Description
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to join the Microsoft AI team. As a Principal Product Manager, you will help shape the next generation of AI models. Working backward from customer and product needs, you will identify opportunities for new research, develop evaluations and datasets, and partner closely with researchers and engineers to drive model development and deployment.
The Microsoft AI team is led by Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanity remains firmly in control.
Key Characteristics of Successful Candidates:
- Hold an exceptionally high bar for delivering excellence in every task
- Are able to balance speed and quality even when delivering ambiguous or emerging goals
- Bring ambitious bias for action, push boundaries, and take ownership
- Keep things simple
- Deeply and authentically value teamwork
- Maintain an optimistic, humble, can-do attitude to all tasks, big and small
Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver the model roadmap: Define the roadmap in collaboration with key stakeholders. Understand and navigate tradeoffs quickly and strategically. Balance quality with speed. Drive continuous progress through ambitious and energized product leadership.
- Partner to build alignment: Work closely with partner teams to understand and translate their product needs into model requirements.
- Define model evaluations: Take a scientific, data-driven approach to product success. Build relevant benchmarks that enable us to climb to frontier quality on the tasks that matter for the product.
- Determine launch readiness: Establish clear criteria for model launches. Own the go/no-go decisions that balance capability, risk, and product goals. Ensure strong alignment and transparent, regular communication throughout the launch process.
- Stay at the frontier: Track the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Translate what you learn into actionable product priorities.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional/Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market.
- 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market.
- 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience.
- 5+ experience defining product requirements for AI models and driving decisions and execution across multiple senior level stakeholders.
- 5+ years direct, hands-on collaboration with model researchers and ML engineers.
- Proven ability to ship best-in-class AI models or AI enabled products in a fast-paced, competitive environment.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and reason with precision through the technical and commercial drivers required to determine a Go to Market (GTM) strategy for new AI products.
- Proven ability to bring successful models, agents, or native AI products to market by deeply engaging with customers and developers across different verticals.
Salary Information: Product Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 – $304,200 per year.
Product Management IC6 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 – $331,200 per year.