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About Microsoft
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
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Principal Product Strategist, Commerce serves as an individual-contributor force-multiplier for the Microsoft Commerce team, providing the analytical and narrative spine for the commerce portfolio. The role involves developing first-principles perspectives on agentic commerce, designing monetization and payer models across Consumer, Merchant, Partner, and Payments segments, and building opportunity sizing models to justify investment asks with ARR and ROI metrics. You will create decision frameworks for high-stakes bets, synthesize complex cross-thread conflicts into a single coherent strategy, and craft the narrative for senior stakeholders. Key requirements include expertise in business model design, market forecasting, and commerce domain knowledge regarding retail, marketplaces, and payments. The role requires proficiency in navigating the emerging commerce-protocol landscape, including ACP, UCP, AP2, and MCP, while addressing how AI and LLM product economics reshape unit costs and monetization within the commerce space.
Develop a first-principles perspective on the agentic-commerce market and its underlying protocol landscape.
Design and pressure-test monetization models across consumer, merchant, and partner segments.
Build opportunity models and forecasts to justify investment asks with ARR and ROI metrics.
Create structured decision frameworks to guide high-stakes product bets and strategic sequencing.
Synthesize multiple commerce threads into one coherent strategy while identifying potential conflicts.
Translate complex analysis into clear narratives for senior leadership and investment cases.
Defend strategic positions and adapt viewpoints based on new evidence during executive reviews.
What we're looking for
A Master's degree and 4+ years of experience in marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, or partner organizations.
A Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience in marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, or partner organizations.
Master's degree and 8+ years of experience in marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, or partner organizations (preferred).
Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, or partner organizations (preferred).
10+ years in product strategy, corporate strategy, strategy consulting, investing, or a strategy-heavy product leadership role with depth in platform or marketplace businesses (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to design monetization models from first principles and build credible market sizing and forecasting models (preferred).
Proven track record of creating decision frameworks for ambiguous products, synthesizing complex narratives for executives, and experience in commerce/payments domains (preferred).
Experience in agentic commerce, digital payments, AI/LLM product economics, and shaping investment cases that cleared a senior bar (preferred).