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The Principal Product Manager joins the Copilot Work Memory team to lead a complex product area for Memory in Copilot Chat. This role involves owning the multi-year roadmap, product strategy, and end-to-end execution for how the system captures, refreshes, retrieves, and uses durable user context. You will translate ambiguous customer needs into platform requirements, balancing near-term delivery with long-term architecture. Key responsibilities include leading AI quality and evaluation strategies, defining success measures for personalization and safety, and partnering with engineering and applied science on technical choices regarding generation, storage, and latency. You will utilize skills in RAG, grounding, agentic systems, and conversational AI to solve problems related to memory freshness, privacy, and enterprise compliance. The role requires navigating complex dependencies across Microsoft 365 and Copilot Chat.
What does a Product Manager earn?
Median $199625 from 738 postings across 94 companies.
Own the product strategy, multi-year roadmap, and execution for Work Memory in Copilot Chat.
Ship end-to-end AI experiences for capturing, retrieving, and controlling user memory from concept to scale.
Translate customer needs and feedback into platform-level requirements and durable product strategies.
Lead the product quality and evaluation strategy, including experiment design, rubrics, and failure analysis.
Partner with engineering and applied science to make technical tradeoffs regarding generation, storage, and latency.
Establish success measures for relevance, personalization, safety, and operational health.
Drive trustworthy design by ensuring transparency, privacy, and Responsible AI compliance.
Align cross-company roadmaps and resolve high-impact dependencies with senior stakeholders across Microsoft.
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.
Experience owning a large, complex product scope and delivering end-to-end software products, AI-powered features, or platform capabilities (preferred).
Technical fluency in building and evaluating AI products, including AI/ML platforms (preferred).
Experience taking a zero-to-one AI capability from problem definition through scaled operation, especially with memory, RAG, or conversational AI (preferred).
Experience shipping enterprise AI experiences with privacy, security, compliance, governance, safety, and Responsible AI requirements (preferred).
Experience using data, telemetry, experimentation, and structured quality methods to make product decisions (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to build cross-organization relationships and influence senior stakeholders through significant ambiguity (preferred).
AI
ML
RAG
Conversational AI
Agentic Systems
Responsible AI
Microsoft 365
Copilot
Telemetry
Experiment Design
Product Evaluation
Knowledge Systems
Search and Retrieval
Privacy
Security
Compliance
Governance