Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $142,800 - $304,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

Microsoft Edge serves hundreds of millions of users who expect a browser that is fast, reliable, accessible, and trustworthy. The Edge Fundamentals PM team owns the horizontal, cross-cutting work that keeps the core browser healthy: quality and reliability, performance and efficiency, feature-health monitoring, and the user-experience improvements that drive long-term retention. We are hiring a Principal PM Manager to lead this team. You will set strategy and mission plans across planning cycles, define clear ownership and success metrics, coach a team of product managers, and partner deeply with engineering, design, and partner teams across Edge, Windows, and MAI to ensure the platform stays high-quality and performant at scale. 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. Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location 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 experience in product/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) people management experience.
• 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.
• 8+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years managing and growing PM teams.
• Demonstrated success owning horizontal or platform-level workstreams (quality, performance, reliability, or growth/retention) for a large-scale consumer product.
• Solid data fluency — comfortable defining metrics, reading telemetry, and using experimentation to drive decisions.
• Track record of setting strategy and converting it into executed, measurable outcomes across multiple planning cycles.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication; able to influence engineering and partner teams without direct authority.
• Experience with browsers, OS platforms, or other client/runtime software at consumer scale.
• Familiarity with browser-quality domains: performance/memory efficiency, accessibility compliance, privacy tradeoffs, and globalization.
• Experience standing up or operating feature-health / reliability monitoring systems and pre-merge quality gates.

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-cycle strategy and mission plans for Edge Fundamentals, translating broad quality and platform-health goals into prioritized, measurable roadmaps.
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of PMs; review execution quality, define DRIs, and ensure every workstream has clear scope, success metrics, and resourcing.
• Own the browser quality, reliability, and service-maturity agenda — telemetry-driven quality loops, regression detection, pre-merge quality gates, backlog and AI-driven debt reduction, and test-coverage improvements.
• Drive performance and efficiency initiatives (e.g., memory/efficiency features such as Sleeping Tabs, performance instrumentation and analysis), prioritizing correctly across the org and defining clear success criteria.
• Guide the feature-health monitoring system — scope, success metrics, and resourcing — so regressions are caught and reliability improves before customers are impacted.
• Act as the DRI-level owner for retention, aligning performance, reliability, and UX quality with customer-satisfaction and retention goals.
• Steward accessibility, advise on privacy product-vs-risk tradeoffs, and coordinate globalization and Windows-integration asks with engineering.
• Partner with Edge engineering, Edge India, MAI, Windows, design, and data-science teams; represent Fundamentals in org-wide planning and reviews.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

What This Job Offers

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