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Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Principal Product Manager

Full-TimePosted on 10/21/2026
$142.8k - $304.2k/yr
Senior, Expert
Bachelor's
Redmond, WA, USA
In Person
ProductTechnical Product Management
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree and 8 or more years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
  • Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Experience leading technical platform, API, search, data, developer, SaaS, or PaaS products from product definition through delivery, production adoption, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience leading through influence across organizational boundaries, delegating or coordinating work and dependencies across teams while maintaining accountability for end-to-end product outcomes.
  • Experience operating autonomously through ambiguity across evolving product areas and translating complex customer, technical, and business needs into product decisions, prioritized roadmaps, and executable requirements.
  • Experience engaging directly with customers, developers, or partners to understand scenarios and translate feedback into scalable product improvements.
  • Experience making product decisions involving APIs, distributed systems, identity and authorization, service reliability, or comparable technical platform considerations.
  • Experience defining or evaluating search, retrieval, data, or information-access experiences and making tradeoffs involving quality, coverage, freshness, latency, reliability, or cost.
  • Experience using telemetry, customer insights, experiments, evaluations, or other qualitative and quantitative evidence to guide product decisions and measure outcomes.
Responsibilities
  • Own and evolve the strategy and prioritized roadmap for Work IQ’s shared platform and provider ecosystem, translating customer, developer, and business needs into scalable capabilities and clear investment priorities while driving execution through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement.
  • Define product requirements and success measures for relevance, source coverage, freshness, citations, provenance, and structured evidence used by consuming agents.
  • Partner with engineering and applied science to define how indexed retrieval and live federated sources work together, including source selection, result normalization, ranking, latency, reliability, and partial-failure experiences.
  • Establish requirements for source references, discovery, and integration patterns that enable agents to move reliably from retrieved evidence to authorized fetches or actions.
  • Define provider onboarding, capability and schema discovery, compatibility expectations, lifecycle management, and readiness requirements that support reusable platform experiences.
  • Partner with engineering, security, and governance teams to define requirements related to identity, authorization, tenant policy, auditability, observability, reliability, and controlled rollout.
  • Delegate and coordinate work across provider, consumer, product, and engineering teams and individuals outside the role's direct reporting structure. Navigate competing requirements and dependencies, drive follow-through on commitments, and maintain end-to-end accountability for product outcomes, including work outside the role's own organization.
  • Engage directly with customers, developers, and partners to understand scenarios, evaluate product and integration experiences, answer product questions, gather feedback, and translate recurring insights into scalable product improvements.
  • Use telemetry, evaluations, customer insights, and production evidence to improve retrieval quality, adoption, reliability, performance, and cost.
Desired Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree and 12 or more years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
  • Familiarity with one or more relevant areas, such as enterprise search, retrieval or retrieval-augmented generation, AI/LLM-based agents, MCP or similar integration protocols, federated data access, developer platforms, or provider ecosystems. Direct MCP or AI-agent product experience is preferred but not required.

About the company

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Microsoft

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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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  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Professional Development Budget
  • Conference Attendance Budget
  • Flexible Work Hours
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