Principal Product Manager, Azure PaaS & Serverless CoreAI

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to help define and deliver the next generation of the Azure PaaS & 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.

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 Microsofts culture and values by demonstrating customer obsession growth mindset inclusive collaboration accountability and a commitment to delivering measurable outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in product/service/project/program management or equivalent experience

• Masters 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 $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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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