Principal Group Engineering Manager

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.