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Principal Product Manager

Microsoft· Product Management
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Redmond, WA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Lead web platform investments focused on performance, reliability, and quality for Office experiences across web, desktop, and mobile, with involvement in AI-first contexts and collaboration with multiple product, engineering, design, and research teams.

Responsibilities

  • Use and scale AI-native product and engineering practices to identify opportunities, accelerate improvements in performance, quality, and reliability, and demonstrate measurable customer and business impact across Office experiences.
  • Define and drive the long-term strategy for web platform foundations with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability, and quality.
  • Establish and prioritize product investments that improve user-perceived performance, end-to-end experience health, and platform efficiency.
  • Create and maintain a multi-year roadmap aligned with Microsoft 365 and Copilot business objectives.
  • Drive platform modernization initiatives that simplify architecture, reduce technical debt, and accelerate innovation.
  • Drive product strategy and execution of software delivery on macOS
  • Partner with engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver improvements in startup time, responsiveness, navigation, and document interaction performance.
  • Define success metrics, performance objectives, and measurable business outcomes.
  • Lead investigations into performance bottlenecks across client, service, network, and platform layers.
  • Champion a performance-first culture through measurable goals, telemetry, experimentation, and accountability.
  • Drive platform-wide reliability and quality initiatives that improve service availability, resiliency, and customer trust.
  • Drive adoption of AI-powered product and engineering practices to improve decision-making, accelerate execution, increase development efficiency, and unlock measurable gains in platform performance, reliability, quality, and customer satisfaction.
  • Collaborate across platform teams to drive initiatives and improvements for web, mobile, and macOS experiences.
  • Build alignment across multiple product teams, and leadership stakeholders.
  • Influence technical and product decisions without direct authority.
  • Communicate strategy, tradeoffs, risks, and execution plans to all levels of the organization from feature crews to senior leaders and executives.
  • Drive prioritization decisions across competing investments and platform dependencies.
  • Leverage telemetry, experimentation, customer feedback, and research to identify platform opportunities.
  • Translate technical platform investments into measurable customer and business impact.
  • Define key performance indicators and continuously evaluate effectiveness of product investments.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Product strategy and roadmappingPerformance engineeringCross-organizational leadership
Nice to have:Telemetry & data-driven decision making
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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