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Principal Product Manager

Microsoft· Product Management
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Redmond, WA$165.6k - $296.4kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Shape the platform & infrastructure strategy behind M365 and Copilot. Lead high-impact initiatives across Storage Fabric, Performance & Scale, Fleet & Capacity, and LLM API within M365 Core Platform. Apply AI-first product management to investigate problems, model tradeoffs, and drive measurable outcomes across capacity, performance, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic and technical initiatives spanning Storage Fabric, Performance & Scale, Fleet & Capacity, and LLM API, particularly where solutions require changes across multiple layers of the platform.
  • Take ambiguous, high-impact infrastructure problems from first principles through strategy, architecture, roadmap, execution, and measurable results.
  • Develop a system-level view of how storage, compute, GPU capacity, models, inference infrastructure, routing, caching, reliability, and product policy interact, and identify opportunities across organizational boundaries.
  • Shape how M365 and Copilot scale, including workload portability, infrastructure utilization, capacity allocation, and reducing resources required per customer outcome.
  • Connect demand, supply, workload characteristics, model efficiency, infrastructure efficiency, and economics to drive capacity and investment decisions.
  • Identify architectural simplifications and platform investments that remove structural bottlenecks.
  • Use telemetry, experimentation, modeling, and AI-driven analysis to quantify opportunities, test hypotheses, and measure outcomes.
  • Anticipate changes in models, hardware, workloads, and AI architectures and translate them into platform requirements and investment priorities.
  • Work across engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and infrastructure organizations to establish direction and drive complex initiatives through execution.
  • Define success metrics and communicate complex technical and economic tradeoffs to senior leaders for decision-making.
  • Mentor PMs and technical leaders to improve the organization's ability to reason about infrastructure as an interconnected system.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development - OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Product strategy and roadmappingSystems thinkingTelemetry, experimentation, and data-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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