Senior Product Manager

Overview

Are you interested in working on large scale cloud service platforms built on Kubernetes where your customers are a large and diverse set of Microsoft 365 product teams, running some of the largest workloads in Microsoft? If so, come be a part of the Microsoft 365 Core Product Management team.


Our team's mission is to make Microsoft 365 the most secure, efficient, intelligent, and scalable service platform in the world. We build managed infrastructure and platform capabilities that enable Microsoft 365 engineering teams to rapidly develop, deploy, and operate services at global scale, including the next generation of AI-powered and agentic workloads.

As an experienced and highly technical Product Manager, you will define strategy and drive roadmap execution for our Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform, with a focus on developer experiences, intelligent workload orchestration, scalability, and platform reliability. You will partner closely with engineering teams across Microsoft to enable services such as AI agents and agentic systems, to run securely, efficiently, and at hyperscale across Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, platform engineering, and AI platform evolution. You will help shape the foundational platform capabilities that power the future of Microsoft 365 and intelligent agent ecosystems.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

The work in this role is wide-ranging and will involve:

• You will influence others to drive business impact across the organization and track success criteria for multiple feature areas across divisions. You'll also be an expert in identifying long-term investment opportunities and engaging partners to garner support for those feature areas.
• You will define feature sets and facilitate senior-level usability reviews with customers. You'll own the roadmap for multiple feature areas across divisions and collaborate with partner teams to build golden configurations, scalable platform patterns, and scenario walkthroughs.
• As an expert, you will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs to improve product development across multiple areas. You'll also identify features to deprecate, and build trust with targeted customers.
• Driving growth strategy and roadmap for the product, including platform capabilities that enable AI-powered and agentic workloads to run securely, reliably, and efficiently at hyperscale.
• Defining and driving the infrastructure vision for large-scale Kubernetes-based platforms that support fleet provisioning, workload orchestration, and the next generation of intelligent agents and distributed AI systems.
• Evangelizing the product and platform vision to new customers across Microsoft, including teams building AI, Copilot, and agentic experiences.
• Working with diverse stakeholders to clarify product requirements, including platform owners, customer engineering teams, AI platform teams, and compliance auditors.
• Working closely with Microsoft 365 and Azure teams to drive new platform capabilities and ensure business continuity for all customers running on this platform.
• Partnering with engineering teams across Microsoft to enable scalable execution environments, operational patterns, and platform primitives for agentic systems and autonomous workflows.
• Managing the backlog and priorities for your feature areas, ensuring features land on time and with high quality.
• Delivering an enterprise-grade platform to customers across multiple clouds while supporting evolving AI and agentic platform requirements.
• Establish a network of partnerships with technical leaders across the company.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

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 thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years of experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 4+ years of experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 4+ years of experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• 2+ years of familiarity with Kubernetes or Containers. Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills through all levels of the organization, technical and non-technical.
• Innate curiosity and ability to thrive in ambiguous situations as you work to bring clarity to those around you.
• Individuals with a positive, collaborative, can-do attitude and bias for action.
• Cultural activators, who place a high priority on a healthy team culture and contribute to that culture themselves.
• Critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, a strong history of solving complex problems and the ability to thrive in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• Understanding or experience with building software platforms and of the software development process.
• Solid empathy for developers and working backwards from customers.
• Design thinking, structured problem solving, data driven decision making and strong analytical skills.
• Track record of going technically deep and quickly ramping up on new technologies.
• Ability to build vision and roadmap for complex areas.
• Experience Building Agentic Platforms.

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800.00 - $234,700.00 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 $160,200.00 - $261,000.00 per year.


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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.