Member of Technical Staff

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d

About The Position

We are seeking a Product Manager with hands-on experience in building and shipping products within fast-paced environments, particularly those involving AI developer tools. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of AI and a "builder" mindset, actively using AI tools to prototype and shape product development. This role is part of the ES365 (Microsoft 365 Engineering Systems) team, focusing on the Agentic Engineering platform adopted across Microsoft. This platform supports thousands of developers working on large codebases, covering areas from source control to deployment automation. The team builds the agentic platform, its orchestration layer, developer-facing tools, a plugin marketplace, and enterprise governance. The role involves defining product vision and strategy, owning key metrics, and collaborating closely with senior engineers and technical leaders. Example workstreams include AI-assisted code refactoring, automated package integrations, codebase Q&A, and enterprise governance for AI tooling. This is an opportunity to shape core product decisions and impact tens of thousands of users quickly, defining the future of AI-powered developer efficiency at Microsoft.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management, program management, or software development, OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager shipping developer tools, platforms, or infrastructure products end-to-end.
• A builder mindset. You use AI tools to prototype workflows, validate product ideas, or directly shape what got built, not just to draft documents faster.
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered developer tooling and coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Copilot Workspace, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, or similar.
• A clear point of view on what great looks like and a strong conviction on how AI is transforming the software development experience, gained through hands-on work.
• Turns ambiguous, fast-changing problem spaces into clear strategy, crisp requirements, and product roadmaps.
• Track record of driving product adoption at scale. You know how to move from early adopters to broad rollout and can point to the metrics that prove it.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration skills. You work effectively across engineering, design, data science, and leadership stakeholders.
• Comfort leading in ambiguous, fast-moving problem spaces where best practices are still being established.
• Prior experience defining product strategy for agent or plugin ecosystems, marketplaces, or extensibility platforms.
• Experience with governance, security, or compliance considerations for platforms or marketplaces, especially in an enterprise or regulated context.
• Expertise in agentic AI development patterns like multi-step reasoning, tool/function calling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Background in developer productivity metrics and instrumentation: PR velocity, lead time, developer experience measurement, or similar.
• Prior experience with enterprise-scale rollouts, including phased adoption, feedback triage, community engagement, and operational readiness at 10,000+ user scale.
• Background in developer tooling, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or engineering systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, vision, and roadmap for a defined area of Microsoft's agentic platform, and drive it end-to-end from discovery through launch, adoption, and iteration.
• Use AI tools in your daily work, prototype product concepts yourself, and stay current on the fast-moving landscape of AI developer tools and agentic systems. Bring that depth to every product decision.
• Demonstrate resiliency to experiment and try multiple AI-driven product approaches that may not work, because no one has tried them before.
• Define how developers discover, adopt, and get value from the platform and its ecosystem of agents and plugins, whether that means onboarding, governance, developer experience, or scaling adoption across new engineering orgs.
• Lead with judgment, verify with data. Have a point of view on what to build, then use metrics like adoption, engagement, and productivity impact to validate it.
• Make the case to leadership with evidence and a clear view of what is or isn't working.
• Work closely with engineering managers, principal engineers, and technical leads to scope work, make trade-offs, and make sure the team is building the right things.
• Drive cross-team roadmap alignment and decision-making with partner teams across Microsoft working on AI, developer tooling, and engineering systems, including GitHub, DevDiv, and internal platform teams.
• Stay close to your customers. Run feedback loops with developers, pull insights from telemetry and direct conversations, and make sure the product keeps up with real needs.
• Help create a team environment with high trust, direct feedback, and room for people to do their best work.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior