Principal Product Manager

Businesses are entering a new era where AI agents can move beyond answering questions to understanding, reasoning over, and acting on real business work. Business applications contain much of the data, processes, business logic, and operational context that make that possible. 

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager, Application Intelligence to help define this emerging product area. The initial focus of this role will be defining how we help customers understand how their business processes operate, identify improvement opportunities, and turn those insights into measurable business outcomes through people, applications, and AI agents. 

This role is highly cross-functional, spanning Business Applications, Work IQ, enterprise data and connectors, process intelligence, and agentic experiences. The right candidate will work backwards from customers to define the product strategy, experiences, and platform capabilities needed to make Application Intelligence a foundational part of how people and AI agents interact with business systems. 

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. 

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for emerging Application Intelligence experiences and capabilities. 

• Work backwards from customers to identify high-value business problems and translate ambiguous needs into validated product opportunities. 

• Own requirements, user journeys, and end-to-end experiences spanning application and process discovery, analysis, insights, recommendations, and agentic actions. 

• Partner with engineering, design, and research to rapidly prototype and validate new experiences with customers before scaling investment. 

• Define success metrics, experimentation plans, and proof points that determine whether we scale, iterate, or stop an investment. 

• Determine how business data, application context, process signals, enterprise context, and agent capabilities come together across Microsoft products and platforms. 

• Make product and platform boundary decisions that create reusable intelligence capabilities rather than one-off solutions. 

• Influence roadmap and dependencies across Business Applications, Work IQ, Agent 365, and partner teams to deliver coherent end-to-end customer outcomes. 

• Develop a strong point of view on how Application Intelligence changes business applications and enables AI agents to understand and improve how organizations operate. 

• Communicate product strategy, customer evidence, tradeoffs, and results to senior leadership, customers, and partners. 

• 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: