Microsoft

Principal Product Manager- Responsible AI - CoreAI

Microsoft$188K — $304K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience as a software product manager or C-level startup executive in a product role, with a focus on B2B software.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft's security screening requirements.
  • Experience defining product strategy and launching complex technical products.
  • Proven track record of collaboration across engineering, design, research, and customer-facing teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, capable of influencing executive stakeholders.
  • Passion for Responsible AI and navigating ambiguity to translate emerging technology trends into scalable capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term vision and strategy for Responsible AI capabilities.
  • Build platform capabilities to operationalize AI safety, security, and compliance.
  • Partner with engineering and science teams to design scalable AI evaluations and monitoring capabilities.
  • Drive customer discovery to understand Responsible AI challenges in regulated industries.
  • Collaborate with Microsoft Research and other teams to anticipate technology and regulatory needs.
  • Define success metrics, leveraging customer insights to enhance product adoption.
  • Represent Microsoft in discussions with customers and industry forums on trustworthy AI.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement
  • Collaborative and inclusive work environment
  • Access to innovative projects and technologies
  • Flexible work arrangements and work-life balance options
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

As a Principal Product Manager, you will:

Define the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for Responsible AI capabilities within Microsoft.

Build platform capabilities that enable enterprises to operationalize AI safety, security, governance, transparency, and compliance throughout the AI lifecycle.

Partner with engineering and science teams to design scalable capabilities for:
    • AI evaluations
    • AI red teaming
    • Safety & security guardrails
    • AI Risk detection
    • Model and agent monitoring
    • AI Governance workflows
    • Transparency and provenance

Drive customer discovery with enterprises across regulated industries to understand emerging Responsible AI challenges and translate them into differentiated platform capabilities.

Partner with Microsoft Research, Legal, Security, Responsible AI, Compliance, and Engineering teams to anticipate future technology and regulatory requirements.

Collaborate across Foundry, GitHub, Microsoft Security, and other Microsoft organizations to deliver integrated governance experiences.

Define success metrics and use customer insights and telemetry to continuously improve product adoption and customer value.

Represent Microsoft with customers, partners, standards bodies, and industry forums focused on trustworthy AI.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of experience as a software product manager, or C-level start up executive playing a product role, focusing on B2B software.


Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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:
  • Experience defining product strategy and shipping complex technical products.
  • Experience working across engineering, design, research, and customer-facing teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
  • Passion for Responsible AI.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity, influencing across organizations, and translating emerging technology trends into scalable platform capabilities.
  • 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).


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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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