Principal Product Manager
Microsoft
Product
Redmond, WA, USA
USD 142,800-274,800 / year
We’re transforming how Windows engages and supports customers to accelerate adoption, innovation, and quality through data and AI. If you want to help shape this transformation, this is the role for you.
As Principal Product Manager for Windows Supportability Intelligence, you’ll lead the effort to establish supportability insights and AI capabilities that drive measurable improvements in product quality through the identification of support cases patterns, customer insights, and AI-powered analysis.
In this role, you will define how Windows measures and improves supportability at scale. You will build platforms that surface escalation patterns, identify recurring product gaps, and drive engineering accountability through data-driven insights and AI-powered analysis. Your work will directly improve customer satisfaction by ensuring issues are detected, diagnosed, and resolved faster.
This is a career-defining opportunity to transform Supportability as a fundamental part of the Windows product development cycle, with executive-level visibility and direct customer impact.
Your Impact: At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In this role, you’ll embody that mission, driving innovation, building trust, and creating outcomes that matter. Join us and make your mark on the future of Windows.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Principal Product Manager, within the Windows and Devices organization; responsible to drive the strategy, design, development, and operation of Windows Supportability Intelligence dashboards, data pipelines, and AI agents that identify Windows components that generate escalations, surface actionable recommendations, and alert engineering leadership. You’re expected to:
Deliver product insights on emerging errors and customer support patterns, with anomaly detection for proactive engagement before issues become widespread.
Leverage AI, product telemetry, and agentic analysis of frontline case patterns to automatically detect supportability gaps, recurring product bugs, and inefficiencies in escalation processes that are invisible through conventional reports.
Partner directly with Windows component owners, Data Science teams, and Customer Support to define metrics that measure Windows ability to detect, diagnose, and repair malfunctions with minimal friction to users and support engineers.
Establish and drive a Supportability governance framework ensuring new Windows features ship with required diagnostics, clear troubleshooting paths, and readiness for rapid incident response.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualification:
- Proven experience driving the creation of complex software solutions at scale across organizational boundaries, aligning engineering, and partner teams to deliver measurable outcomes.
- Proven experience building or owning data platforms, analytics systems, product health dashboards, or quality metrics at enterprise scale.
- Demonstrated expertise with AI/ML technologies including LLMs, anomaly detection, or intelligent automation applied to operational or product data.
- Experience with Windows telemetry, diagnostics, or servicing systems.
- Familiarity with support ecosystems including escalation workflows, incident management platforms, and CRM systems.
- Experience defining and driving cross-organizational governance frameworks or quality gates in large engineering organizations.
- Proficiency with data analysis tools and languages to query, visualize, and derive insights from large-scale operational data.
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Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.