Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 38 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Jan 30, 2027
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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As a Principal Product Manager, you will join the team responsible for shaping next-generation AI-powered information discovery experiences. You will lead product strategy for technologies that enable Copilot Chat and other AI systems to find, understand, and surface relevant information within complex environments. Your daily work involves partnering with engineering and applied science teams to define roadmaps, prioritize investments, and improve how information is represented, discovered, and ranked. You will build evaluation frameworks, manage experimentation efforts, and use data-driven insights to enhance search quality, relevance, and accuracy. The role requires expertise in machine learning, ranking systems, information retrieval, and fine-tuning projects. You must possess strong analytical skills to balance customer value with performance and scalability while navigating the technical challenges of search relevance and recommendation technologies to improve overall user satisfaction.

What does a Product Manager earn in Washington?

Median $207000 from 56 postings across 17 companies.

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Skills

AI Machine Learning LLM Information Retrieval Search Relevance Ranking Systems Fine-tuning Product Analytics Experimentation Data Science Software Engineering Copilot

What you'll do

Define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI-powered search and retrieval capabilities.
Partner with engineering and machine learning teams to improve information representation, discovery, and ranking.
Drive investments to improve search quality, relevance, accuracy, and user satisfaction.
Establish success metrics and evaluation frameworks to measure product effectiveness.
Lead experimentation efforts and use data-driven insights to inform product decisions.
Balance customer value, performance, scalability, and operational costs when making product tradeoffs.
Communicate product strategy, priorities, and outcomes to stakeholders across the organization.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product management, service management, program management, or software development.
Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background checks and other required security screenings.
2 years of experience working on information retrieval, search relevance, or ranking systems.
5 years of experience building AI-powered products or platforms.
2 years of experience working on fine-tuning projects.
Demonstrated experience in product management, software engineering, or data science.
Strong analytical skills and ability to use data to drive decisions.
Experience partnering with machine learning and applied science teams using experimentation methodologies and evaluation frameworks.

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