XNA / Xbox Program Manager

Job Description: What could possibly be more exciting then writing your own game and seeing it run on an Xbox 360? How about enabling a vibrant community of others to write thousands of games and share them with a captive audience over Xbox LIVE? The team that democratized game development with XNA Game Studio is now also working to democratize game distribution. The XNA Community Game Platform team is looking for a passionate and motivated program manager to help define and deliver the Web experiences enabling the first ever gaming service on consoles consisting of games created by the community and managed by the community. Salivating at the opportunity yet? Fantastic. We’re looking for an exceptional candidate to help lead the way. We have a tremendous opportunity for a program manager to help amplify our community gaming story. Your focus will be needed to help us build the right pieces for a robust user-generated content platform.  Responsibilities will include:·  Understanding both the game creator and game consumer as customers and advocating their pain points when it comes to user-generated content.·  Defining the solutions to our problem space and working with development and test to ship a quality implementation.·  Managing cross-group relationships for your areas Hands on API and SDK design. ·  Ensuring we are building the right pieces in the right places for a scalable business Shipping. Job Requirements: ·  Ideal candidates should have 2-3 years experience as a PM working in all phases of the software development cycle on Web technologies and customer-focused design.·  A proven track record of shipping quality products and strong collaboration with external teams is required.·  On the technical side you should be fluent in web technology design including accessing web-services, RSS, html, etc, SQL, ASP.NET, .NET 3.0, JavaScript, Flash and n-tier application designs.·   BA/BS in computer science or related field or equivalent technical experience desired.·  Game development experience is a plus but is not required.·  Must be passionate about games and online communities however. Join us as we change the gaming world! Microsoft offers an excellent benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, vacation, employee stock purchase plan, and 401k, plus some great extras including: our 24-hour nurse line, stay fit program, product discounts, and paid infant care leave. All part of our commitment to our most important asset: our employees. For more information about life at Microsoft, please visit our careers website. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce. ;