Principal Product Manager
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $175,000–$231,425 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $203k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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 649 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 606 roles with salary data.
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The Principal Product Manager joins the Enterprise Search and Grounding Platform team to drive strategy and execution for Copilot and Agents quality gains. This role involves defining the multi-year roadmap and success metrics for the Developer Experience pillar, specifically owning the product definition for developer-facing APIs and integration patterns. You will design onboarding paths, documentation, and self-serve tooling while specifying observability, tracing, and diagnostics as core product requirements. Key responsibilities include translating agent needs into requirements for recall, latency budgets, and evidence formats. You must demonstrate technical depth in distributed systems, search, information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, and LLM-based agent platforms. The role requires managing trade-offs between latency, throughput, and cost to provide trusted, permission-aware evidence through indexing, retrieval, and ranking.
What does a Product Manager earn in Washington?
Median $223300 from 111 postings across 24 companies.
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