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Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Microsoft

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USD 139,900-274,800 / year
Posted on Sep 4, 2025

Principal Product Manager

Multiple Locations, United States

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Date posted
Sep 03, 2025
Job number
1864108
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Product Management
Discipline
Product Management
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Azure is entering a new era - one where Artificial Intelligence (AI) doesn’t just assist, it empowers. As the gateway to the cloud, the Azure Portal is being reimagined with intelligent, agentic experiences that transform how users build, manage, and innovate.


We’re looking for a visionary Principal Product Manager to lead the charge in bringing the next generation of cloud infrastructure experiences to life within the Azure Portal. This is your opportunity to shape the future of cloud interaction - where complex tasks become conversational, insights are surfaced proactively, and every user feels like a power user. If you’re passionate about crafting magical, intuitive experiences that blend cutting-edge AI with deep customer empathy, we want you on this journey.

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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ year(s) people management experience.
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 or preferred qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years people management experience.
  • 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
  • 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
  • 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

Product Management M5 - 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 24, 2025.

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Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the product roadmap for how our customers interact with core Azure services like Compute, Storage, and Networking in the Azure Portal.
  • Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with User Experience (UX), Data Science, Engineering, AI research, and Product Marketing teams to build exceptional consumer-grade applications.
  • Partner with user research to deeply understand customer pain points, behaviors, and expectations.
  • Translate insights into intelligent, acessible, and scalable product features that improve customer satisfaction and reduce friction.
  • Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research to validate hypotheses, iterate on features, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Lead customer engagements and feedback loops to refine and evolve AI powered experiences.
  • Manage, coach, and mentor a team of high potential product managers.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.