Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
32 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Mar 31, 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 649 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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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What you'll do

  • Define the multi-year roadmap and success metrics for the Developer Experience pillar.
  • Own the product definition for the developer-facing API surface and core retrieval APIs.
  • Determine shared platform capabilities and drive the consolidation of bespoke integrations into supported patterns.
  • Design the onboarding path, documentation, and self-serve tooling for new agent teams.
  • Specify observability, tracing, and diagnostics requirements to improve platform debuggability.
  • Translate agent needs into platform requirements for recall, latency budgets, and evidence formats.
  • Author technical specifications and program plans to drive execution across multiple engineering teams.
  • Represent the platform to senior stakeholders to align roadmaps and land key product decisions.

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.
  • Significant experience shipping developer-facing platforms, APIs, or SDKs, including ownership of API design, versioning, and deprecation (preferred).
  • Demonstrated ability to define platform strategy and influence senior engineering and product leaders without direct authority (preferred).
  • Technical depth in distributed systems and trade-offs among latency, throughput, and cost (preferred).
  • Experience with search, information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, or LLM-based agent platforms (preferred).
  • Experience serving first-party and third-party developers, including documentation and onboarding (preferred).
  • Prior experience as a software engineer (preferred).

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