Principal Product Manager - WebIQ, AI Economy
About The Position
The AI Economy Team at Microsoft is building infrastructure that enables AI to discover, understand, and interact with information, including through WebIQ, which connects AI systems with fresh and relevant information beyond what is contained in their models. The Principal Product Manager will help define and drive the next phase of this work by connecting opportunities across organizational and technical boundaries and translating them into products that deliver customer value. This role works across a highly cross-functional environment with product, engineering, business, and partner leaders. The product manager will identify opportunities, shape product direction, establish platform-level requirements, and help bring complex capabilities to market. Work may involve leading directly in some areas and influencing, connecting, and enabling others in different areas. The role calls for a product leader comfortable with ambiguity who can move between strategy and execution, applying product judgment, technical depth, business acumen, and influence across organizational boundaries. AI Experiences employees living within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft Hub in the U.S. are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
- Experience defining platform-level product requirements for technical products, platforms, cloud services, developer products, search, data, or related technologies.
- Experience shipping complex products or capabilities across multiple teams, ownership boundaries, or interconnected systems.
- Experience taking products or capabilities from early strategy and definition through launch, adoption, and ongoing development.
- Experience working with technical and domain-specialist teams to translate customer and business needs into scalable platform capabilities.
- Understanding of AI platforms, search, cloud infrastructure, data products, APIs, developer ecosystems, or platform business models.
- Ability to learn and apply emerging AI concepts, independently explore new capabilities, and form product judgment in a rapidly changing technical environment.
- Strong product judgment and ability to balance customer experience, technical considerations, business priorities, and execution.
- Proven ability to create clarity, align stakeholders, and deliver results in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the product strategy and playbook for bringing specialized vertical capabilities into WebIQ.
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to expand WebIQ into new domains, working with teams that bring specialized expertise, technology, data, and customer understanding.
- Partner with domain teams from early ideation and strategy through product definition, requirements, integration, launch, adoption, and ongoing evolution.
- Define platform-level product and technical requirements that enable specialized capabilities to integrate into WebIQ and deliver a cohesive customer experience.
- Develop scalable approaches and operating mechanisms for incorporating new verticals efficiently while accounting for individual domain requirements and maturity.
- Translate customer needs, partner feedback, market signals, and emerging AI use cases into product priorities and investment recommendations.
- Work across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, and partner organizations to drive alignment and execution.
- Help shape business and go-to-market considerations for new vertical capabilities, including customer segmentation, adoption, packaging, and measurement.
- Establish success metrics and feedback loops to understand customer adoption, product quality, ecosystem health, and business impact.
- Drive clarity on ownership, dependencies, and decisions across multiple organizations contributing to a common customer experience.
- Communicate strategy, progress, opportunities, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders across Microsoft.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
