Senior Product Manager (Foundry Observability)

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft Foundry Observability provides end-to-end visibility, evaluation, and monitoring for AI applications and agents—from early prototyping to production. Our team develops the platform that powers evaluation driven development, tracing for debugging, real time monitoring, quality measurements and optimization for AI systems.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will drive the strategy, experience, and execution of key observability capabilities that help developers and enterprises build high quality, safe, efficient, and trustworthy AI applications. This is a high visibility technical role in which you will work across Foundry portal and code first experiences, partnering with teams across the company to develop a world class product. You’ll also collaborate closely with engineering, design, and customers to shape the next generation of agent centric observability capabilities that developers rely on to build and operate their production AI systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent 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.
• 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

• AI Fluency: Understanding of LLMs, agentic systems, evaluation methods, observability concepts (e.g., tracing, monitoring, model metrics), and safety principles. Experience building or evaluating LLM based applications, agents, or RAG systems.
• Product Sense: Demonstrated ability to define enduser experience and product direction across complex technical domains.
• Execution Excellence: Proven track record delivering highimpact, enterprisegrade features in crossfunctional environments with multiple dependencies.
• Technical Depth: Ability to work closely with engineers on APIs, telemetry pipelines, evaluation systems, and integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the vision and strategy for AI observability with a focus on monitoring and actionable insights.
• Lead end to end product specifications for both portal UX and codefirst experiences.
• Partner with engineering to define the product roadmap.
• Drive crossfunctional execution with engineering, marketing, design, and partner teams, delivering enterprisegrade capabilities.
• Manage dependencies across the Observability portfolio including engaging closely with the Agents Service, Azure Monitor and other teams across the company.
• Engage directly with customers and partners to gather requirements, validate solutions, and refine product direction.
• Use customer signal, telemetry, and research insights to prioritize work and refine requirements.

What This Job Offers

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