Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $165,600–$296,400 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Mar 30, 2027

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $204k

This role $231k

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This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $176,450–$231,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $231k versus about $204k for comparable roles.

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About Microsoft

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 653 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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The Principal Product Manager joins the M365 Core Platform team to shape the infrastructure strategy for M365 and Copilot. This role addresses complex technical challenges involving storage fabric, performance, scale, fleet capacity, and LLM infrastructure. The manager will develop product theses, identify architectural tradeoffs, and drive initiatives that connect demand, supply, and workload characteristics into cohesive platform strategies. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing high-impact problems across multiple layers of the stack, such as GPU capacity, routing, caching, and reliability. To succeed, the candidate must utilize telemetry, experimentation, data analysis, and AI agents to model tradeoffs and accelerate decisions. The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and LLM inference while navigating the intersection of software speed and physical infrastructure constraints to resolve structural bottlenecks and improve overall system efficiency.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $199850 from 692 postings across 93 companies.

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Skills

LLM AI Infrastructure Distributed Systems Cloud Infrastructure Storage Fabric GPU Infrastructure Performance Engineering Capacity Management Telemetry Data Analysis Automation Resource Optimization Caching Routing Copilot M365

What you'll do

Lead technical initiatives across Storage Fabric, Performance & Scale, Fleet & Capacity, and LLM API.
Resolve complex infrastructure problems by developing technical theses, architectural choices, and product roadmaps.
Manage the scaling of M365 and Copilot through improved workload portability and resource efficiency.
Align demand, supply, and economic factors to drive capacity and investment decisions for AI infrastructure.
Identify architectural simplifications to remove structural bottlenecks in storage, compute, and GPU systems.
Use telemetry, experimentation, and AI-driven analysis to quantify opportunities and test hypotheses.
Translate evolving hardware and model trends into platform requirements and investment priorities.
Communicate complex technical and economic tradeoffs to senior leaders to facilitate high-level decision making.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development (or equivalent).
Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background check requirements.
Bachelor's Degree and 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development (preferred).
6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (preferred).
8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (preferred).
8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (preferred).
Experience leading high-stakes technical initiatives across multiple engineering organizations and layers of cloud infrastructure (preferred).
Technical expertise in LLM inference, GPU infrastructure, storage, capacity management, and performance engineering (preferred).

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