Description
The AI Economy Team at Microsoft is building infrastructure to power how organisations ground, deploy, and scale AI applications. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager, Developer Adoption & Ecosystem to accelerate how developers discover, adopt, and successfully deploy Microsoft AI platform capabilities.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will own developer adoption outcomes by identifying barriers to developer success and driving investments across the ecosystem that make Microsoft the easiest platform for developers to build on. You will shape strategy across partnerships, integrations, libraries, tooling, platform workflows, and community feedback loops, helping developers move from initial evaluation to successful production deployment.
This is a highly cross-functional role for a product leader who can operate in ambiguity, deeply understand developer needs, and translate ecosystem signals into scalable product investments. You will combine strong product judgment, technical depth, developer empathy, and a data-driven approach to accelerate adoption, retention, and ecosystem growth.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the 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 that prevent developers from successfully deploying AI-powered applications.
- Build a deep understanding of developer workflows and determine where investments in integrations, SDKs, libraries, tooling, samples, and partnerships can most effectively 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 to expand reach and reduce developer friction.
- 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 to align investments and improve developer outcomes.
- Drive alignment across multiple organisations contributing to the developer journey while maintaining a focus on measurable adoption outcomes.
Qualifications Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 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.
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.