Principal Product Manager

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You’ll drive innovation in AI integration, extensibility, and developer experiences, working closely with engineering, design, applied science, and partner teams to build a unified, intelligent, and extensible search platform.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience influencing technical architecture and aligning cross-functional teams on complex systems.
• Proven success designing developer-facing APIs and extensibility models.
• Deep experience in cross-functional environments and influencing outcomes across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate vision into execution.
• Executive communication skills: connect product investments to customer needs and business outcomes.
• Passion for building not just great products, but also great team culture—collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with semantic search, vector databases, or large language models.
• Experience working with AI/ML-powered experiences, platform services, or large-scale subscription businesses.
• Exceptional skills in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, design, marketing, research, and business disciplines.
• Ability to balance big-picture vision with day-to-day execution.

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• Define and drive the vision for seamless, intelligent search experiences across native and third-party surfaces.
• Evaluate and integrate cutting-edge AI models (semantic, lexical, hybrid) to power search and discovery scenarios.
• Design extensible platform APIs for 1P and 3P developers to build custom search experiences.
• Partner with Shell, Copilot, and app teams to deliver cohesive and performant search experiences.
• Influence technical architecture and long-term platform strategy in collaboration with engineering and applied science.
• Drive strategic partnerships to align on shared goals, unlock new scenarios, and amplify impact.
• Define success metrics, track SLT-level KPIs, and lead initiatives that deliver measurable growth and customer impact.
• Champion Product-Led Growth (PLG) practices: hypothesis-driven development, experimentation frameworks, and data-informed decision-making.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to frame hypotheses, drive experiments, and iterate at speed.
• Represent the voice of the customer and developer to ensure the platform is intuitive, powerful, and future-ready.