Microsoft
Principal Product Manager
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets strategy and leads delivery of developer-facing search and grounding platform capabilities that improve Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent quality.
What you'll do
- Define the platform vision, roadmap, success metrics, and developer-facing API strategy; guide shared capabilities and integration patterns.
- Create onboarding, documentation, self-serve tooling, observability, tracing, and diagnostics that help agent teams build and troubleshoot independently.
- Drive execution and alignment across engineering teams and Microsoft stakeholders; communicate plans and trade-offs, and mentor product managers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping developer-facing platforms, APIs, or SDKs, including API design, versioning, and deprecation.
- Experience with search, information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, or LLM-based agent platforms.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, Work IQ, Retrieval API, distributed systems
AI focus
Builds retrieval and grounding platform capabilities for Copilot and agents, including recall-forward retrieval and evidence quality.
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