Principal Product Manager | Microsoft Careers

Overview

SharePoint powers content, collaboration, and knowledge for the enterprise. It works as both a platform with Copilot, Teams, Microsoft Office, OneNote, Loop, and an application enabling customers to build 100s of millions tailored webapps in minutes and hours. It one of the largest knowledge platforms in the world and a leader in content management.

We want your help to build the world’s most valuable AI solutions on SharePoint that expands its role as a leader in content management in the age of AI.

As a Principal Group Product Manager for the OneDrive and SharePoint AI solutions team, this is a rare opportunity to influence the future, shaping the vision and strategy behind AI solutions built and customized on SharePoint. You will enable AI solutions, the features that deliver vertical AI value, and the experiences to tailor solutions for every enterprise customer. Moreover, working closely with customers partners, and the ecosystem, you will deeply understand their needs and ensure we deliver world-class experiences.

You will lead a high-performing and diverse PM organization that runs product management for one of the largest and most impactful services on the planet, which provides the knowledge that fuel AI and Copilot scenarios. You will foster a culture of customer obsession, innovation, and collaboration within your team and across Microsoft.

Our Culture

We are a AI first team of product managers for one of the largest business and consumer services on the planet. Our product ranges from consumer mobile features to developer experiences to large-scale distributed systems. We are data informed, hypothesis and eval driven. We measure our outcomes to prove we deliver value to customers. We partner closely with a talented and senior set of engineers, designers, applied scientists and researchers. We are a global team working across the United States, Europe & Asia and we all contribute directly to OneDrive & SharePoint.

Part of building a successful team is having an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. Transparency is also core to our culture. We leverage internal & external tools to get feedback, celebrate the work of our peers, and drive local and industry level changes. Additionally, we believe strongly in providing new opportunities for talent mobility & experimentation in your job with other parts of the team and company.

Lastly, we focus on, and have a track record of, delivering strong business results with key metrics to track our successes and failures. We like to have fun, celebrate our wins, and learn from our mistakes.

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.

Responsibilities

As Principal Group Product Manager, you will lead a team of product managers focused on automation and extensibility of the SharePoint AI. Working with designers, researchers, data science, applied science, marketing, and business partners you will expand SharePoint’s role as a leader in Enterprise Content Management joining the best of AI to one of the largest scale content systems in the world.  Your expertise in tradeoffs, ROI decisions, understanding the AI ecosystem, working with large engineering teams and in creating high performing experiences will be a key differentiator in this role.

This role is a rare opportunity that is at the intersection of learning and influencing the AI innovations in the industry, coaching the team through the wave, and building a team of high performers needed to build a differentiated AI experiences.

Key Deliverables:

• Overall accountability to grow the OneDrive and SharePoint AI usage by enabling solutions to highlight the capabilities of SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot and other Microsoft AI applications.
• Empower the community of SharePoint customizers and experts to build advanced solutions on top of SharePoint AI
• Drive integration with Copilot and Copilot Studio for agentic end to end solutions
• Accountability for coaching the team and raising the bar on evals to help ensure delivery of AI capabilities of the highest quality.
• Lead key partnerships with a diverse set of organizations, helping customers have the best Microsoft 365 experience they can.
• Grow talented PMs across all level bands and skillsets, improving and upgrading our talent as a team and creating the next generation of leaders.
• Engage with customers, both directly & indirectly, in formal and informal opportunities from conferences like Ignite to calls with customers to connect directly with them.
• Partner with Applied Science & Research, as well as your peers in PM across Microsoft to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences.
• Partner across our engineering teams to build a shared understanding and help organize our work across teams and services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management 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). In-depth people management and leadership experience.
• Relevant experience working with LLM/ML and building/shipping AI products to market.
• Experience presenting to leadership and executive audiences.
• Leadership experience in taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• Leadership experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• Leadership experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g.,. competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Experience handling successful delivery from initial strategy to engineering requirements to audience/user adoption.
• Deep knowledge and experience in various AI stacks, Agent SDKs, and multi-turn turn AI first experiences.
• Self-starter with effective communication skills (written and oral), skilled at influencing others and bias towards action.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and across levels of management.
• Prior People Management skills leading a diverse and inclusive, talented and creative team, experience in coaching and mentoring.
• Proven ability to create a healthy team culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and collaboration.
• Demonstrated interest and empathy for understanding customer scenarios and experiences.

Product Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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