Microsoft
Senior Product Manager
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 5+ years; alternatively, equivalent experience. Preferred: 8+ years with a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience; other preferred experience includes 2+ years taking a product to market and 4+ years improving product metrics and disrupting a market.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
About the job
Owns a Substrate Transport product area, setting its strategy and roadmap and leading delivery of measurable improvements to Microsoft 365 mail flow.
What you'll do
- Define product strategy, roadmap, specifications, hypotheses, and success measures for a transport pipeline area.
- Lead execution through scoping, safe rollout, telemetry, operational readiness, and security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility requirements.
- Own service or business metrics, use service data to guide decisions, and align cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree and 5+ 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.
- Direct experience with email or messaging infrastructure (e.g., SMTP, routing and delivery, deliverability, or anti-spam and anti-abuse systems).
- Working fluency with distributed systems and demonstrated use of telemetry and large-scale data to frame problems and prove impact.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience; alternatively, five or more years in product management or equivalent engineering, systems, or technical program management experience with direct product-area ownership.
- Familiarity with Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, or comparable communications services; comfort querying telemetry with Kusto Query Language.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base pay); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base pay) in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.
Tools
Substrate Transport, Microsoft 365, SMTP, Exchange Online, Kusto Query Language
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