Microsoft

Principal Product Manager, Content Product

Microsoft • $165K — $296K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree and 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
  • Proven track record from customer discovery to launch and measurable adoption of ambiguous, zero-to-one product ideas.
  • Experience in AI, machine learning, search, recommendation, or data-driven product experiences.
  • Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop evidence-based decisions for successful product transitions from exploration to scaled execution.
  • Solid viewpoint on AI's impact on content discovery and understanding.

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision and strategy for new content intelligence products, identifying customer needs and technology shifts.
  • Build enterprise content intelligence products including personalized company and industry briefings.
  • Translate complex capabilities into coherent, reusable product systems for multiple Microsoft canvases.
  • Lead rapid customer discovery, prototyping, and experimentation for product-market fit.
  • Partner with design, engineering, and editorial teams to integrate new products into existing Microsoft platforms.
  • Establish success criteria and use evidence-driven decisions to refine or discontinue projects.
  • Mentor Product Managers and influence leaders across organizational boundaries to raise the standard in product development.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage options.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Productivity-enhancing tools and resources.
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Overview

Microsoft AI is reimagining how billions of people discover, understand, and act on content. Our Content Product Experiences team builds experiences across MSN, the Edge new tab, Windows Start, and Copilot Discover, from personalized feeds to entirely new AI-native products. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to identify and build the next generation of content products and the reusable intelligence systems that power them. You will take new ideas from early exploration through product-market fit, beginning with personalized company and industry intelligence for enterprise information workers. You will bring together user understanding, knowledge, content agents, ranking, and interactive experiences to help people understand what changed, why it matters, and what to do next. This is a highly cross-functional role for a category builder who can see around corners, prototype quickly, and turn emerging AI capabilities into products people depend on.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities
  • Own the vision and strategy for new content intelligence products, identifying unmet customer needs and technology shifts that can define our next product categories.
  • Build enterprise content intelligence as the first product focus, including personalized company and industry briefings, watchlists, and experiences that explain what changed, why it matters, and what a user can do next.
  • Translate capabilities across user understanding, knowledge graphs, content agents, ranking, quality, and interactive components into coherent, reusable product systems that can serve multiple Microsoft canvases.
  • Lead rapid customer discovery, prototyping, and experimentation to find product-market fit, separate durable value from novelty, and earn the right to scale.
  • Partner deeply with design, engineering, applied science, editorial, and canvas product teams to integrate new products into Edge, Windows, MSN, and Copilot without duplicating existing ownership.
  • Establish clear success criteria, use evidence to decide what to advance, refine, or stop, and transition proven experiences to the teams best positioned to operate them at scale.
  • Act as a force multiplier for the product organization by raising the bar for zero-to-one product thinking, mentoring PMs, and influencing senior leaders across organizational boundaries.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Proven track record of taking ambiguous, zero-to-one product ideas from customer discovery through launch and measurable adoption. (required)
  • Experience defining and shipping AI, machine learning, search, recommendation, knowledge, or data-intensive product experiences. (required)
  • Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority.
  • Experience building enterprise intelligence, knowledge, content, or productivity products that serve multiple applications or customer experiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop multiple new product opportunities, make disciplined evidence-based decisions, and transition successful products from exploration to scaled execution.
  • A builder's portfolio with concrete examples of new products or categories created using emerging technology.
  • A solid point of view on how AI will change content discovery, understanding, and action.
  • Comfort operating across capability, product, and experience boundaries while maintaining clear ownership.
  • Customer obsession, intellectual curiosity, a bias to prototype, and excellent judgment about when to scale, pivot, or stop.


#MicrosoftAI

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
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