Senior Product Manager

In this Senior Product Manager role at Microsoft, you will help build reliable finance experiences by improving Excel and Copilot for finance professionals. The work focuses on finance accuracy, validating AI-generated artifacts, and translating customer learning into reusable product capabilities.

Location and Salary

• Location: Redmond, WA (onsite)
• Salary: USD 119,800 - 261,000 per year
• Product Management IC4 pay range (U.S. typical): USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year
• Alternate location ranges: San Francisco Bay area and New York City metro: USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience: 5+ years of product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience
• Finance experience: Hands-on experience building and reviewing financial models or owning and improving recurring finance processes (FP&A, accounting, tax, corporate finance, or finance technology)
• Excel and modeling: Experience with Excel and modeling skills, including how source data becomes models, reports, insights, and decisions
• Judgment: Sound judgment to identify material errors, challenge assumptions, and assess whether AI output is fit for its intended business use
• Communication: Clear written and verbal communication to explain complex concepts and financial reasoning
• AI curiosity: Curiosity about AI tools and methods and willingness to learn quickly
• Automation: Experience automating recurring finance workflows using Excel macros, VBA, Office Scripts, or similar tools
• Problem solving: Experience taking an open-ended problem to a practical solution and improving it through feedback
• Cross-team delivery: Experience working across teams to understand stakeholder needs, prioritize improvements, and deliver measurable results in finance workflows

Responsibilities

• Partner with a small product team to build and test prototypes with customers in their real finance workflows; identify patterns and convert lessons into reusable capabilities with engineering, design, and product teams.
• Review AI-generated spreadsheets and artifacts for financial correctness, sound assumptions, and usability; translate judgment into reference examples, test cases, and scoring criteria; build reusable AI workflows that account for realistic data, exceptions, and financial controls.
• Own finance-specific quality criteria, align with customers and product teams, and ensure automated tests match expert review to catch material errors; define evidence and human checks needed and sign off on finance readiness for customer validation.
• Define product requirements using customer feedback and test results; improve product quality and measure progress against agreed baselines, including accuracy, review effort, and time saved.
• Own finance scenarios and the financial accuracy of demos and customer stories; partner with Product and Marketing to explain what customers can accomplish using measured results and customer validation.
• Build and curate a practical Finance learning path using real-world workflows and hands-on examples so product managers, engineers, and designers can apply financial judgment.
• Help build a network of practicing finance experts to validate priority workflows, review evaluation criteria, and provide feedback on prototypes, drawing on deeper specialization as needed.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.

Technologies

• Excel
• VBA
• Office Scripts
• Excel macros

What You Will Work On

Microsoft aims to make Excel and Copilot more useful and reliable for finance professionals. The team’s focus is to reduce time spent on routine work while increasing support for decisions that require expert judgment, supported by reliable finance accuracy and validated AI outputs.

You will help build reliable finance products by conducting customer-centered prototype testing, validating AI-generated artifacts against finance correctness, and using measurable results and customer validation to shape finance scenarios for demos and customer stories.

You will also build finance expertise across the team by curating a practical learning path and supporting a network of practicing finance experts to validate priority workflows and evaluation criteria.

Application Timing

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