Microsoft
Principal Product Manager
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years required; 12+ years preferred. Preferred qualifications also include 4+ years taking a product, feature, or experience to market; 6+ years improving product metrics; and 6+ years disrupting a market.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines the architecture and multi-year strategy for personalized data platforms that help Microsoft 365 Copilot and related products use per-user content and context.
What you'll do
- Set platform architecture, requirements, contracts, and measurable product outcomes across personalized impact, context, and content.
- Lead design of evaluation, diagnostics, indexing, retrieval, access control, and extensibility across Copilot, search, connectors, and agentic experiences.
- Align engineering and partner teams on technical tradeoffs; mentor product managers and communicate decisions to senior stakeholders.
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 upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading technically complex platform products and expertise in areas such as distributed systems, search and indexing, retrieval and ranking, data platforms, or AI/ML product architecture.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Microsoft 365, Copilot, Windows Search, search, connectors, agentic orchestrators, AI/ML
AI focus
Builds personalized data and context capabilities for Copilot and agentic experiences; preferred qualifications include AI/ML product architecture and responsible AI.
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