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Senior Project Manager, Consulting

2026-01-09

India, Karnataka, Bangalore +2 more

3 days / week in-office

<b>Overview</b><br><p>Microsoft Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) is a global organization hosting over 6,000 strategic sellers, industry and security experts, elite engineers, world-class data scientists and architects, consultants, and delivery specialists. Together with our partners, we help Microsoft’s most strategic customers worldwide to address their specific challenges and provide comprehensive and industry-specific solutions that meet their unique needs. ISD is at the forefront of innovation, driving value across the entirety of the customers’ digital and AI transformation journey through repeatable and customized cutting-edge solutions through strategic engagements with customers across the globe powered by Microsoft Cloud and AI.</p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div><div> </div></div><p>Project Manager (CPM) enables both Microsoft and Customer outcomes through orchestration of delivery teams. They govern either a single engagement or a portfolio of projects and are a key driver of the delivery lifecycle, using their executive expertise to remove barriers and deliver successful outcomes. The Consulting Project Manager is a key role in managing a successful engagement, maintaining portfolio health and leading a team of delivery professionals.</p><p> </p><p>Our team of Consulting Project Managers comprise an unusual mix of project/program management and consulting skills, along with a passion for technology. We are responsible for keeping the project team working on the highest priority tasks, removing risks and impediments, maintaining on track financials and leading communications with stakeholders and the end Customer. As a trusted advisor to our Customers, you will be responsible for the successful execution of one or more projects at a time, providing guidance, coaching, and project leadership. By mentoring and influencing, you will drive the highest quality and the strongest sense of Customer focus on each project, while helping to achieve both Customer satisfaction and Microsoft targets. We also play a key role in ensuring our business is empowered to make decisions and assess portfolio health, through accurate forecasting and project health status submissions.</p><p> </p><ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><ul><li>Deliver the project or solution as per the baseline scope, cost & schedule.</li><li>Maintain high team & customer satisfaction levels.</li><li>Ensure high quality delivery without escalations.</li><li>Manages project interdependencies, critical path, milestones, and deliverables to ensure successful implementation and rollout</li><li>Reports on program level status for the program team and delivery status to Executive stakeholders</li><li>Contribute towards Domain initiatives</li><li>Identifies and supports key program objectives, risks, and drivers and creates plans to manage these elements</li><li>Identifies scope change and leads efforts to develop, estimate, and communicate budget and schedule impacts</li><li>Track, manage, and report program financials – Identify risk to project budget and work with project teams to remediate</li><li>Participate in, facilitate post project, and phase reviews to cultivate a learning organization</li><li>Maintain Readiness through different training programs & certifications.</li><li>Manage partners & ensure good quality project delivery</li><li>Status reporting & managing executive communications</li><li>Manage project and practice health metrics</li><li>Maintain utilization levels in line with organization metrics</li><li>Work on pre-sale estimations / Change Requests </li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><div><div><p><strong>Other</strong> </p></div><ul><li><p>Embody our <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture&data=04%7c01%7closmit%40microsoft.com%7c27f2181d96804234953708d8f3b22d06%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1%7c0%7c637527293867872556%7cUnknown%7cTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7c1000&sdata=QnmEU%2BvawaPM5eEUL1FxWPmhizgKnDLFj6dlUTOWRB0%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">culture</a> and <a href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values&data=04%7c01%7closmit%40microsoft.com%7c27f2181d96804234953708d8f3b22d06%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1%7c0%7c637527293867882502%7cUnknown%7cTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7c1000&sdata=p3lkWaIXzH3t9t1hS9bOfKhtDFWPj6gi8zZU94LWRso%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">values</a> </p></li></ul></div><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><div><p><strong>Required/Minimum Qualifications </strong></p></div><div><ul><li><p>A graduate with 12+ years of experience with at least 4+ years of Project Management experience.</p></li><li><p>Excellent communication skills are required.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated management of medium to large complexity projects involving employees, customers, and partners. Ability to work with different Microsoft internal stakeholders</p><p> </p></li></ul><div><p> </p></div><div><p><strong>Additional or Preferred Qualifications </strong></p></div></div><ul><li><p>Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. </p></li><li><p>4+ years financial management experience. </p></li><li><p>Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Accommodation request form</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.</p> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>

