Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

7h • $165,600 - $331,200

About The Position

Microsoft is seeking a Principal Product Manager to set the technical and product direction for the Copilot Offline Evaluation Platform, a critical component of the broader Copilot Evaluation ecosystem. The platform assesses the quality and reliability of Copilot experiences before production by enabling controlled evaluations with synthetic or curated datasets across non-production tenants. These evaluations simulate real-world scenarios to validate feature performance, detect regressions, and establish quality baselines.

The role owns the platform’s end-to-end technical and product strategy, including dataset generation and curation, realistic test environments, evaluations at scale, and turning results into ship decisions. It is an individual-contributor leadership role, leading through clear thinking, technical and product depth, and hands-on work within the systems. The Principal Product Manager also serves as a role model and mentor for product managers and engineers.

The position is part of Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more. Microsoft describes a culture grounded in growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in product, service, or 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 thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, including design, product-market fit, and launch.
• 8+ years of experience improving product metrics, such as growing a customer base, expanding customer usage, or avoiding customer churn.
• 8+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience.
• Experience leading product design and technical strategy for software or service products.
• Experience shipping large-scale enterprise software or cloud services, including platform architecture used by many internal or external teams.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML evaluation, including metric design, model-based judging, dataset curation and synthetic data, offline and online experimentation, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience with test and data infrastructure at scale, such as test environments, data pipelines, telemetry, and results analytics.
• Ability to lead through influence across organizational boundaries, build trusted relationships with partner teams, and clarify shared goals and dependencies.
• Ability to innovate at the platform level and carry integrated, end-to-end solutions through to shipping.
• Strong problem-solving skills and drive for results; self-starter who identifies problems early, proposes solutions, and mobilizes the right teams.
• Experience mentoring product managers and engineers and developing technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategic roadmap for platform initiatives and align it with overall business and product goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize platform features and enhancements.
• Define project scopes, goals, and deliverables, and communicate them effectively to team members and stakeholders.
• Drive execution of multiple complex projects simultaneously while ensuring quality standards and timelines are met.
• Work with engineering, data science, and product teams to define technical requirements and align platform capabilities with business needs.
• Serve as a point of contact for internal stakeholders, address concerns, provide updates, and manage expectations.
• Demonstrate deep technical knowledge of the platform, algorithms, and infrastructure needed for the product.
• Mentor product managers and engineers and lead through influence.

What This Job Offers

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