Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft$142K — $274K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years' experience in product/service/project/program management or software development.
  • 10+ years of experience in product management or related roles in AI and data analytics.
  • Deep expertise in data modeling and semantic systems, particularly with business domains.
  • Strong fluency in AI and data platforms, particularly in grounding AI agents in business semantics.
  • Proven track record of leading end-to-end product lifecycles with a focus on quality and differentiation.
  • Experience with metadata systems and governance to build scalable platforms.
  • Ability to lead cross-organizational initiatives and engage externally with customers and partners.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the semantic layer vision for Fabric, integrating business operations with a graph-powered ontology.
  • Drive AI-native scenarios by leveraging graph context to enhance decision-making.
  • Lead full product strategy from ideation to delivery, ensuring high-quality AI solutions.
  • Develop customer adoption plans that unify data into semantic layers and amplify investments.
  • Coordinate alignment among various teams including engineering and design for a cohesive AI stack.
  • Engage customers to validate product-market fit and translate trends into roadmap priorities.
  • Actively promote the company culture and values in daily operations.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for benefits and compensation programs.
  • Opportunity to engage with cutting-edge AI and data analytics technologies.
  • Chance to influence the development of innovative data-first applications.
  • Work in a collaborative environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Access to Microsoft's extensive resources and knowledge base.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver the semantic layer vision for Fabric, shaping how customers model business operations into a graph-powered, actionable ontology that bridges analytics and operations.
  • Drive AI-native scenarios by grounding agents in live business operations, leveraging graph context to improve accuracy, reduce hallucinations, and enable trusted, autonomous decision-making.
  • Lead end-to-end product strategy and execution, from market insight and ideation through delivery and lifecycle management, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and differentiated AI solutions on the Fabric platform.
  • Customer adoption and journey, defining a phased path from unified data to unified semantic layers, amplifying existing analytics investments while unlocking operational intelligence and read/write agent scenarios.
  • Orchestrate cross-org alignment as well as across engineering, research, design, and platform teams (data, analytics, real-time, AI) to deliver a cohesive, differentiated semantic and AI stack.
  • Engage customers and ecosystem to validate product-market fit, shape the competitive narrative, and translate market trends and feedback into prioritized roadmap decisions.
  • Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years' experience in product/service/project/program management or software development or equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, or related roles in the AI and data and analytics domain. Proven track record of leading, shipping and delivering complex and innovative Data & AI solutions that create value for customers and stakeholders, using Microsoft AI or similar technologies.
  • Deep data modeling & semantic systems: Experience across relational, dimensional, semantic, ontology, and graph models, with hands-on experience modeling business domains (entities, relationships, metrics, events, temporal context).
  • AI + data platform fluency: Deep understanding of enterprise data platforms (warehouse, Lakehouse, semantic layers, metadata systems) and how to ground AI/agents in business semantics to deliver accurate, trustworthy outcomes.
  • End-to-end product execution: Proven ability to lead the full product lifecycle from market insight and ideation through delivery and adoption with rigor in prioritization, quality, compliance, and differentiation.
  • Customer-centric problem solving: Ability to translate ambiguous customer scenarios into clear modeling requirements, technical tradeoffs, and phased adoption journeys that drive measurable customer value.
  • Metadata, governance, and platform depth: Experience with metadata systems, lineage, governance, schema evolution, and data quality, with a pragmatic approach to building scalable, enterprise-ready platforms.
  • Cross-org leadership and external engagement: Ability to drive alignment across engineering, research, and platform teams, while engaging customers, partners, and ecosystem players to validate product-market fit and shape the category narrative.

#Azuredata

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 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 $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 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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