Principal and Senior Product Managers
$119.8k - $304.2k/yr
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's
Redmond, WA, USA
In Person
ProductProduct Management
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About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of experience in product, service, or program management, or software development, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Responsibilities
- Establish continuous AI-powered intelligence loops across customer signals, telemetry, threat research, market evidence, and strategic engagements to identify emerging needs and shape portfolio-level decisions.
- Own the customer promise, multi-year strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes, defining how AI, agents, security research, and integrated exposure signals become core parts of the product.
- Lead zero-to-one product development across organizations, personally using AI-assisted tools to accelerate prototypes and decisions while establishing evaluation systems and secure, private, responsible, reliable, and explainable quality bars.
- Define go-to-market strategy for major investments and use AI to accelerate learning and alignment across Product Marketing, field, sales, support, engineering, partners, executives, and strategic customers from preview through scaled adoption.
- Work across Microsoft product teams and external partners to deliver integrated, end-to-end experiences.
- Use customer feedback, telemetry, and performance insights to guide joint initiatives, improve outcomes, and amplify product value.
- Use AI, telemetry, market analysis, and customer engagement to identify unmet security needs, test hypotheses, and prioritize opportunities across multiple feature areas.
- Define product vision, roadmaps, investments, and measurable outcomes, including how AI and integrated exposure signals deliver customer value, business impact, and improved security posture.
- Build prototypes and drive end-to-end product development with engineering, design, data science, and research, using AI-assisted tools to accelerate learning and deliver secure, responsible, reliable, and accessible experiences.
- Drive go-to-market execution from private preview through general availability, aligning Product Marketing, field, sales, support, engineering, and customers on release criteria, positioning, adoption, and readiness.
- Work across Microsoft product teams and partners to deliver integrated, end-to-end experiences. Use customer feedback, telemetry, experiments, and AI-driven analysis to improve outcomes, guide product evolution, and scale reusable practices.
Desired Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in product, service, or program management, or software development, or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, such as through design, addressing product-market fit, and launch, including internal tools or frameworks.
- At least 4 years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market, such as growing the customer base, expanding customer usage, or avoiding customer churn.
- At least 4 years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience, such as through competitive disruption or replacing an established competing product.
- Demonstrated experience building enterprise-security products used by security leaders and practitioners.
- Experience with attack-surface management, vulnerability management, cloud-security posture, attack paths, security graphs, threat intelligence, or remediation workflows.
- Experience taking an AI capability from technical exploration through evaluation, launch, and scaled production operation.
- Experience personally creating working prototypes, demos, agents, or automated workflows with AI-assisted tools to validate product ideas and accelerate learning.
- Experience establishing reusable AI-first workflows, evaluation methods, shared assets, or paved paths that increased effectiveness across multiple teams.
- Fluency in AI product evaluation, including grounding, relevance, precision and recall, safety, explainability, latency, and cost.
- Demonstrated ability to influence executives, resolve cross-company dependencies, coach Product Managers, and lead AI-first adoption through significant ambiguity.
About the company
Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington
Founded
1975
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- US corporate staff receive education support: eligible, approved graduate coursework qualifies for up to $10,000 annually.
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- Investment has an earnings cushion: July 2026 results reported $155.2 billion consolidated operating profit for fiscal 2026.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Company Match
- Professional Development Budget
- Conference Attendance Budget
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options