Principal Product Manager

Overview

SharePoint powers content, collaboration, and knowledge for the enterprise. It serves as both the content platform behind Microsoft 365 - including Copilot, Teams, Microsoft Office, OneNote, and Loop - and as one of the world's largest enterprise content management platforms, enabling organizations to build millions of tailored business applications and workflows.

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to help define the next generation of AI-powered experiences that help customers achieve meaningful business outcomes. As AI transforms how organizations work, SharePoint is uniquely positioned to combine content, automation, Microsoft Lists, and business knowledge into intelligent experiences that help customers accomplish their most important work.

As a Principal Product Manager, you'll define and drive product strategy for experiences that help customers achieve business outcomes across SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, automation, and Microsoft 365. Working closely with engineering, design, research, applied science, data science, customer experience (CXE), and customers, you'll identify the highest-value opportunities to transform how organizations work with content and AI.

In this role, you'll partner directly with customers to understand their business challenges, identify high-value opportunities, and translate those insights into product investments across SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, automation, Microsoft 365, and Copilot. You'll work across engineering, design, research, data science, customer experience (CXE), applied science, and partner teams to shape experiences that connect AI with enterprise content and business processes at massive scale.

This is a highly strategic IC role with broad influence across Microsoft. You'll define product direction, build alignment across organizations, and help shape how AI, enterprise content, automation, and workflows come together to help customers achieve measurable business outcomes.

Our Culture

We are an AI-first team building experiences across one of the largest business and consumer services on the planet. Our work spans enterprise content management, AI experiences, automation, developer platforms, and large-scale distributed systems.

We are customer obsessed, data informed, and hypothesis driven. We believe every investment should demonstrate measurable customer value, and we continuously validate ideas through experimentation, customer engagement, and product evaluation.

We partner closely with exceptional engineers, designers, researchers, applied scientists, data scientists, customer experience teams, and customer-facing organizations across Microsoft. Our team spans the United States, Europe, and Asia, and every member has the opportunity to influence products used by hundreds of millions of people every day.

We foster an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives lead to better products. Transparency, curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning are central to how we work. We encourage experimentation, thoughtful risk taking, and investing in one another's growth while maintaining a relentless focus on delivering meaningful customer impact.

You'll operate across organizational boundaries, bringing together platform capabilities, customer insights, and emerging AI technologies to shape experiences that deliver measurable business value.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Together, we build products that help organizations unlock the full value of their knowledge, content, and AI.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and strategy for experiences that help customers achieve business outcomes across SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, automation, and Microsoft 365.

• Partner directly with enterprise customers to deeply understand their business processes, validate opportunities, and ensure product investments solve meaningful customer problems.

• Drive product investments that connect enterprise content, workflows, automation, and AI into seamless end-to-end experiences.

• Partner with engineering, design, research, applied science, data science, customer experience (CXE), and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality AI experiences informed by customer feedback and product evaluation.

• Build alignment across multiple Microsoft organizations to deliver integrated experiences spanning SharePoint, OneDrive, Copilot, Microsoft Lists, and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

• Define success metrics, experimentation strategies, and evaluation frameworks that demonstrate customer impact and inform investment decisions.

• Stay at the forefront of AI innovation and translate emerging technologies into practical product opportunities that create differentiated customer value.

• Represent the product with customers through executive engagements, conferences, design partnerships, and customer advisory discussions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years 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 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 (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).

• 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).

• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

• Experience leading highly cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, design, research, data science, customer experience (CXE), and executive stakeholders.

• Experience defining product strategy using customer insights, data, and experimentation.

• Effective communication and influence skills with the ability to align multiple organizations without direct authority.

• Experience building AI-powered or Copilot experiences.

• Experience with enterprise productivity, collaboration, workflow, automation, Microsoft Lists, or content management platforms.

• Experience partnering directly with enterprise customers to identify unmet needs and validate product direction.

• Familiarity with modern AI technologies, agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), automation, or workflow orchestration.

• Passion for building products that help customers achieve meaningful business outcomes at global scale.

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.

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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. (