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 in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of experience taking a product or feature to market.
  • 6+ years of experience improving product metrics in a market.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, design, and data science.

Responsibilities

  • Define product vision and strategy for SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft 365 experiences.
  • Partner with enterprise customers to understand business processes and validate opportunities.
  • Drive product investments linking content, workflows, automation, and AI into seamless experiences.
  • Collaborate with various teams to deliver high-quality AI experiences based on customer feedback.
  • Build alignment across multiple Microsoft organizations for integrated experiences.
  • Define success metrics and strategies to demonstrate customer impact and guide investment decisions.
  • Stay ahead of AI innovation and translate technologies into practical product opportunities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
  • Employee discounts on products and services.
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
Full Job Description
Overview

As a Principal Product Manager, you'll define and drive product strategy for experiences that help customers achieve business outcomes across SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, automation, and Microsoft 365. Working closely with engineering, design, research, applied science, data science, customer experience (CXE), and customers, you'll identify the highest-value opportunities to transform how organizations work with content and AI.

In this role, you'll partner directly with customers to understand their business challenges, identify high-value opportunities, and translate those insights into product investments across SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, automation, Microsoft 365, and Copilot. You'll work across engineering, design, research, data science, customer experience (CXE), applied science, and partner teams to shape experiences that connect AI with enterprise content and business processes at massive scale.

This is a highly strategic IC role with broad influence across Microsoft. You'll define product direction, build alignment across organizations, and help shape how AI, enterprise content, automation, and workflows come together to help customers achieve measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Define the product vision and strategy for experiences that help customers achieve business outcomes across SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, automation, and Microsoft 365.
  • Partner directly with enterprise customers to deeply understand their business processes, validate opportunities, and ensure product investments solve meaningful customer problems.
  • Drive product investments that connect enterprise content, workflows, automation, and AI into seamless end-to-end experiences.
  • Partner with engineering, design, research, applied science, data science, customer experience (CXE), and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality AI experiences informed by customer feedback and product evaluation.
  • Build alignment across multiple Microsoft organizations to deliver integrated experiences spanning SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot, Microsoft Lists, and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
  • Define success metrics, experimentation strategies, and evaluation frameworks that demonstrate customer impact and inform investment decisions.
  • Stay at the forefront of AI innovation and translate emerging technologies into practical product opportunities that create differentiated customer value.
  • Represent the product with customers through executive engagements, conferences, design partnerships, and customer advisory discussions.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/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:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
  • 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
  • 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
  • Experience leading highly cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, design, research, data science, customer experience (CXE), and executive stakeholders.
  • Experience defining product strategy using customer insights, data, and experimentation.
  • Effective communication and influence skills with the ability to align multiple organizations without direct authority.
  • Experience building AI-powered or Copilot experiences.
  • Experience with enterprise productivity, collaboration, workflow, automation, Microsoft Lists, or content management platforms.
  • Experience partnering directly with enterprise customers to identify unmet needs and validate product direction.
  • Familiarity with modern AI technologies, agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), automation, or workflow orchestration.
  • Passion for building products that help customers achieve meaningful business outcomes at global scale.


Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 - $304,200 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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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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