Principal Product Manager, Azure PaaS & Serverless - CoreAI

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. 

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.