Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • ,

3d • $142,800 - $304,200

About The Position

The Principal Product Manager in Microsoft’s Azure Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure Products organization drives end-to-end capacity delivery across the AI infrastructure portfolio, including strategic NeoCloud partnerships and large-scale GPU deployments. The role spans cloud infrastructure, engineering execution, product strategy, and operational excellence, owning complex programs from planning and contract commitments through customer-ready capacity delivery. It partners across engineering, supply chain, datacenter operations, networking, finance, and strategic partners.

The role calls for technical curiosity, rigor, comfort with ambiguity, and a focus on measurable business impact through operational excellence and product innovation. It also helps shape intelligent infrastructure buildout systems by applying automation, AI, and agentic workflows to improve predictability, optimize human effort, and accelerate Dock-to-Live execution. The position supports Microsoft’s long-term AI infrastructure strategy and its mission to empower people and organizations.

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.
• Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, such as through design, product-market fit, and launch, including an internal tool or framework.
• 6+ 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.
• 6+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience, such as through competitive disruption or replacing an established competing product.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, infrastructure engineering, or related technical leadership roles, including leading large-scale cloud, AI/GPU, HPC, datacenter, networking, or distributed-systems initiatives.
• 5+ years of proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs from strategy and requirements through deployment and production readiness, driving roadmaps, critical dependencies, risk management, execution predictability, and measurable business outcomes across multiple organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders, navigate complex technical and business tradeoffs, and drive innovation through automation, AI-powered systems, operational intelligence, or other solutions that improve scale, cycle time, efficiency, and operational rigor.

Responsibilities

• Own, define, and drive end-to-end strategy and execution for large-scale GPU and AI cluster buildouts, from capacity planning and infrastructure readiness through deployment, validation, and production handoff.
• Communicate program strategy, roadmap, progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recovery plans to senior Microsoft leaders and customer stakeholders through concise, data-driven narratives.
• Lead delivery of supercomputer-class infrastructure for strategic customers, translating business and customer requirements into infrastructure plans, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with hardware and software engineering, capacity planning, supply chain, data center infrastructure, networking, operations, finance, and customer-facing teams to deliver strategic capacity commitments predictably.
• Develop scalable processes, automation, telemetry, and deployment mechanisms that improve delivery predictability, deployment quality, and time to production.
• Partner with senior leaders to frame complex technical and business tradeoffs, establish clear decision points, and drive timely resolution of critical issues.
• Establish and maintain integrated execution plans, risk management mechanisms, milestone tracking, and operational review cadences.
• Identify delivery bottlenecks, drive issue resolution, and accelerate execution across organizational boundaries.
• Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation, and agentic workflows to infrastructure delivery processes.
• Challenge existing assumptions and workflows, using data and customer outcomes to redefine how work gets done.
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities to deliver outcomes that support Microsoft’s long-term AI infrastructure strategy.
• Communicate complex technical and business issues clearly to executive audiences.
• Act as a force multiplier for the organization by identifying opportunities others miss and driving durable solutions.

Benefits

• The posting indicates that certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation, with additional benefits and pay information available via the linked Microsoft careers page.

What This Job Offers

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