Principal Product Manager

Join the team building the engineering backbone behind Microsoft’s AI-first transformation! Come be at the center of Microsoft 365 and help shape the future of Engineering Systems at Microsoft!

The “Engineering Systems 365” (ES365) team works on developer productivity and satisfaction to ensure that code changes move quickly and efficiently from inception to release with provable high quality, at scale, across multiple endpoints, platforms, and device form factors – all while managing costs responsibly.

As AI development evolves, the complexity of our engineering systems continues to grow as Microsoft's AI products rely on numerous shared packages, cross-repository integrations, and rapidly evolving frameworks—all while maintaining high standards for reliability, security, and compliance.

In this role, you will be at the heart of this transformation by:

• Leading ES365’s Cohort efforts in focusing on the developer experience across a set of targeted engineers
• Modernizing and evolving our engineering portfolio by working by collaborating with other engineering teams at Microsoft
• Scaling development of web and AI tech experiences through reliability and performance of key engineering systems

This is a high visibility role with focus on big transformations and large gains. You’ll have engineering leaders from across the company invested in your success as many of the new AI features rolling out as part of M365 Copilot is heavily dependent on the services and components that ship out of the codebases we support, like 1JS – a web first repository and OMR – the Office MonoRepo. You will build connections with other engineering systems teams across Microsoft, and together you will work to identify, define, and adopt best practices from within the company and the industry.

Our work is a true force multiplier, where small efficiencies translate to months of developer time saved, and large efficiencies have transformational impact on Microsoft’s bottom line. We’ll enable our customers to create and ship products which are performant, reliable, accessible, secure, and trustworthy; products which empower every person and organization to achieve more.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across teams, disciplines, and organizations to improve engineering agility, enabling engineers to measure and release their changes rapidly with high quality.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with internal engineers, building deep empathy and understanding of how they get their work done.
• Innovate on engineering tooling for creative technical solutions to address customer needs.
• Leverage partnerships to drive the vision and improvement of tools and process at a strategic level.
• Be a reference for Engineering best practices, technologies and techniques across the industry and cross-group within Microsoft.
• Drive requirements to Microsoft’s One Engineering System vision.
• Forge, promote, and demonstrate habits supporting our inclusive team culture.
• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• 8+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 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 Qualifications:

• Knowledge of engineering scenarios, tools, builds, SCM, and validation.
• Proven technical skills and independence.
• Experience establishing high productivity and collaboration across multiple partners in different time zones.
• Ability to use data to influence and drive decisions.
• Experience defining, measuring, innovating, and driving change in large software products and systems from incubation through deployment.
• Proven track record in developing and shipping software or services, especially shared platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication used to convey business problems, alternatives, and product strategies.
• Excellent cross-discipline leadership and collaboration skills.
• Ability to influence and drive change without authority.

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 6, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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