Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Mar 23, 2027

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Similar $202k
This role $209k
$127k most similar roles pay here $291k

This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $176,675–$227,675 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $202k 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

Microsoft currently has 686 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

As a Principal Product Manager for Azure Bastion, you will shape the next chapter of secure virtual machine access over RDP and SSH. You will own the product strategy, define multi-quarter roadmaps, and manage the end-to-end backlog to improve security, simplicity, and confidence for users. Your daily work involves coordinating with engineering, design, security, and partner teams to resolve complex problems regarding authentication, session workflows, and infrastructure connectivity across Windows and Linux workloads. You will navigate technical constraints in networking, identity, and cloud architecture while translating ambiguous requirements into shippable increments. Key responsibilities include managing investment trade-offs, ensuring least-privilege access, and improving service metrics like connection success rates and reliability. This role addresses the critical challenge of providing secure, managed access to infrastructure within complex enterprise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

What does a Product Manager earn in Remote?

Median $199025 from 82 postings across 31 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define multi-quarter product strategies for Azure Bastion based on customer needs and market opportunities.
  • Own the strategy for seamless RDP and SSH access across Windows and Linux workloads.
  • Determine investment priorities by balancing customer demand, security value, and engineering effort.
  • Manage and prioritize the product backlog to translate complex problems into clear requirements.
  • Partner with security teams to integrate least-privilege access, session auditing, and enterprise policies.
  • Lead discovery and feedback loops with administrators, developers, and security teams.
  • Coordinate across engineering, design, and networking teams to resolve dependencies and ensure coherent integrations.
  • Track success metrics including adoption rates, connection performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

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 Check and other required security screenings.
  • Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development (preferred).
  • 5+ years of product management experience building infrastructure, cloud platform, networking, security, or developer-facing products (preferred).
  • 4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (preferred).
  • 6+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (preferred).
  • 6+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (preferred).
  • Technical fluency in cloud architecture, networking, security, and identity (preferred).

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