Productivity & Automation Project Manager

The Project Manager of Productivity & Automation is responsible for maximizing the business value delivered through enterprise productivity, automation, and AI capabilities. The role partners with business Product Domain teams to identify opportunities, translate business needs into prioritized solutions, and drive adoption of modern automation and AI capabilities.

The role owns the what, why, and priority of the work, while partnering with Platform Owners and engineering teams on the how, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, governance, and platform standards.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Work with the Platform Owners, develop and maintain the productivity & automation roadmap aligned with business priorities and technology strategy.
• Identify opportunities where automation, AI, and Microsoft 365 can simplify work, improve employee productivity, or modernize business processes.
• Define expected business outcomes and measures of success.

Product & Backlog Ownership

• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, risk, dependencies, and strategic alignment.
• Translate business needs into epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineering and Platform Owners to evaluate solution options, complexity, dependencies, and technical feasibility.
• Make prioritization and scope trade-offs across competing business demands.

Business Partnership & Solution Delivery

• Partner with Product Domain teams to understand workflows, pain points, and automation or AI opportunities.
• Guide initiatives toward reusable enterprise capabilities rather than isolated point solutions where practical.
• Coordinate dependencies across Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, AI, security, data, and other enterprise platforms.

Citizen Development & AI Adoption

• Enable Citizen Developers to safely build workflow automation and productivity solutions using approved enterprise platforms.
• Promote adoption of approved AI tools and identify high-value AI use cases.
• Partner with Platform Owners to establish patterns, guardrails, reusable components, training, and best practices that support responsible self-service development.
• Help transition successful citizen-developed solutions into appropriately governed and supported enterprise solutions when needed.

SharePoint Development Alignment

• SharePoint developers may be embedded within Product Domain teams outside of the Productivity & Automation team, but will operate in alignment with the broader platform model.
• This role will facilitate a weekly 1-2 hour SharePoint development sync where embedded development teams:
• Share current and upcoming projects and solutions.
• Review proposed approaches with the platform team.
• Align on common development patterns, architecture, security, governance, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities for reusable components and shared capabilities.
• Surface dependencies, risks, and platform needs early.
• Share lessons learned and patterns across Product Domain teams.
• Move quickly while maintaining enterprise consistency, governance, reuse, and platform integrity across SharePoint and the broader Productivity & Automation ecosystem.

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of working experience with:
• Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI
• Copilot Studio
• SharePoint
• Microsoft Foundry
• Generative AI platforms and tools, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Microsoft AI capabilities
• Bachelors' degree or 7 years of working experience in the related field.

Evolver is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Actual salary will depend on factors such as skills, qualifications, experience, market and work location. Evolver offers benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies. The annual salary for this position in the San Francisco Bay Area is $130,000 to $145,000.