Principal Product Manager
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$229,100 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $203k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 644 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 624 roles with salary data.
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Principal Product Manager The Principal Product Manager joins the Enterprise Search and Grounding Platform team to drive strategy and execution for Copilot and Agents quality gains. This role focuses on the Developer Experience pillar, where you will define the multi-year roadmap, success metrics, and product definition for developer-facing APIs. You will manage the core retrieval API, integrate Work IQ patterns, and design onboarding paths including documentation and self-serve tooling. Key responsibilities include defining requirements for recall, latency budgets, and evidence formats while ensuring robust observability and diagnostics. You will collaborate with engineering teams to translate agent needs into platform capabilities. The role requires expertise in search, information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, and LLM-based agent platforms. You must navigate complex trade-offs between latency, throughput, and cost while managing technical requirements for permission-aware evidence within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
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Median $208800 from 51 postings across 17 companies.
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