Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Apr 19, 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 will lead the strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end execution for the platform underlying Work IQ MCP and its provider ecosystem. This individual contributor role focuses on retrieval and its connection to federated MCP servers, shaping how agents discover and retrieve relevant evidence across indexed content and live sources. Key responsibilities include defining requirements for relevance, source coverage, and ranking while building a scalable provider ecosystem that supports domain fidelity, security, and reliability. The role requires translating complex architecture and customer needs into executable plans using telemetry, evaluations, and production evidence. Necessary skills include experience with APIs, distributed systems, identity, authorization, and search. The work involves solving technical problems related to retrieval-augmented generation, federated data access, and providing a governed interface for workplace knowledge.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $199125 from 772 postings across 95 companies.

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Skills

AI Agents APIs Distributed Systems SaaS PaaS Identity and Authorization Telemetry Search Federated Data Access Microsoft 365 Observability

What you'll do

Own and evolve the strategy and prioritized roadmap for the Work IQ shared platform and provider ecosystem.
Define product requirements and success measures for retrieval relevance, source coverage, freshness, and structured evidence.
Partner with engineering to define how indexed retrieval and live federated sources work together for ranking and reliability.
Establish requirements for source references and integration patterns that enable agents to move from evidence to actions.
Define provider onboarding, capability discovery, and lifecycle management to build a scalable provider ecosystem.
Partner with security and governance teams to define requirements for identity, authorization, auditability, and reliability.
Coordinate work across provider, consumer, and engineering teams to drive follow-through on commitments and product outcomes.
Engage directly with customers and developers to translate feedback into scalable platform improvements.

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).
Experience leading technical platform, API, search, data, developer, SaaS, or PaaS products from definition through production adoption (preferred).
Experience leading through influence across organizational boundaries and maintaining accountability for end-to-end product outcomes (preferred).
Experience operating autonomously through ambiguity to translate complex needs into prioritized roadmaps and executable requirements (preferred).
Experience engaging directly with customers, developers, or partners to translate feedback into scalable product improvements (preferred).
Experience with enterprise search, RAG, AI/LLM-based agents, MCP, or federated data access (preferred).

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