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The Principal Product Manager joins the Personalized Data Product area to build the per-user content and context foundation for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This role operates at the intersection of product strategy and technical architecture, defining the multi-year strategy and product architecture for personalized impact, context, and content pillars. You will translate customer feedback into platform requirements, establish product contracts for activity signals, and architect an operating model for impact measurement and diagnostics. Key responsibilities include leading the architecture for a secure, fast, and predictable personalized index while driving extensibility across search, connectors, and agentic experiences. You must leverage expertise in distributed systems, search and indexing, retrieval and ranking, and AI/ML product architecture to solve complex problems regarding latency, freshness, access control, and platform integration.
What does a Product Manager earn?
Median $199250 from 783 postings across 95 companies.
Define the end-to-end product architecture and multi-year strategy for Personalized Data pillars.
Translate user jobs and quality signals into platform requirements, architectural principles, and measurable outcomes.
Establish product contracts for activity signals, index behavior, latency, freshness, and platform integration.
Architect an operating model for impact measurement, scenario-based evaluation, and per-answer attribution.
Lead the architecture for a secure, fast, and predictable personalized index including search-stack isolation.
Drive extensibility across Copilot, Microsoft 365 search, and agentic orchestrators for new activity signals.
Create decision frameworks to make explicit choices regarding customer value, cost, latency, and reliability.
Provide technical product leadership by mentoring PMs and communicating architectural decisions to executive audiences.
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 or disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (preferred).
Demonstrated experience leading technically complex platform products from strategy and architecture through execution and measurable outcomes (preferred).
Deep understanding of distributed systems, search and indexing, retrieval and ranking, data platforms, or AI/ML product architecture (preferred).
Experience with Microsoft 365, Copilot, enterprise search, personalization, semantic retrieval, or knowledge systems (preferred).
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Conversational AI
Agentic Systems
Knowledge Systems
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Telemetry
Experiment Design
Product Evaluation
Search and Retrieval
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Copilot Studio
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Conversational AI
Agentic Systems
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Microsoft 365
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Telemetry
Experiment Design
Product Evaluation
Knowledge Systems
Search and Retrieval
Privacy
Security
Compliance
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