Job Category: Software Engineering: User Experience
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 849544-121864
Division: Microsoft Office Division
Description
Are you curious about how consumers and businesses use technology in their daily lives? Do you want to play an important role in shaping Microsoft’s productivity vision and product roadmap for consumers and businesses? If yes, we want you to consider a role within Microsoft that offers a wide scope of strategic influence and executive exposure. The Customer, Compete, and Industry research team in the Microsoft Office Division (MOD) drives market research excellence and innovation in order to infuse product development with differentiated possibilities by understanding emerging trends based on customer habits, competitive strategy and overall market trends. We are looking for a market researcher to help drive the Microsoft Office business forward. This role is responsible for delivering high-impact, actionable industry insights to support Office engineering. Success in this position means efficiently analyzing multiple data sources such as market research datasets, competitive strategy analysis, and market forecasts with an eye to synthesizing the story and reporting out emerging industry trends. This work will result in deep industry/technology trend intuition, and rich competitive landscape knowledge - all of which is distilled into thought-leading and impactful product recommendations that R&D uses to deliver products that delight consumers and drive our business forward.
We work in a culture where all our team members value being:
- Innovative: trying new things, leading the way
- Inclusive: making other great, transparency
- Energetic: having fun, following your passion, making things happen
- Improving: learning from experience and fostering curiosity
- Winning: sticking at things for the long term, living and breathing the competition
Key responsibilities include the following:
- Facility with SPSS and/or SAS and Excel datasets
- Analyze various datasets (e.g., primary research, web data, market forecasts) looking for industry trends
- Provide thought leadership by identifying and recommending the industry analytical plan that address short and long-term engineering objectives.
- Analyze market opportunities, emerging trends, and competitive moves to inform engineering decisions
- Drive strategic discussions with the engineering groups on their most critical business issues related to product development.
- Proactively and routinely share fact-based, forward-thinking market and consumer insights in the productivity software space.
- Collaborate with other research managers in the execution, analysis and presentation of insights to ensure a holistic understanding of the business issue.
- Develop great relationships with partner teams across MOD
- Work closely with R&D, marketing, and strategy stakeholders to deeply understand MOD’s business opportunities, capabilities, and challenges
- Mentor and being a good role model for other members of the team
- Lead cross-organizational v-teams to drive projects and decisions
Skills Needed
- A strategic thinker with demonstrated business acumen
- An effective storyteller
- Strong analytical skill
- Can draw out relevant business implications from a breadth of primary and secondary information sources
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and can deal with ambiguity
- Successful track record in interacting with senior business partners and executives
- Successful track record of working collaboratively with teams
Minimum Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA or related graduate degree is strongly preferred.
- 1 year of market research and / or strategy consulting work experience
- 2 years of practical experience using statistical and business tools, research methodologies (SPSS and/or SAS) and analytics.
- Experience from the technology industry is a strong plus, so is International previous trend and forecast
MOD:OFF
MOD:ENG
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Engineer, Research, Developer, Product Development, Consulting, Engineering, Technolog
y
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 849544-121864
Division: Microsoft Office Division
Description
Are you curious about how consumers and businesses use technology in their daily lives? Do you want to play an important role in shaping Microsoft’s productivity vision and product roadmap for consumers and businesses? If yes, we want you to consider a role within Microsoft that offers a wide scope of strategic influence and executive exposure. The Customer, Compete, and Industry research team in the Microsoft Office Division (MOD) drives market research excellence and innovation in order to infuse product development with differentiated possibilities by understanding emerging trends based on customer habits, competitive strategy and overall market trends. We are looking for a market researcher to help drive the Microsoft Office business forward. This role is responsible for delivering high-impact, actionable industry insights to support Office engineering. Success in this position means efficiently analyzing multiple data sources such as market research datasets, competitive strategy analysis, and market forecasts with an eye to synthesizing the story and reporting out emerging industry trends. This work will result in deep industry/technology trend intuition, and rich competitive landscape knowledge - all of which is distilled into thought-leading and impactful product recommendations that R&D uses to deliver products that delight consumers and drive our business forward.
We work in a culture where all our team members value being:
- Innovative: trying new things, leading the way
- Inclusive: making other great, transparency
- Energetic: having fun, following your passion, making things happen
- Improving: learning from experience and fostering curiosity
- Winning: sticking at things for the long term, living and breathing the competition
Key responsibilities include the following:
- Facility with SPSS and/or SAS and Excel datasets
- Analyze various datasets (e.g., primary research, web data, market forecasts) looking for industry trends
- Provide thought leadership by identifying and recommending the industry analytical plan that address short and long-term engineering objectives.
- Analyze market opportunities, emerging trends, and competitive moves to inform engineering decisions
- Drive strategic discussions with the engineering groups on their most critical business issues related to product development.
- Proactively and routinely share fact-based, forward-thinking market and consumer insights in the productivity software space.
- Collaborate with other research managers in the execution, analysis and presentation of insights to ensure a holistic understanding of the business issue.
- Develop great relationships with partner teams across MOD
- Work closely with R&D, marketing, and strategy stakeholders to deeply understand MOD’s business opportunities, capabilities, and challenges
- Mentor and being a good role model for other members of the team
- Lead cross-organizational v-teams to drive projects and decisions
Skills Needed
- A strategic thinker with demonstrated business acumen
- An effective storyteller
- Strong analytical skill
- Can draw out relevant business implications from a breadth of primary and secondary information sources
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Flexible and can deal with ambiguity
- Successful track record in interacting with senior business partners and executives
- Successful track record of working collaboratively with teams
Minimum Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA or related graduate degree is strongly preferred.
- 1 year of market research and / or strategy consulting work experience
- 2 years of practical experience using statistical and business tools, research methodologies (SPSS and/or SAS) and analytics.
- Experience from the technology industry is a strong plus, so is International previous trend and forecast
MOD:OFF
MOD:ENG
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Engineer, Research, Developer, Product Development, Consulting, Engineering, Technolog
y
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