Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

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

  • Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in product management or software development.
  • Preferred: 12+ years of experience or equivalent.
  • Proven track record of successfully launched products and their outcomes.
  • Experience guiding a product area’s direction and learning from decisions made.
  • Strong product judgment and system thinking skills.
  • Fluency in product data analysis, including user funnels and retention.
  • Understanding of modern AI systems and their evaluation challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Define the strategic vision for the product area and ensure team alignment.
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and challenges.
  • Translate product vision into actionable roadmaps and requirements.
  • Establish and test hypotheses to drive iterative product improvements.
  • Design evaluation metrics to measure product performance and impact on customers.
  • Leverage AI tools for prototyping and validating product assumptions.
  • Integrate marketing, sales, and support into product development from the onset.

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Flexible work environment and remote work options.
  • Employee purchase program for Microsoft products.
  • Professional development opportunities and training.
Full Job Description
Overview

The PowerPoint Product Group builds an app that millions of people open every day to create, collaborate and present their ideas to their audiences. We are in the middle of the biggest transformation in our history: rebuilding PowerPoint and storytelling for the AI and agentic era to empower everyone to drive real change.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to own a strategic portfolio within the PowerPoint product. You will decide what gets built and why, define what quality means for your area, and stay accountable for whether customers love what ships. This is a product builder's job, with you being directly involved in creating prototypes, driving customer conversations, evaluating what we are planning to ship, and delivering the best experience to our users.

Responsibilities
  • Set the strategy for your area and make the calls on scope and sequencing. You will write the vision and plans and make sure everyone building against them understands what they are and why they matter.
  • Build a first-hand understanding of who you are building for and what is genuinely hard in their day. You will stay close to customer conversations, feedback, and telemetry every week, and be able to state the problem you are solving in plain language. Part of the craft is telling the difference between a problem that is interesting and one urgent enough that someone will change how they work.
  • Turn product vision into a roadmap and product requirements. You will write the framing memos and specifications that let the team move fast, prioritize the backlog, and adapt as evidence arrives.
  • Frame a hypothesis before the work starts, instrument what ships, and let the result change the plan. Your area should get measurably better week over week, and you should be able to say by how much.
  • You will design the evaluation approach that reflects what the product should do for a customer, covering helpfulness, accuracy, safety, and voice, and partner with engineering and data & applied sciences to run it and act on what it shows.
  • Use AI in your own practice. Work with agents and prototype your ideas quickly to validate some of your assumptions and run experiments.
  • Bring marketing, sales, and support in at the start of the cycle instead of the end. Know what competitors have shipped and how it landed, and be able to tell the one story about this product that only we can tell.


Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product management or software development.
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • A track record of products you personally shipped, told through the customer outcomes they produced.
  • Experience owning a product area's direction, including the decisions you made and what you learned from them.
  • Demonstrated product judgment - what's important in a product experience and why - and product system thinking - how a product experience is realized across its surfaces and platforms.
  • Fluency with product data, including user funnels, retention, and experimentation, and the ability to work in it directly.
  • Working knowledge of modern AI systems, including how quality gets evaluated and where these systems fail.
  • Prototyping ability, in design tools or in code, used to make ideas concrete early.
  • Direct work with enterprise customers on adoption, feedback, and evaluation datasets.


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.

About Microsoft

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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