Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Apr 3, 2027

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This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $176,450–$231,012 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $204k 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 648 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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The Principal Product Manager joins the Microsoft IQ team to build a unified intelligence layer for enterprise AI. This role involves defining product strategy, requirements, and roadmaps to help organizations connect, organize, discover, govern, and use business knowledge and context. You will design experiences for AI agents and Copilot, translating broad visions into measurable success criteria while partnering across engineering, design, and research teams. Key responsibilities include engaging directly with customers to validate product direction and translating feedback into prioritized improvements. You must demonstrate expertise in enterprise cloud, data, AI, and developer-platform products. Core competencies include understanding modern AI agent experiences, including retrieval, APIs, identity, security, and governance, to solve the technical problem of providing trusted context across diverse organizational knowledge sources.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $199625 from 738 postings across 94 companies.

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Skills

Microsoft Fabric Azure SQL DB Azure Cosmos DB Azure PostgreSQL Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Service Bus Azure Event Grid Power BI AI OneLake Azure Data Engineering APIs Governance Data Integration Big Data Analytics

What you'll do

Define the product strategy, requirements, and roadmap for Microsoft IQ to achieve measurable success criteria.
Design experiences for organizations to connect, organize, discover, govern, and use business knowledge with AI.
Partner with internal product teams to deliver cohesive experiences across AI, productivity, data, and developer platforms.
Lead customer scenarios from initial product definition through implementation, evaluation, and final release.
Engage directly with customers and partners to validate product direction and translate feedback into improvements.
Define and monitor product signals such as adoption, active usage, quality, and customer outcomes.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience (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).
Experience defining and delivering enterprise cloud, data, AI, agent, or developer-platform products (preferred).
Experience delivering products requiring collaboration across multiple engineering teams, services, platforms, and organizational boundaries (preferred).

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