisions and details.
- Strategic thinking and effective execution: You have a clear vision and strategy for the WXP product and how it fits into the broader productivity ecosystem. You prioritize and align your team's goals and deliverables with the business objectives and customer needs. You can build understanding of the massive complexity of the WXP product today and identify paths forward for delivering innovative value for customers. You are effective at supporting your team to build actionable and incremental plans that mitigate risks and deliver incremental and predictable progress towards your ambitious objectives.
- Data-informed mindset: You use data and metrics to measure the impact and effectiveness of your team's work. You identify gaps in our product data and proactively drive filling them, working without borders to achieve the right result. You make data-driven decisions and communicate them clearly and convincingly. You use data to identify opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Stewardship: You are responsible for the quality and performance of the WXP product. You actively engage in establishing the best engineering practices and standards and ensure that your team and all contributors to WXP follow them. You monitor and address any issues or risks that may impact the product or the team.
- Tactical disruption and innovation: You are dedicated to progress in the WXP product and the productivity domain, always believing that we can do and be more than we are today. You leverage the latest technologies and trends to enhance the product and the user experience. You inspire your team and other engineers to explore new possibilities and solutions. You hold a profound appreciation for the contributions of your predecessors, strive to understand the reasons behind current practices, and courageously question if there are more effective methods available today. You challenge yourself and your team to think creatively and innovatively.
- You drive initiatives that have a positive impact on the product, the team, and the organization. You are recognized as a leader who is constantly pushing for us to evolve the state of the art of our tools, processes, and systems.
- Results oriented: You are always focused on and striving towards outcomes over activity. You are deeply aware of the goals your team is trying to achieve and ensure that the activities, environment, processes, etc. are in service of achieving them. You understand that headwinds, setbacks, and challenges are expected, and you have a history of persevering and overcoming them to deliver success.
- Effective partnerships: You will work across the WXP product constellation, the broader Office organization, and Microsoft. You will need to be effective at leading and collaborating across teams, organizations, time zones, and countries. You will need to be effective at influencing with and without authority and rallying people towards a common goal.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering leadership experience.
- 15+ years of software development experience building commercial grade software, including experience in large scale, high availability services and experiences.
- 10+ years of experience in product and people leadership, including people management.
- 15+ years industry experience building, shipping, and sustaining full stack products.
- Solid understanding of Web architecture, UI frameworks, and performance tuning.
- Experience with native code integration (JNI) and memory management.
- Fast learner with good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Solid in analytical problem solving and good fundamentals in CS.
- Passion for learning new skills with the ability to thrive in a feedback-driven environment.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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