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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 the strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end execution for the platform underlying Work IQ MCP (Model Context Protocol) and its provider ecosystem, with emphasis on retrieval and federation. Own how agents discover and retrieve evidence across indexed content and live sources, and how providers bring capabilities into Work IQ while ensuring security, reliability, and performance. Deeply technical, cross-organizational IC role with autonomous execution and end-to-end accountability for product outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Set platform direction and drive execution. Own and evolve the strategy and prioritized roadmap for Work IQ’s shared platform and provider ecosystem, translating customer, developer, and business needs into scalable capabilities and clear investment priorities while driving execution through delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement.
  • Lead retrieval as a product. Define product requirements and success measures for relevance, source coverage, freshness, citations, provenance, and structured evidence used by consuming agents.
  • Shape retrieval and federation experiences. Partner with engineering and applied science to define how indexed retrieval and live federated sources work together, including source selection, result normalization, ranking, latency, reliability, and partial-failure experiences.
  • Connect retrieval to downstream experiences. Establish requirements for source references, discovery, and integration patterns that enable agents to move reliably from retrieved evidence to authorized fetches or actions.
  • Build a scalable provider ecosystem. Define provider onboarding, capability and schema discovery, compatibility expectations, lifecycle management, and readiness requirements that support reusable platform experiences.
  • Make enterprise trust and operability foundational. Partner with engineering, security, and governance teams to define requirements related to identity, authorization, tenant policy, auditability, observability, reliability, and controlled rollout.
  • Lead through influence across organizational boundaries. Delegate and coordinate work across provider, consumer, product, and engineering teams and individuals outside your direct reporting structure. Navigate competing requirements and dependencies, drive follow-through on commitments, and maintain end-to-end accountability for product outcomes, including work outside your own organization.
  • Engage directly with customers, developers, and partners. Understand scenarios, evaluate product and integration experiences, answer product questions, gather feedback, and translate recurring insights into scalable product improvements.
  • Measure and improve product outcomes. Use telemetry, evaluations, customer insights, and production evidence to improve retrieval quality, adoption, reliability, performance, and cost.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Product strategy and roadmappingCross-functional leadership / influenceRetrieval / search product management
Nice to have:APIs / developer platformSecurity, identity & authorizationTelemetry / data-driven decision making
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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