Principal Product Manager

The Principal Product Manager role at Microsoft (IC3) focuses on shaping Microsoft WorkIQ capabilities for human-agent collaboration. The position emphasizes data-model product decisions, evaluation design, and iterative experimentation with models and agents while building for trust in real customer workflows.

Location

Redmond, WA (onsite)

Compensation

USD 142,800 - 304,200 per year

• The typical base pay range across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
• A different range applies for specific work locations in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area: USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Role Summary

Own Microsoft WorkIQ product decisions that enable conversations, meetings, and shared work to become understanding, decisions, and action. Define evaluations and quality thresholds that guide product decisions and release readiness. Design for durable solutions while continuing to validate through model and agent experimentation, including privacy, permissions, governance, and safe disclosure.

Responsibilities

• Define Microsoft WorkIQ experiences that convert conversations, meetings, and shared work into understanding, decisions, and action.
• Turn ambiguity into clear priorities, make timely decisions with incomplete information, and provide engineering the clarity required to move forward.
• Define how interactions, context, and knowledge are represented, balancing fast iteration with durable design choices.
• Translate customer scenarios into evaluation datasets, scoring rubrics, and quality thresholds that guide product decisions and release readiness.
• Analyze large-scale interaction data and partner with data scientists to design experiments, separate signal from noise, and measure customer and business impact.
• Prototype and test capabilities, investigate failures, and use hands-on learning to inform product choices.
• Align engineering, design, research, and data science to deliver focused increments and adapt based on evidence.
• Track model and competitive advances to identify differentiated opportunities and durable investments.
• Embed privacy, permissions, governance, and safe disclosure into human-agent interactions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (including design, addressing product market fit, and launch, including internal tool/framework).
• 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (including growing customer base, expanding customer usage, or avoiding customer churn).
• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (including competitive disruption or taking the place of an established competing product).
• Experience in product management or a related technical role delivering software products in partnership with engineering teams.
• Experience using data analysis, experimentation, and AI/ML evaluations to inform product decisions.

Microsoft Mission and Values

• Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
• Values include respect, integrity, and accountability, supporting a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Application Window

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.