Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago
Closes
Mar 21, 2027

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This role $209k
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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.

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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

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.

What does a Product Manager earn in Washington?

Median $208800 from 51 postings across 17 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define the vision, multi-year roadmap, and success metrics for the Developer Experience platform.
  • Own the product definition for developer-facing APIs, including core retrieval and integration patterns.
  • Determine which capabilities remain shared platform features versus those managed by individual agent teams.
  • Design onboarding paths, documentation, and self-serve tooling to simplify the experience for new agent teams.
  • Define requirements for observability, tracing, and diagnostics to improve system debuggability for developers.
  • Translate specific agent needs into technical requirements for recall, latency budgets, and evidence formats.
  • Author technical specifications and program plans while communicating risks and trade-offs to leadership.
  • Represent the platform's developer experience with senior stakeholders across various internal and partner organizations.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development (or equivalent).
  • Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background checks.
  • Significant experience shipping developer-facing platforms, APIs, or SDKs including ownership of API design, versioning, and deprecation (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to define platform strategy across organizational boundaries and influence senior leaders without direct authority (preferred).
  • Technical depth in distributed systems, latency, throughput, and cost trade-offs to engage with engineers in design reviews (preferred).
  • Track record of turning customer/developer feedback into prioritized roadmaps and measurable outcomes (preferred).
  • Experience with search, information retrieval, RAG, grounding, or LLM-based agent platforms (preferred).
  • Experience serving first-party and third-party developers including documentation and onboarding models (preferred).

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