Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 7 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Apr 17, 2027

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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 694 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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The Principal Product Manager joins the Application Intelligence team to define a new product area where AI agents understand and act on business work. This role involves defining the product strategy, roadmap, and platform capabilities for experiences spanning application discovery, process analysis, and agentic actions. You will work backwards from customer needs to translate ambiguous requirements into validated opportunities, owning user journeys and success metrics. Key responsibilities include partnering with engineering and design to prototype experiences, making platform boundary decisions, and influencing roadmaps across Business Applications, Work IQ, and Agent 365. You must navigate complex enterprise data, process signals, and AI agent capabilities to create reusable intelligence. Success requires technical depth in software development, enterprise applications, data platforms, and integration to solve business process problems.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $199125 from 772 postings across 95 companies.

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Skills

AI Agents Enterprise Software Data Platforms Application Architecture Agent 365 Process Intelligence Software Development data, integration Prototypes Experimentation Workflows

What you'll do

Define the product strategy and roadmap for emerging Application Intelligence experiences and capabilities.
Translate ambiguous customer needs into validated product opportunities and high-value business problems.
Own requirements and end-to-end user journeys for application discovery, process analysis, and agentic actions.
Partner with engineering and design to rapidly prototype and validate new experiences with customers.
Define success metrics and experimentation plans to determine whether to scale, iterate, or stop investments.
Make platform boundary decisions to create reusable intelligence capabilities across Microsoft products.
Influence roadmaps and dependencies across internal teams to deliver coherent end-to-end customer outcomes.
Communicate product strategy, customer evidence, and trade-offs to senior leadership and partners.

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 every two years.
Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience (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).
4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (preferred).
Experience defining and launching complex enterprise software, platform, or AI-powered products (preferred).
Experience defining products that span data, applications, workflows, and AI or agent experiences (preferred).

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