Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • $142K — $274K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years in product/service management or software development, OR equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years experience in product/service management or software development, OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years driving product features from conception to market.
  • 6+ years enhancing product metrics, including customer acquisition and retention.
  • 6+ years experience in market disruption with a product or feature.
  • 4+ years leading large-scale data services, OR equivalent experience.
  • Proven ability to leverage Generative AI in transforming business workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement strategy for an AI-native platform in Windows engineering.
  • Establish OKRs for product areas across organizational divisions.
  • Identify and prioritize long-term investment opportunities with cross-organizational collaboration.
  • Engage internal and external partners to solicit feedback and promote product vision.
  • Simplify AI technical concepts into business value for executive and customer consensus.
  • Manage the progression of product features from private to general availability.
  • Utilize customer feedback systems to inform product development and improvement.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays to promote work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching contributions.
  • Possibility of remote work and flexible scheduling options.
Full Job Description
Overview

Transform one of Microsoft's largest data estates into an AI-native, agent-ready platform powering the future of Windows engineering.

Our team collects, processes, and serves the telemetry that powers Windows engineering - the diagnostic backbone behind reliability, debugging, and quality decisions at scale. We're looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to help us evolve this platform to meet the changing demands of AI transformation.

Lead Platform Modernization
  • Define and execute the strategy to evolve the Windows engineering data estate into a low-latency, cost-efficient, AI-native platform capable of supporting the next generation of engineering and business workloads.

Enable AI Transformation
  • Enable engineering teams across Microsoft to build AI-powered agents and workflows, delivering trusted, scalable access to engineering data as a force-multiplier for their success.

Deliver Hero Experiences
  • Incubate and scale flagship agentic solutions that demonstrate platform value and transform how engineers discover, diagnose, and resolve issues.

Responsibilities
  • Distills the vision and strategy into a product roadmap, emphasizing AI as a core differentiator to address customer needs and market opportunities.
  • Identifies OKRs for multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) across divisional boundaries and ensures alignment of the product with organization-level OKRs.
  • Serves as an expert in identifying AI-informed, long-term or overall solution-level investment opportunities, evaluating tradeoffs, and prioritizing investments in consultation with cross organizational partners for multiple feature areas (e.g., product, service) across divisional boundaries.
  • Influences and drives engagement with cross-functional internal partnerships, external partners, including early adopting customers, senior leadership, and other key stakeholders to gather input and garner support for product/service vision, strategy, and roadmap for multiple feature areas across divisional boundaries.
  • Translates complex technical AI concepts into business value, engaging with executives and customers to build consensus and support for AI-first product strategies.
  • Creates and drives strategy for taking the multiple feature areas across divisional boundaries from private preview to public preview and then to general availability.
  • Leverages customer listening systems, telemetry, engagements (e.g., interviews, surveys), etc., to develop insights on product performance and customer needs.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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).
  • 4+ years of experience leading large data and/or hyperscale services.
    • OR equivalent experiences.
  • Demonstrated experience applying Generative AI to transform business and/or customer workflows.


#W+DJOBS

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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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
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