Principal Product Manager, Azure PaaS & Serverless - CoreAI
About The Position
Microsoft is seeking a Principal Product Manager to help define and deliver the next generation of Azure PaaS and Serverless. The role involves identifying customer problems, understanding developer and enterprise application scenarios, and translating insights into product strategy, requirements, and measurable outcomes. The Product Manager will work across customers, engineering, design, marketing, sales, support, and partner teams, using customer engagement, telemetry, market research, and experimentation to guide product opportunities and priorities. The role focuses on developing capabilities and end-to-end experiences that help developers and organizations build, deploy, integrate, and manage modern and AI-powered applications on Azure. It combines technical product development, customer engagement, business strategy, and cross-functional execution, with responsibility spanning discovery, delivery, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years.
Nice To Haves
- 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or equivalent experience.
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Industry experience building and growing cloud infrastructure or platform services.
- Hands-on experience as a developer, product manager, program manager, or architect for cloud-based applications.
- Analytical skills to set future direction and product plans based on data.
- Ability to dig deeply into technical challenges.
- Proven track record defining a technical vision and leading it to demonstrable business results.
- Strong teamwork, personal integrity, responsibility, and accountability.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong customer advocacy, self-starting ability, and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of Azure infrastructure and platform services.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of agent builders, developers, platform engineering teams, IT professionals, and enterprise customers through engagement, research, telemetry, and collaboration with field and support teams.
- Identify unmet customer needs and opportunities in modern application development, cloud-native computing, serverless technologies, integration, APIs, automation, and AI-enabled application patterns.
- Translate customer, business, and market insights into product requirements, scenarios, priorities, and success measures.
- Own and evolve the roadmap for a product area or end-to-end customer scenario, balancing customer value, engineering investment, platform strategy, and business impact.
- Partner with engineering and design throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery and solution definition through implementation, preview, launch, and iteration.
- Frame decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, build alignment, and turn ambiguous opportunities into executable plans.
- Use qualitative feedback, product telemetry, experimentation, and business metrics to evaluate product performance and guide investment decisions.
- Work across Azure and Microsoft to create cohesive experiences involving cloud services, developer tools, GitHub, security, observability, data, and AI.
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, partner, support, and developer-relations teams on product positioning, competitive differentiation, go-to-market plans, and adoption strategies.
- Monitor industry trends, competing platforms, open-source technologies, and changing developer practices to inform product strategy.
- Help ensure capabilities meet customer expectations for security, reliability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost efficiency.
- Communicate product strategy, roadmap, progress, risks, and results to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
- Support product adoption through documentation, samples, demonstrations, presentations, customer engagements, and community events.
- Model Microsoft’s culture and values through customer focus, growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, accountability, and commitment to measurable outcomes.
Benefits
- The posting notes that certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation but does not specify particular benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
