Principal Product Manager - CoreAI

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We are building the industry’s leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) first application stack with enhanced reliability, performance and scale. Azure AI Foundry is redefining model-forward development with new user interface/user experience (UI/UX) patterns, runtimes to build agents, orchestrating across multiple agents, and a reimagined management and observability layer.

We are a small, friendly, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI agent era. We run lean, obsess about customers, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager with technical depth, customer empathy, and an abundance of energy. The right candidate is highly effective, taking the initiative and thriving in building products that differentiate in the most competitive segment of the industry.

As a Principal Product Manager for Foundry developer experiences, you will deeply understand customer problems, and use a data-driven approach combined with creativity, curiosity and AI expertise to drive product features through design, development, market fit and the relentless pursuit of scale adoption.

Azure AI Foundry delivers exceptional innovation to the market, owing to our industry-leading Product Managers. We bring together all the ingredients for a successful product across Engineering, Research and Go To Market functions partnering as peers, working towards a common goal. To thrive in this role, you will create clarity in ambiguity, lead and energize cross-functional teams, and deliver powerful features with measurable outcomes. Grow your career by joining one of the fastest growing products in Microsoft!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience leading product teams building products.
• Experience building/designing AI applications stacks and agents, including use of conversational UX, agent frameworks, and platforms like GPT and Copilot.
• Technical depth with solutions leveraging generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), or cloud services architecture through shipped products or solutions.
  

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• Track record of success in planning and delivering commercial software as a service (SaaS) or enterprise technology solutions from pitch and envisioning to pilot and adoption.
• Experience presenting and explaining product and technology topics in-depth to executive and technical audiences.
• Business development and/or Go To Market-facing experience.
• Hands-on experience or solid familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack (M365 Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio, AI agents, Azure OpenAI, Graph Connectors, Microsoft Teams extensibility platform, etc.).
• Embrace diversity of thoughts and backgrounds and lead others to do the same
• Aptitude for analytical thinking, disciplined problem solving, and data analysis skills used to identify the root cause of issues.

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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• Drive building world-class AI application stacks that will delight enterprises and developers, delivering proven business results.

• Own a product area and be responsible for understanding developer needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations.

• Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of customers quickly and iteratively.

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, customer-first, product development cycle.

• Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with UX, Data Science, Engineering, AI research, and Product Marketing teams.

• Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research.
• Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to build exceptional consumer-grade applications.
• Embody our culture and values