Principal Product Manager, Azure Speech

Microsoft

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Hybrid

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Hybrid
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Salary
$165,600–$296,400 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Apr 4, 2027

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Above market

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 634 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Azure Speech

The Principal Product Manager - Azure Speech (CoreAI) joins the team building next-generation Speech and Voice AI capabilities for Microsoft Foundry. This role focuses on driving go-to-market strategy, customer adoption, and business growth for real-time conversational and voice-agent scenarios. You will own the outbound product strategy, engage directly with strategic partners to architect use cases, and translate market insights into actionable roadmap recommendations. Key responsibilities include developing customer narratives, identifying adoption barriers, and building lighthouse engagements. You must leverage expertise in speech recognition, text-to-speech, speech translation, LLMs, and agentic systems. The role requires a deep understanding of cloud AI platforms, APIs, and developer platforms to solve complex problems regarding low-latency, scalable, and reliable voice experiences for enterprises, developers, and intelligent devices.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $199250 from 725 postings across 94 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own the outbound product strategy for Speech and Voice AI with a focus on real-time conversational and voice-agent scenarios.
  • Develop strategies to accelerate adoption and business growth across enterprise customers, developers, and strategic partners.
  • Engage directly with strategic customers to architect use cases for speech recognition, TTS, and agentic systems.
  • Translate customer requirements, competitive intelligence, and market trends into actionable product insights and roadmap recommendations.
  • Define differentiated positioning, value propositions, and field-enablement assets for the Speech and Voice AI portfolio.
  • Develop partnerships with ISVs and platform providers to expand the conversational and agentic AI ecosystem.
  • Advocate for reliable, low-latency, and scalable experiences by partnering with engineering and research teams.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • 15+ years of experience in product management, product strategy, business development, or related enterprise technology experience (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to drive customer adoption and business impact for developer platforms, cloud services, or AI products (preferred).
  • Experience with Speech AI, including STT, TTS, speech translation, conversational AI, or real-time communication technologies (preferred).
  • Understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, and agentic application architectures (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud AI platforms, APIs, developer platforms, or AI infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience building GTM strategies and driving adoption for emerging technologies (preferred).

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