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Software Engineer II

2026-01-08

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

4 days / week in-office

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Product Designer II

2026-01-08

India, Karnataka, Bangalore

3 days / week in-office

<b>Overview</b><br><div dir="ltr"><p>Microsoft Calendar – Time and Places is a core team within Microsoft 365, focused on redefining how people manage time, coordinate schedules, and connect across organizations. By deeply integrating AI through Microsoft Copilot, the team is transforming the calendar experience into a proactive, intelligent assistant that helps users plan smarter, reduce friction, and stay focused. Calendar Copilot features offer intelligent suggestions, meeting prep, follow-ups, and time protection—making scheduling not just easier, but more meaningful. As Microsoft continues to evolve the future of work, the Time and Places team plays a pivotal role in embedding AI into everyday routines, ensuring that time is spent with intention and impact. In essence, this team is not just building a calendar—they’re shaping the rhythm of modern work.</p><p>As a designer in the team, you will define specific product needs based on user insights to ideate and define solutions that meet user needs. You will create and develop design concepts and specifications that optimize the emotional and functional experience of a product. You will focus on end-to-end user experiences, empathizing and balancing experiences with business and technical tradeoffs. This opportunity will allow you accelerate your career growth, deepen your user-centered design, design leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills. <br><br>As a <strong>Product Designer II</strong>, you bring curiosity, thoughtful questioning, and the ability to challenge assumptions while staying grounded in existing systems and patterns. You balance learning with contributing, proactively exploring new design possibilities while integrating them responsibly within the product ecosystem. With AI reshaping design practice, you are expected to move beyond basic adoption and actively influence how AI integrates into workflows—designing human-AI interactions that emphasize trust, transparency, and responsible use.</p><p>You will produce visual designs from concept through delivery and sustainment, support interaction designs for software-based experiences, and partner with internal development teams, product teams and design groups to research and analyze customer feedback for incorporation into product enhancements, new product designs and overall design language and strategy. </p><div><div><p>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. </p></div></div></div><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div dir="ltr" data-wrapper="true"><ul><li>Deliver world-class design solutions from the initial concept through finished product   </li><li>Advocate for your design solutions by putting them in context of business, user goals, and ecosystem considerations. </li><li>Incorporate system and framework thinking and pattern-matching into solutions to reinforce integrity of design system and product cohesion   </li><li>Contribute to the visual systems and visual language for a product. </li><li>Strategically integrate AI tools into design workflows—for ideation, prototyping, and evaluating system behaviors. Understand model capabilities, data dependencies, and ethical implications to design human-AI interactions grounded in trust and clarity.</li><li>Consolidate insights from research, engineering, PM, and data signals into clear design direction. Prioritize feedback based on impact and feasibility, ensuring solutions stay aligned to core user goals.</li><li>Leverage qualitative and quantitative data—including behavioral metrics, usage patterns, and engagement signals—to validate hypotheses and refine designs. Ask meaningful questions to uncover friction points and improvement opportunities.</li><li>Work closely and constructively with product management, content designers, user researchers, engineers and other designers to iterate and deliver design artifacts and solutions. </li><li>Create wireframes, journey maps, prototypes and detailed mockups to iterate on product scenarios.   </li><li>Clearly communicate your work to peers and leadership.  </li><li>Own multiple product areas, identify new opportunities and generate innovative through deep customer understanding, ensuring the experience vision is driven by user needs and manage launches and iterations. </li><li>Cross-functional and cross-divisional communication and dependency management and seeing through implementation by collaborating with engineering through the finish line. </li><li>Thrive in a complex, design-driven, product development cycle. Measure success with data and research. </li><li>Embody our culture and values.  </li></ul></div><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><p><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></p><div dir="ltr" data-wrapper="true"><ul><li>Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design<ul><li>OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design</li><li>OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)</li></ul></li><li>Experience designing and prototyping in Figma</li><li>Experience with using After Effects</li><li>Demonstrated ability to use AI-assisted design tools for ideation, prototyping, and refining user flows, with an understanding of model behaviors, constraints, and responsible AI guidelines.</li></ul><p><strong>Other Requirements:</strong><br>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:<br> <br><strong>Microsoft Cloud Background Check:</strong> This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</p><p><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></p><div dir="ltr" data-wrapper="true"><ul><li>Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design<ul><li>OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design</li><li>OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)</li></ul></li><li>3+ years experience shipping products to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process</li><li>Experience designing for growth, where design solutions are evaluated based on usage, growth, or retention metrics.</li><li>Experience that demonstrates proven ability to advocate for design thinking, effectively influence design outcomes, discover problems and tackle them in fast-paced environments.</li></ul><p><br>#Time&Places #GXPIndia</p></div></div> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>

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