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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
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The Principal Product Manager joins the Data Science and Applied AI team within the Commercial Engineering & AI organization. In this leadership role, you will own complex initiatives from initial customer problem identification through product strategy, experimentation, and scaled delivery. You will define roadmaps and measurable outcomes for AI agents, evaluation and observability, data products, and machine learning systems. Daily responsibilities include translating business needs into requirements, prototyping solutions, and establishing operating rhythms across engineering and data science. You must utilize telemetry, evaluations, and customer signals to improve product quality and responsible operation. Key required competencies include experience with AI/ML, generative AI, agentic, data, and cloud products, alongside expertise in product development, governance, and influencing senior technical and business leaders to close critical capability gaps.
What does a Product Manager earn?
Median $199625 from 738 postings across 94 companies.
Define product strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes for AI agents, data products, and machine learning systems.
Establish clear ownership, milestones, and operating rhythms across product, engineering, and data science teams.
Translate customer and business needs into product requirements and prototypes for rapid experimentation.
Shape Microsoft platform requirements and influence partner roadmaps to close critical capability gaps.
Use telemetry, evaluations, and customer signals to improve product quality, reliability, and responsible operation.
Build alignment with senior technical and business leaders to drive complex initiatives across the enterprise.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years of experience in product, service, project, or program management, software development, data/AI, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of people management experience.
Bachelor's Degree and 15+ years of experience in product, service, project, or program management, software development, data/AI, or equivalent experience (preferred).
5+ years of people management experience (preferred).
6+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (preferred).
8+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (preferred).
8+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (preferred).
Experience building AI/ML, generative AI, agentic, data, cloud, or large-scale enterprise products (preferred).
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