Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: On-site
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Posted: 38 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Jan 31, 2027

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Principal Product Manager The Principal Product Manager joins the Azure High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence team to define and deliver hardware roadmaps, software, and services for technical computing workloads. This role focuses on high-scale AI training and inference, including large language models, traditional HPC modeling, simulations, remote visualization, and immersive gaming experiences. The candidate will analyze customer signals using AI to identify market opportunities, manage product lifecycles from private to public preview, and translate complex technical AI concepts into business value. Key responsibilities include building AI-driven systems for team scaling, defining success metrics like precision and recall, and collaborating with Software and Hardware Engineering teams to resolve interoperability challenges. The role requires expertise in AI-first thinking, product roadmap development, and navigating security and ethical compliance while solving complex problems involving supercomputer-class capabilities for research and industrial applications.

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Median $204200 from 424 postings across 77 companies.

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Skills

Azure AI HPC Large Language Models Data Science APIs Product Roadmap SDL) c Telemetry KPIs OKRs Generative AI

What you'll do

Analyze customer and market signals using AI to identify unmet needs, emerging trends, and opportunities for new products.
Develop and advocate for a long-term product vision and roadmap that prioritizes AI as a core differentiator.
Translate complex technical AI concepts into clear business value to secure buy-in from senior leadership and stakeholders.
Define success metrics including OKRs and KPIs such as precision, recall, usage, and cost of goods sold (COGS).
Manage the product lifecycle by prioritizing backlogs, resolving trade-offs, and ensuring alignment between engineering and marketing.
Collaborate with design and engineering teams to create user stories, prototypes, and high-quality technical specifications.
Execute go-to-market strategies including content creation, public preview transitions, and customer advocacy programs.
Ensure all products meet rigorous security, ethical compliance, and performance standards for mission-critical customers.

What we're looking for

Proven track record working with complex and distributed computer systems serving mission-critical customers.
Expertise in Artificial Intelligence and translating complex technical AI concepts into business value.
Ability to articulate a vision, inspire stakeholders, and lead cross-functional teams to success.
Experience performing market research, competitive analysis, and identifying product-market fit.
Proficiency in using AI for trend analysis, sentiment evaluation, and generating synthetic feedback.
Ability to define and manage product roadmaps, backlogs, and technical trade-offs across divisional boundaries.
Skill in defining success metrics including OKRs, KPIs, and specific AI metrics like precision and recall.
Experience collaborating with engineering, design, and marketing teams to ensure security and ethical compliance.

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