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Principal Product Manager

Microsoft· Product Management
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Principal Product Manager in Microsoft Discovery and Quantum focusing on AI-driven science platform development, alliances and partnerships with academic, research, ISV and industry partners. Role emphasizes strategy, cross-functional leadership, startup-paced delivery, and turning scientific use cases into working solutions.

Responsibilities

  • As a Principal Product Manager with an entrepreneurial mindset, you will play an integral role in defining and executing a new vision for AI-driven science platform development. In this role, you will work with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, designers, scientists, and researchers to build new product experiences, shape underlying AI capabilities that support these experiences, and foster a culture of innovation and high-craft product making.
  • Help define and drive Microsoft Discovery’s academic and research strategy, including identifying priority research scenarios, building strategic relationships, and defining engagement plans and measures of success.
  • Support and expand ongoing engagements with academic institutions and research and innovation partners, aligning on shared goals, coordinating execution, and removing barriers to adoption.
  • Personally implement proof-of-concept solutions, sample tools, connectors and AI agents that demonstrate partner scenarios and help partners get started with Microsoft Discovery. Turn successful approaches into reusable examples and technical guidance.
  • Drive ISV tool onboarding into Microsoft Discovery, working hands-on with partner developers and internal engineering teams to prototype integrations, troubleshoot technical issues, and validate end-to-end scientific workflows.
  • Scale Product Marketing teams by building marketing and roll-out plans, as well as leading the creation of customer support plans.
  • Partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs to improve product development, identify features to deprecate, manage customer communities, and build trust with targeted customers across sectors.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Strategy and product management
Nice to have:Partnerships and ecosystemAPI/SDK/agent integrations
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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