Principal Product Manager - Microsoft Foundry (CoreAI Efficiency)

Microsoft • Boston, MA

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About The Position

We are building the industry’s leading AI-first application stack with enhanced reliability, performance, and scale. Microsoft Foundry is redefining model-forward development with new UI/UX patterns, runtimes to build agents, orchestrating across multiple agents, and a reimagined management and observability layer.
We are a small, friendly, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI agent era. We run lean, obsess about customers, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.

Join the Microsoft Foundry team as we redefine the build, deploy, operate loop for generative AI development and accelerate the next wave of innovation. We are building the industry’s leading model serving platform, empowering customer applications and agents with unmatched reliability, efficiency, performance, and flexibility.
We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to supercharge our experimentation velocity and reduce the time from idea to efficiency gains in our generative AI infrastructure. In this role, you will own the strategy and execution of high-velocity experimentation initiatives that enable faster iteration and validation of improvements. You will partner closely with engineering and data science teams to build and scale the tooling, processes, and culture needed to make experimentation seamless, statistically robust, and impactful. Your work will help transform how we quickly test ideas, gather insights, and drive continuous optimizations to keep our AI platform at the cutting edge.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years of experience in product development. Including delivering one or more AI, cloud services, enterprise grade solutions, and mobile apps.
• Proven success in launching and scaling multi-million dollar revenue products, ideally in AI, ML, or platform domains.
• Technical fluency in model performance evaluation, usability, and integration strategies.
• Product led growth focus with data-driven decision-making skills.
• Executive presence and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex dependencies.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with a bias for action.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and execution for increasing experimentation velocity, reducing time-to-insight, and accelerating time-to-realize efficiency.
• Reduce friction in the end-to-end experimentation process from hypothesis generation and experiment design to deployment and analysis.
• Define and track efficiency metrics, manage dependencies, and lead experimentation to drive Microsoft Foundry product growth and demonstrate efficiency gains
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, and partner teams to develop and enhance our experimentation platform and tools.
• Drive alignment across teams to support experimentation initiatives, and ensure that insights from experiments translate into tangible improvements in our generative AI platform.
• Foster an organization-wide culture of experimentation and evidence-based innovation.
• Promote agility and learning, empowering teams to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve our AI systems at a faster pace.
• Develop compelling product narratives and performance dashboards for executive-level communication and decision-making.
• Provide clarity in ambiguous environments, influence stakeholders, and foster a culture of innovation and accountability.

What This Job Offers

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