Principal Product Manager, Responsible AI

Microsoft

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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Feb 27, 2027

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Similar $212k
This role $209k
$127k most similar roles pay here $291k

This role pays more than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $180,900–$242,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

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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 598 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager, Responsible AI

The Principal Product Manager- Responsible AI - CoreAI joins the Microsoft Responsible AI team to define the future of trustworthy AI across the company's platform. This role focuses on building and scaling capabilities that allow enterprises to operationalize safety, security, transparency, and compliance throughout the entire AI lifecycle. You will develop features for AI evaluations, red teaming, risk detection, guardrails, monitoring, and governance workflows while translating emerging risks into scalable products. The work involves collaborating with engineering, research, legal, and security teams to address complex technical challenges in regulated industries. Key responsibilities include defining long-term roadmaps, conducting customer discovery, and establishing success metrics for platform adoption. You will navigate the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, and policy to ensure systems are aligned with organizational requirements while managing products that support model and agent development.

What does a Product Manager earn?

Median $204200 from 424 postings across 77 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for Responsible AI capabilities within Microsoft.
  • Build platform capabilities that enable enterprises to operationalize AI safety, security, governance, transparency, and compliance.
  • Design scalable technical features for AI evaluations, red teaming, guardrails, risk detection, and monitoring.
  • Conduct customer discovery with enterprise clients to translate emerging risks into differentiated product capabilities.
  • Partner with research, legal, and security teams to anticipate future technology and regulatory requirements.
  • Define success metrics and use telemetry data to improve product adoption and customer value.
  • Represent Microsoft at industry forums and with partners focused on trustworthy AI standards.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience as a software product manager or C-level startup executive focusing on B2B software.
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in product, service, program management, or software development.
  • 4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market.
  • 6+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market.
  • 6+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience.
  • Experience defining product strategy and shipping complex technical products.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.

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