Principal Product Manager

Microsoft
Microsoft

Product

Redmond, WA, USA

USD 165,600-296,400 / year

Posted on Jun 30, 2026
Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
We are currently looking for Principal Product Manager who can help accomplish the goals and initiative of the Microsoft Security organization.
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
  • Lead end-to-end product strategy across complex, cross-organizational scenarios, translating customer and market insights into scalable, AI-powered solutions.
  • Partner across engineering, design, research, marketing, and leadership to define vision, align priorities, and deliver high-impact products that meet customer and business goals.
  • Use data, AI, and experimentation (e.g., A/B testing, telemetry, customer feedback) to identify opportunities, validate hypotheses, and continuously improve product outcomes.
  • Define success through clear metrics (e.g., OKRs, KPIs, adoption, engagement, and performance) and use insights to guide roadmap decisions and long-term investments.
  • Drive product development from concept to launch, managing tradeoffs, dependencies, and execution across multiple feature areas while ensuring quality, security, and responsible AI practices.
  • Engage directly with customers, partners, and stakeholders to understand needs, gather feedback, and ensure solutions deliver meaningful value and strong product-market fit.
  • Influence and align senior leaders and cross-functional teams, resolving complex challenges and building clarity across a broad portfolio of work.
  • Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued and teams can do their best work.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
  • 8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
  • 8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).


Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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.



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