We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to help define and deliver the next generation of the Azure PaaS & Serverless. In this role, you will identify important customer problems, develop a deep understanding of developer and enterprise application scenarios, and translate those insights into product strategy, requirements, and measurable outcomes.
You will work at the intersection of customers, engineering, design, marketing, sales, support, and partner teams. You will use customer engagement, product telemetry, market research, and experimentation to identify opportunities and make informed prioritization decisions. You will help drive capabilities and end-to-end experiences that enable developers and organizations to build, deploy, integrate, and manage modern and AI-powered applications on Azure.
This role offers a strong combination of technical product development, customer engagement, business strategy, and cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate is curious about technology, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and able to turn complex customer and market signals into clear product plans. You should be an effective collaborator and communicator who can build alignment across teams and maintain momentum from product discovery through delivery, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Our team is united by a common goal: making Azure the best application platform for every developer and organization. We learn directly from customers, experiment thoughtfully, and work across organizational boundaries to deliver experiences customers trust and love.
Responsibilities
As a Principal Product Manager on the Azure PaaS & Serverless team, you will:
- Develop a deep understanding of agent builders, developers, platform engineering teams, IT professionals, and enterprise customers through direct engagement, research, telemetry, and partnership with field and support teams.
- Identify unmet customer needs and emerging opportunities across modern application development, cloud-native computing, serverless technologies, integration, APIs, automation, and AI-enabled application patterns.
- Translate customer, business, and market insights into clear product requirements, scenarios, priorities, and success measures.
- Own and evolve the roadmap for a product area or end-to-end customer scenario, balancing customer value, engineering investment, platform strategy, and business impact.
- Partner closely with engineering and design throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery and solution definition through implementation, preview, launch, and iteration.
- Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces by framing decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, building alignment, and turning broad opportunities into executable plans.
- Use qualitative feedback, product telemetry, experimentation, and business metrics to evaluate product performance and guide investment decisions.
- Work across Azure and Microsoft to create cohesive experiences spanning cloud services, developer tools, GitHub, security, observability, data, and AI.
- Collaborate with marketing, sales, partner, support, and developer-relations teams to define product positioning, competitive differentiation, go-to-market plans, and adoption strategies.
- Monitor industry trends, competing platforms, open-source technologies, and changing developer practices to inform product strategy.
- Help ensure that capabilities meet customer expectations for security, reliability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost efficiency.
- Communicate product strategy, roadmap, progress, risks, and results clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
- Support product adoption through documentation, samples, demonstrations, presentations, customer engagements, and community events.
- Model Microsoft’s culture and values by demonstrating customer obsession, growth mindset, inclusive collaboration, accountability, and a commitment to delivering measurable outcomes.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or equivalent experience
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field
Industry experience building and growing cloud infrastructure or platform services
Hands on experience as a developer, product manager, program manager, or architect for cloud-based applications
Analytical skills required to set future direction and product plans based on data
Ability to dig deep into technical challenges
Proven track record for defining a technical vision and leading it to demonstrable business results
Strong sense of teamwork, personal integrity, responsibility and accountability
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong customer advocate, self-starter and problem solver
Knowledge of the Azure infrastructure and platform services is a big plus
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.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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