Microsoft
Principal Product Manager
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA +2 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
New York, NY
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 8+ years in product/service/program management or software development; equivalent experience accepted.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads strategy, development, evaluation, and launch of AI-powered Copilot Chat experiences, beginning with long-running research tasks and source-cited reports.
What you'll do
- Own product strategy, roadmap, execution, and measurable outcomes for Copilot Chat initiatives.
- Define and ship end-to-end AI experiences; lead product quality, evaluation, and decisions with engineering and applied science.
- Align cross-company teams and lead the Innovation team's planning, priorities, ownership, and review cadence.
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
- Experience delivering complex products or AI-powered features, especially zero-to-one or agentic, long-running, multistep experiences.
- Experience with AI product evaluation, enterprise AI requirements, or Microsoft 365, Copilot, or enterprise productivity products.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base pay); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base pay)
Tools
Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365, Work IQ, AI/ML, RAG/grounding
AI focus
Build and evaluate AI research experiences that plan and execute long-running tasks, retrieve and synthesize sources into cited reports, and support user-controlled actions; address quality, safety, privacy, and enterprise compliance.
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