Principal Product Manager

The Personalized Data Product area builds the per-user content and context foundation that enables Microsoft 365 Copilot to understand what matters to each person. The Principal PM Architect will define the product architecture and multi-year strategy that connect personalized impact, activity context, and trusted content into a coherent platform for Copilot and adjacent Microsoft experiences. 

This role operates at the intersection of product strategy and technical architecture. The successful candidate will shape platform contracts, evaluation and diagnostics, scalable retrieval and indexing, signal quality, freshness, access control, and extensibility across Copilot, search, connectors, and agentic experiences. They will turn customer needs and system evidence into durable architectural decisions, measurable product outcomes, and aligned execution across teams. 

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 end-to-end product architecture and multi-year strategy for Personalized Data across the Personalized Impact, Personalized Context, and Personalized Content pillars.
• Translate priority user jobs, customer feedback, and quality signals into platform requirements, architectural principles, sequencing, and measurable product outcomes.
• Establish clear product contracts for personal activity signals, dependency and availability semantics, index and query behavior, latency, freshness, restrictions, and platform integration.
• Architect an operating model for impact measurement, scenario-based evaluation, per-answer attribution, diagnostics, and test environments that predict real user outcomes.
• Lead product architecture for a complete, fresh, secure, fast, and predictable personalized index, including search-stack isolation, capacity strategy, access-control freshness, and runtime enforcement.
• Drive extensibility across Copilot, Microsoft 365 search, Windows Search, connectors, and agentic orchestrators, including support for new activity signals and content classes.
• Partner deeply with engineering, data science, applied research, security, privacy, compliance, and product teams to resolve cross-layer tradeoffs and deliver coherent platform capabilities.
• Create decision frameworks and architecture narratives that make complex choices explicit, including customer value, quality, cost, latency, reliability, trust, and ecosystem impact.
• Provide technical product leadership across the organization by mentoring PMs, raising product architecture quality, aligning senior stakeholders, and communicating decisions to executive audiences.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

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: