Description
The AI Economy Team at Microsoft is building infrastructure to power organisations' AI application deployment.
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager for Developer Adoption & Ecosystem to accelerate developer discovery, adoption, and successful deployment of Microsoft AI platform capabilities.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will own developer adoption outcomes by identifying barriers to success and driving ecosystem investments that make Microsoft the easiest platform for developers.
You will shape strategy across partnerships, integrations, libraries, tooling, platform workflows, and community feedback loops.
This is a highly cross-functional role requiring strong product judgment, technical depth, developer empathy, and a data-driven approach.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organisation to achieve more.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute strategy for developer adoption, activation, time-to-value, and long-term ecosystem growth.
- Own the end-to-end developer success journey, identifying and addressing barriers to successful AI-powered application deployment.
- Build a deep understanding of developer workflows and determine where investments in integrations, SDKs, libraries, tooling, samples, and partnerships can accelerate adoption.
- Develop ecosystem strategies that make Microsoft AI capabilities easier to discover, evaluate, integrate, and deploy.
- Identify high-impact partnership opportunities across developer platforms, frameworks, tools, and communities.
- Establish metrics and operating mechanisms to measure developer activation, retention, production deployment, and ecosystem health.
- Gather insights from customers, partners, and developers to guide product strategy and investment decisions.
- Partner across Engineering, Developer Relations, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams.
- Drive alignment across multiple organisations contributing to the developer journey.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- Experience building APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, cloud services, or technical products used by external developers.
- Experience improving developer onboarding, activation, documentation, tooling, or platform usability.
- Experience driving adoption and growth for technical platforms or consumption-based products.
- Understanding of AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer ecosystems, APIs, or platform business models.
- Experience defining platform strategy across multiple teams and organisational boundaries.
- Experience communicating and engaging both technical and business audiences.
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.