Product Manager 2

M365 Copilot Platform Ecosystem team is designing and building innovative AI agents on the M365 Copilot extensibility platform, including agent templates for makers as well as more bespoke solutions with leading customers. As a Product Manager II in the team, you will drive the next wave of agents built using the latest generative AI technology on M365 Copilot’s extensibility platform. Working across our engineering teams and with our most strategic customers and partners, you will deliver high-quality, sticky and transformative Copilot agents for use by millions of end-users. This engineering PM role is an excellent opportunity to don both scenario and experience-focused product PM as well as an external-facing solutions PM (Ecosystem PM) hats – at the same time!

We are looking for self-motivated, entrepreneurial, hands-on technical and outcome-drive Product Manager candidates who can operate in a fast-paced environment – predicated by rapid change and opportunities birthed out of ambiguity. You will frequently influence internal and customer stakeholders without authority, perform rapid exploration, bring your high sense of ownership and bias for execution to own and drive the vision, strategy and product roadmap for multiple customer and partner-built agents with a responsibility for partner and customer impact, developer experience, adoption growth strategy and business impact/ROI to support the next wave of growth for Copilot agents. You will have a direct role in pushing the latest AI frontiers, including autonomous agents, agentic AI systems, deep research and reasoning, multi-agent frameworks, complex data reasoning, model fine-tuning and agentic UX.

The ideal candidate for this role is an experienced, hands-on "builder" who advocates for generative AI-led transformation. They should be an "agent boss," meaning they regularly utilize generative AI and agents in their daily activities. The candidate should possess a "learn-it-all" mindset rather than a "know-it-all" attitude, and be comfortable navigating the uncertainties associated with transformative, time-sensitive, ROI-driven engagements with customers aiming to become Frontier Firms. This individual must adopt both business- and user-centric approaches to setting objectives, conducting executive-level discussions, aligning stakeholders, managing escalations, planning product roadmaps, and scheduling engagement timelines. They will lead the technical solution development, collaborating with internal M365 Copilot platform engineering teams as well as customers and developers working on our platform. Hands on experience with tools, frameworks and stacks such as Replit, Cursor, LangChain, n8n, LllamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI APIs, Auto-GPT, Hugging Face Transformers, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Spark, Bolt, Lovable, Claude etc. is a must. This must be demonstrated using real examples of rapid solution prototyping – since this will be a key part of day-to-day deliverables in the role.

We operate in a fast-paced environment with rapid exploration, iteration, and execution, as we develop the M365 Copilot extensibility platform. Your peers will be among the top professionals & the role involves interacting with partners and customers, and occasional travel within and outside the base location is expected.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 2+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Previous experience with proven success in working on customer-facing technical engagement.
• Previous experience working in the generative AI domain, strong familiarity with AI fundamentals, LLMs, RAG, GPTs, AI agents, MCP, A2A, AI cloud services architecture etc.
• Hands on experience with tools, frameworks and stacks such as Replit, Cursor, LangChain, n8n, LllamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI APIs, Auto-GPT, Hugging Face Transformers, GitHub Copilot, GitHub Spark, Bolt, Lovable, Claude etc. is a must.
• Strong executive presence and ability to think analytically and creatively on your feet.
• The ability to wear many hats and speak many language – from business to product to design to technical – learn quickly and change direction when needed.
• Experience presenting to senior executives, technical product/IT/BDM staff and end users; able to pivot quickly and adapt messaging to suit audience technical levels and ROI/value requirements.
• Demonstrated ability of very strong product thinking, technical solutioning, continuous tech upskilling and growth mindset.
• The ability to think creatively and critically about product features, user journeys and scenarios in the enterprise workflows space.
• Self-organized, strong project management, growth hacking, leadership and cross-group collaboration skills.
• Innate curiosity and ability to self-start in an ambiguous, highly autonomous and rapidly changing, new domain with evolving product, technology and customer maturity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically on the feet.
• Ability to hold technical discussions, go deep in technical areas, when required especially in domains of generative AI, LLM technology.
• Proven ability to build data-driven product experiences, define metrics and use analytics to derive insights to arrive at product & growth decisions.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Recent experience building and prototyping generative AI-based solutions (RAG, GPT, LLM) and general awareness of the rapidly-evolving AI, especially generative AI landscape including MCP, A2A protocols etc.
• Hands-on expertise with AI agents as a “builder” using low-code/no-code or pro-code tools or technical stacks, agentic frameworks.
• Hands-on experience or solid familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack is preferred (M365 Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio, AI agents, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Graph Connectors, Microsoft Teams extensibility platform, etc.).

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Work with product managers, developers, UX designers from our most strategic customers across C-suite, architects and developers.
• Explore the customer problem space and key requirements, pitch the potential of generative AI agents to transform business processes, lead envisioning and UX/technical design through with developers to build, ship and adopt Copilot agents into production. Build POC prototypes to bring customers’ vision to life.
• Serve as a key subject matter expert on M365 Copilot/Azure AI Foundry/Microsoft AI platform and agent capabilities, architecture; collaborate closely with peers, external partners and customers to train, advise and guide on technical capabilities, solution design and AI platform strategy.
• Drive key product insights and developer ecosystem signals coming straight from the market to shape the future of the M365 Copilot, help drive backlog prioritization, envisioning and spec’ing of new, innovative extensibility features and our AI extensibility stack inside Microsoft 365 Copilot app, Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Windows and other host products.
• Get exposure to 100s of diverse scenarios working alongside customers & partners using M365 Copilot (Microsoft's biggest bet since 'a PC on every desk') - basically never get bored since no two solutions are alike!
• Work directly with your feature crew colleagues across M365 Copilot platform engineering to design and deliver innovative extensibility features, including technical envisioning for how Copilot agents will work and interact with other services and applications.
• Determine adoption strategy for the Copilot agents shipped, unblock adoption, deployment and engagement to realize end-user and business value or ROI among target strategic customers.
• Develop and drive strategic initiatives to enable “hockey stick” ecosystem growth based on emerging AI agent capabilities, industry trends and strategic partnerships.
• Research, contextualize and evangelize frontier solutions, technology trends and opportunities to drive longer-term investments and product shifts.
• Cover multiple regions in the Eastern Hemisphere and work with peer product teams in the Americas and Europe (occasional flexibility around work schedules is expected).
• Embody our culture and values.