Principal Product Manager

• • Design critical insights for Partners: Deliver next-generation insights on incentives, credits, and new cloud offers through AI-driven, real-time experiences. 

  • Reimagine commercial Partner Experience: Redefine engagement across lifecycle events—from onboarding to renewal—with personalized, data-driven solutions. 

  • Build AI-Assisted products & experiences: Lead design and innovation leveraging AI to simplify workflows, unlock new value, and experiment to enhance personal, team, and product impact.  

  • Build AI-Assisted products & experiences: Lead design and delivery of innovative products leveraging AI to simplify workflows and unlock new value. experiment with AI to enhance personal, team, and product impact.  

  • Maximize opportunities for Partners & Microsoft: Advocate for partner needs while aligning with Microsoft’s strategic priorities for measurable impact. 

  • Collaborate and influence a diverse set of stakeholder groups: Drive alignment across Engineering, Marketing, Business Planning, Support, and Sales using data-driven storytelling. 

  • Evangelize the product and platform offerings to partners/customers and contribute to various marketing initiatives like blogs, documentation, videos, testimonials, representing in codesign sessions, technical summits, workshops and events. 

  • Drive design of experiences, products and platform capabilities: validate problem hypothesis for various areas of investment; validate the solution designs with customers/partners; and drive a live and active cohorts of customers and partners. 

  mers/partners; drive a live and active cohort of customers and partners. 

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ 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).
• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Deep knowledge of data models, workflows, and agentic capabilities.
• Prior full stack experience - experience owning/driving a product that has both front-end and back-end elements.
• Deep understanding of partner ecosystems and cloud commerce monetization strategies.
• Expertise in applying AI technologies to product experiences.
• Customer-facing experience. Demonstrated ability to engage with enterprise customers or partners – for example, gathering requirements, delivering presentations or workshops, or driving pilot programs. A passion for helping customers succeed with new technologies is highly valued.
• Innovation mindset and continuous learning. Genuine enthusiasm for staying current with the latest advancements in AI/ML (e.g. generative AI, LLMs, etc.) and ability to apply new ideas to product strategy.  

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 - $304,200 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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