Principal Product Manager, Azure PaaS & Serverless - CoreAI

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

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 focuses on identifying customer problems, understanding developer and enterprise application scenarios, and translating customer, market, and business insights into product strategy, requirements, and measurable outcomes. The product manager works across customers, engineering, design, marketing, sales, support, and partner teams, using customer engagement, telemetry, research, and experimentation to identify opportunities and guide priorities. The role drives 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, taking products from discovery through delivery, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. The team aims to make Azure the best application platform for every developer and organization. Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience. Microsoft Cloud Background Check screening is required upon hire or transfer and every two years. The posted U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800–$274,800 per year, with a range of USD $188,000–$304,200 per year for specified locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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 deep into technical challenges.
Track record of 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-starter mindset, and problem-solving skills.
Knowledge of Azure infrastructure and platform services.

Responsibilities

Develop understanding of agent builders, developers, platform engineering teams, IT professionals, and enterprise customers through engagement, research, telemetry, and partnerships 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 discovery, solution definition, implementation, preview, launch, and iteration.
Frame decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, build alignment, and turn ambiguous opportunities into executable plans.
Use customer feedback, product telemetry, experimentation, and business metrics to evaluate performance and guide investment decisions.
Work across Azure and Microsoft to create cohesive experiences spanning 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 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 obsession, growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, accountability, and a commitment to measurable outcomes.