Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

1h

About The Position

Microsoft 365 is the de facto standard for enterprise cloud SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution and the Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive services are its foundational elements. In this AI and Copilot era, organizations are digitally transforming every aspects of their business with Microsoft 365 which infuses intelligence and brings maximum productivity gain. Microsoft Teams and SharePoint/OneDrive services have recently reached over 300 million monthly active users (MAU). We are continuing to see exponential growth in our services and are expanding our team. We are the OneDrive/SharePoint Security and Copilot for Admins product team, part of Microsoft 365 cloud services teams in Experiences + Devices (E+D) division. Our team’s mission is to empower customers with simple, secure, and compliant management solutions that help administer their ever-increasing digital estate. Our product portfolio targets small/medium/enterprise businesses, consumers, and schools. We are a unique team in a way as we are privileged to work on complex technical platform issues while at the same time having direct customer connections and bringing impact to Microsoft’s bottom-line revenue. We are expanding to new AI-powered product offerings, such as SharePoint Advanced Management for IT Pros with AI-first controls for preventing over-permissioning and managing lifecycle of content. Our team plays a crucial role in the Microsoft 365 Copilot journey, driving innovation and advancing productivity. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager who will be responsible for strategizing and expanding our AI initiatives across content security product portfolio and championing integrations across our Microsoft 365 suite. The keys to success will encompass creating a strategy for cross-product integrations across our product offerings in the lens of agentic capabilities and accelerating customer adoption and partnership integrations. We are looking for you to bringing fresh perspective and your unique voice to our team! We are a modern PM organization running product management for one of the largest businesses and consumer services on the planet and the second biggest service in Microsoft 365. The team runs lean with a span of control among managers and more PMs than company average, ensuring impact from the PM team and a focus on product and customers. We are data informed, hypothesis driven, and measure our outcomes to validate customer impact. We empower our industry leading design and user research teams to own the user and administrator experience of our product. We take a direct role in framing our business value directly to our customers and vibrant community of fans. Part of building a successful team is having an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. To this end, we’ve created a Culture Club to provide organizational support to grassroots initiatives that focus on various aspects of our culture. We’ve created local mentoring rings and communities where we can learn from each other and grow. We focus on having inclusive meetings that foster useful dialog. Transparency is also core to our culture. We like to have fun, celebrate our wins, and learn from our mistakes. Learn more about our team and culture at https://aka.ms/getsmart. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of demonstrated ability in interpersonal and communication skills, product insight, user empathy, cross-functional collaboration, system-level thinking, and portfolio management.
• 8+ years experience launching multiple iterations of products to customers.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Self-starter with solid communication skills (written & oral), a background of influencing others, and bias towards action.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams, disciplines, and across levels of management.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in a healthy team culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and collaboration.
• Demonstrated interest and empathy for understanding customer scenarios and experiences.
• Demonstrated product strategy and visionary.

Responsibilities

• You will have the ability to forge solid cross-organization partnerships to achieve common aspirations, aptitude to enable progress through data-driven methodology, and a drive to make our customers and our business successful.
• You will lead the product strategy for elevating Copilot governance with SharePoint’s cutting-edge security policies like ransomware protection and many other security platform solutions.
• You will work closely with other compliance leaders and major offerings like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Teams Premium, Copilot for Sales, etc., This is a collaborative role with emphasis on partnership across organization boundaries and across PM, Engineering, Design, Research, Data Science, and Marketing disciplines to deliver impact together.
• You will be the voice of the engineering team in customer conversations and will have opportunities to work directly with enterprise customers and bring impact to Microsoft 365’s core business.
• Embody our culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees