Principal Product Manager - Observability & Evaluations

Microsoft•New York, NY

About The Position

Microsoft Foundry is the platform that empowers developers to build, deploy, and scale AIpowered applications and agents across Microsoft’s ecosystem. As part of the CoreAI organization, Foundry brings together Azure AI, orchestration patterns, agent tooling, data connectivity, and the emerging stack that transforms how applications are created. As a Principal Product Manager on the Foundry team, you will shape the strategy and roadmap for foundational developer and AI capabilities that serve millions of developers globally. You will partner closely with engineering, design, and research to define experiences that help teams modernize legacy applications, build agentic workflows, and leverage state-of-the-art LLMs and SLMs. This role requires deep technical curiosity, strong customer empathy, and the ability to drive clarity and alignment across complex engineering environments. You will contribute to Microsoft’s mission to empower every developer and organization to do more with AI.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years of product management, program management, or software development experience, OR equivalent experience.
Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check requirements.

Nice To Haves

Proven experience leading technical product areas from concept through launch.
Experience building developer platforms, cloud services, AI orchestration frameworks, or agentcentric architectures.
Demonstrated ability to partner across engineering, design, research, and business teams.
Ability to analyze complex technical and business requirements and drive alignment across stakeholders.
Background working with enterprise customers on technical adoption or migration efforts.
Experience driving product strategy in global or complex markets.
Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex technical concepts for executive audiences.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the longterm vision for the Foundry platform, including agent frameworks, orchestration capabilities, and developer tooling used across CoreAI products.
Translate complex enterprise and developer requirements into clear product roadmaps and prioritized investment plans.
Identify market opportunities and validate product direction through research, experimentation, and customer insights.
Engage directly with strategic AI customers to deeply understand their application modernizations, agent use cases, and infrastructure requirements.
Synthesize customer feedback into actionable insights that inform backlog prioritization and ongoing product improvements.
Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure platform features.
Lead execution of multiquarter initiatives, ensuring clarity on acceptance criteria, technical dependencies, and timelines.
Partner with design, research, marketing, and PM peers across Azure AI, GitHub, and broader CoreAI to craft worldclass developer experiences.
Drive capabilities for agenttoagent interactions, skill orchestration, prompt management, AI workflow tooling, and hybrid cloud/local inference patterns.
Influence the platform infrastructure underpinning Foundry, ensuring that developer scenarios—from app migration to AIfirst application creation—are firstclass and intuitive.
Measure product performance, collect feedback, and iterate quickly to optimize reliability, usability, and developer satisfaction.
Maintain clear, executiveready insights on product performance and strategic direction.