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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
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The Senior Product Manager joins the team responsible for search experiences within Microsoft Copilot and related applications. This role involves taking search initiatives from early concepts to general availability by translating strategy into clear requirements, user stories, and success criteria. You will manage complex dependencies across engineering, data science, research, and design teams while owning the product roadmap and prioritizing backlogs. Key responsibilities include defining release criteria for quality, security, and responsible AI, as well as measuring success through relevance, precision, recall, and engagement metrics. You must possess technical depth regarding APIs, infrastructure, and AI models to conduct A/B tests and experiments. The role specifically addresses the technical challenge of building reliable, high-quality information retrieval and large language model-powered search experiences at scale.
What does a Product Manager earn?
Median $199125 from 772 postings across 95 companies.
Translate team priorities into clear requirements, user stories, and success criteria for shipped experiences.
Drive the product roadmap by prioritizing backlogs and aligning with engineering on technical tradeoffs.
Coordinate across feature teams and partners to identify risks and remove blockers across the technology stack.
Define release criteria and lead scenario walkthroughs to ensure quality, security, and responsible AI standards.
Set and measure success metrics for AI-powered search, including relevance, precision, recall, and engagement.
Run experiments and A/B tests using technical knowledge of APIs, infrastructure, and AI models to drive improvements.
Use customer feedback and telemetry to identify issues and inform the next set of product improvements.
Establish planning, status, and release processes to keep cross-functional teams aligned and moving quickly.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of experience training or evaluating search/information retrieval systems as a Product Manager, Software Developer, or Data Scientist (preferred).
Experience with search, retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, or large language model-powered experiences (preferred).
Solid technical depth including comfort with system architecture and APIs to engage closely with engineering and data science.
Track record of shipping complex, cross-team products or features at scale from early concept to general availability (preferred).
AI
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Conversational AI
Agentic Systems
Responsible AI
Microsoft 365
Copilot
Telemetry
Experiment Design
Product Evaluation
Knowledge Systems
Search and Retrieval
Privacy
Security
Compliance
Governance
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ML
RAG
Conversational AI
Agentic Systems
Knowledge Systems
Responsible AI
Telemetry
Experiment Design
Product Evaluation
Search and Retrieval
Microsoft 365
Copilot
Privacy
Security
Compliance
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Copilot
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Telemetry
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