Principal Product Manager

Microsoft • ,

8h • $142,800 - $304,200

About The Position

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team builds products that transform analytics, including Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services. Within Microsoft Fabric, the Platform team delivers the unified foundation that brings Fabric workloads together through shared infrastructure, governance, security, and a unified data model. OneLake is a core component of this platform, enabling customers to unify their data estate in a secure, managed, and open data lake.

The Principal Product Manager is responsible for the vision, roadmap, and delivery of OneLake’s operational, standards-based catalog service. The role works with internal teams and external partners to expand integrations based on open standards and develop capabilities that advance OneLake Catalog as a leading enterprise data catalog. Microsoft emphasizes inclusion, collaboration, a growth mindset, innovation, respect, integrity, and accountability.

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 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.
• 6+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market, such as growing a 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.
• Understanding of open file formats, Apache Iceberg, and Iceberg REST and Hive catalog concepts.
• Understanding of the catalog market, its key players, and differentiated capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish the long-term vision for OneLake Catalog and translate customer, platform, and market needs into a clear product strategy.
• Build and continuously refine the roadmap, balancing customer scenarios, platform investments, open standards, partner requirements, and competitive differentiation.
• Lead capabilities from concept through design, engineering collaboration, launch, and adoption, ensuring outcomes align with business and customer needs.
• Partner across Microsoft and with external technology providers to expand OneLake integrations using open standards and enable interoperability across the broader data ecosystem.
• Identify emerging customer needs, technology trends, community-driven efforts, and competitive opportunities, then develop differentiated capabilities that establish OneLake Catalog as a leading enterprise data catalog.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.

What This Job Offers

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