Principal Product Manager- Agent Tools and Lifecycle

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

15h•$165,600 - $296,400

About The Position

The Principal Product Manager for Agent Tools and Lifecycle will own the multi-year strategy and cross-organizational execution for information-worker and maker authoring tools and lifecycle management for agents used by Autopilots and Workflows. The role works across Microsoft 365 Copilot and partner organizations to create a unified experience for authoring, publishing, evaluation, observability, governance, and operations. The product area aims to help information workers, makers, developers, partners, and administrators move from an idea to a trusted production solution without fragmented tools or rework. The role uses AI and customer and market signals to identify opportunities, translate ambiguous needs into durable product and platform direction, guide roadmap and investment priorities, and align executives and cross-functional teams on measurable outcomes. It offers the opportunity to shape an AI-first platform area for millions of customers and lead complex product transitions through influence at organizational scale.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, such as through design, addressing product-market fit, and launch, including internal tools or frameworks.
8+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market, such as growing the customer base, expanding customer usage, or avoiding customer churn.
8+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience, such as through competitive disruption or replacing an established competing product.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree and 15+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
Experience in agentic AI and AI prototyping; workflow automation; low-code/no-code and developer authoring; product lifecycle and specifications; evaluation, experimentation, observability, governance, identity, security, and enterprise platform operations.
Executive storytelling, negotiation, product evangelism, and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

Define and evangelize the long-term vision, strategy, investment framework, and roadmap for agent, autopilot, and workflow authoring and lifecycle experiences across divisional boundaries.
Synthesize customer research, telemetry, market intelligence, competitive analysis, and AI-assisted insights to identify unmet needs, validate product-market fit, prioritize opportunities, and guide resource tradeoffs.
Create a coherent progression across information-worker, maker, and developer entry points so solutions can move from lightweight creation to trusted, governed, enterprise-scale deployment without fragmentation or rework.
Drive shared lifecycle capabilities across Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agent Builder, Power Automate, and partner surfaces, including specification, validation, publishing, distribution, evaluation, observability, versioning, governance, operations, and supportability.
Partner with teams across Microsoft to define platform contracts, integration patterns, ownership boundaries, dependencies, release criteria, and shared success measures.
Lead difficult product and architecture decisions with senior stakeholders, balancing customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, quality, security, privacy, responsible AI, compliance, reliability, cost, and time to market.
Define OKRs, AI quality measures, experimentation and learning loops; use evidence to improve adoption, engagement, retention, reliability, and business outcomes, and change course or deprecate capabilities when warranted.