Microsoft

Senior Product Manager

Microsoft$119K — $234K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience
  • Preferred: Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience
  • At least 2 years of experience launching a product, feature, or experience
  • 4+ years improving product metrics such as customer acquisition and retention
  • 4+ years of market disruption experience for a product or feature
  • Experience from concept to real-world usage validation through rapid prototyping and iteration
  • Familiarity with AI-driven products, particularly in generative AI and LLMs
  • Proficient in communication and stakeholder management across teams

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end product outcomes from strategy through delivery with a focus on measurable impact
  • Define product vision and roadmap based on customer insights and data
  • Lead design and delivery of AI-powered support experiences and workflows
  • Drive product execution by collaborating with engineering, data, design, and service delivery teams
  • Manage prioritization and backlog to focus on high-impact work
  • Use live-site signals and KPIs for continuous product improvement and evaluation
  • Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas using AI tools to decrease time from concept to impact
  • Facilitate go-to-market strategies and change management for new capabilities
  • Communicate strategy and progress to cross-organizational stakeholders, fostering alignment
  • Champion Responsible AI principles for safe and compliant agent-based experiences

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health plans including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous paid time off and holidays
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching
  • Employee wellness programs and mental health support
  • Opportunities for professional development and education reimbursement
  • Access to employee resource groups and community initiatives
  • Flexible work arrangements including remote work options
Full Job Description
Overview

In this role, you will own and deliver a portfolio of AI-powered support experiences and agent-based workflows that improve customer outcomes and deliver on self-help success at a global scale. You won't just write specs, you'll prototype, experiment, and drive outcomes in close partnership with engineering, data, design, and service delivery teams. You'll build intelligent systems that continuously learn and improve through real-world usage, leveraging experimentation and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate iteration in improving customer outcomes in support.

This role offers the opportunity to directly drive the evolution of AI-powered customer support systems at Microsoft. You will work on systems that operate at global scale, deliver measurable customer and business impact, and shape how intelligent agents are applied to real-world support workflows. This is a hands-on, builder-focused role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, thinks like a builder, and leads with data, experimentation, and delivered product outcomes.

If you're excited to build AI-powered systems, lead large-scale transformation, and deliver measurable results, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end product outcomes from strategy through delivery, ensuring measurable customer and business impact


  • Define product vision, strategy, and roadmap grounded in customer insights, data, and business priorities


  • Lead the design and delivery of AI-powered support experiences and agent-based workflows, including autonomous resolution capabilities


  • Drive product execution across engineering, data, design, and service delivery teams, delivering scalable, high-quality solutions


  • Lead prioritization, backlog management, and cross-team alignment, focusing teams on the highest-impact work


  • Use live-site signals, experimentation, and operational KPIs to drive continuous product improvement, owning evaluation metrics and iteration velocity


  • Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas using AI tools, accelerating learning and reducing time from concept to impact


  • Drive go-to-market, readiness, and change management, partnering across stakeholder teams to land new agent capabilities and accelerate adoption


  • Communicate strategy, trade-offs, and results to cross-org stakeholders, building alignment and influence across organizational boundaries


  • Champion Responsible AI principles, ensuring agent-based experiences are safe, grounded, transparent, and compliant with Microsoft's AI standards, privacy, and security requirements


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.


Preferred qualifications

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


  • 2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).


  • 4+ 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).


  • 4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).


  • Experience taking products or systems from concept to real-world usage, validating ideas quickly through prototyping and iteration.


  • Experience using data, live-site signals, and experimentation to drive product improvements and measure impact


  • Experience working with or strong interest in AI-driven products (e.g., generative AI, LLMs), with the ability to quickly learn and apply new techniques


  • Communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a track record of influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority.


Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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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