Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Apr 26, 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 692 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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The Principal Product Manager joins the Copilot Chat Innovation team to lead strategic initiatives for long-running research tasks. This role involves owning the end-to-end product strategy, multi-year roadmap, and execution for AI-powered experiences, specifically focusing on source discovery, analysis, synthesis, and report generation. You will translate ambiguous customer needs into durable platform requirements while managing technical tradeoffs in planning, orchestration, retrieval, and grounding. Key responsibilities include defining product quality evaluation strategies, establishing success measures for task completion and safety, and driving the team's rhythm of business. You must demonstrate technical fluency in building AI/ML platforms, agentic systems, and RAG. The role solves complex problems regarding multistep reasoning, latency, cost, and transparency to deliver dependable, high-quality research reports within an enterprise productivity context.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $197750 from 776 postings across 90 companies.

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Skills

AI ML RAG Conversational AI Agentic Systems Orchestration Retrieval Grounding Responsible AI Telemetry Experiment Design Microsoft 365 Copilot Security Privacy Compliance

What you'll do

Own the product strategy, multi-year roadmap, and execution for long-running research tasks in Copilot Chat.
Ship end-to-end AI experiences from concept to production, including source discovery, synthesis, and report generation.
Translate customer needs and competitive insights into durable platform-level requirements and technical specifications.
Lead the product quality and evaluation strategy using representative scenario sets, rubrics, and online metrics.
Partner with engineering and applied science to make technical tradeoffs regarding orchestration, latency, and model behavior.
Establish success measures for task completion, output quality, engagement, safety, and operational health.
Build and sustain senior cross-company relationships to align independent roadmaps and resolve high-impact dependencies.
Drive the team's rhythm of business by leading planning, setting priorities, and running product reviews.

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.
Experience owning a large, complex product scope and delivering end-to-end software products, AI-powered features, or platform capabilities (preferred).
Technical fluency in building and evaluating AI products, including AI/ML platforms, agentic systems, and RAG/grounding (preferred).
Experience taking a zero-to-one AI capability from problem definition through experimentation, launch, and scaled operation (preferred).
Experience shipping enterprise AI experiences with privacy, security, compliance, governance, safety, and Responsible AI requirements (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to build cross-organization relationships and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority (preferred).
Experience driving a product team's rhythm of business, including planning, prioritization, and review cadences (preferred).

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