Principal Product Manager - Copilot Ecosystem

The Copilot Ecosystem Team is building the next wave of AI solutions on the Microsoft 365 Copilot platform. Our mission is clear: transform how the world works using AI and rewire human productivity for the next 30 years. Our team is designing and building innovative AI agents on the Copilot platform, including agent templates for makers as well as more bespoke solutions in partnership with leading companies like Dow, Visa, Air India, ServiceNow, Adobe, and Cohere. The Copilot Ecosystem Team is hiring a Principal Product Manager to help lead this groundbreaking transformation across diverse industries and scenarios.

As a Prinicpal Product Manager you will work across our engineering teams and with some of the most innovative companies in the world to deliver engaging and transformative AI solutions for use by millions of end-users while also driving our platform growth strategy. You will also have a direct role in pushing the latest AI frontiers, including autonomous agentic workflows, deep research and reasoning, multi-agent frameworks, and complex data reasoning. You will get to work in a fast paced environment, predicated by rapid change, the opportunities enabled by ambiguity, and leveraging a mix of technical, business, and UX skills for maximum impact.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive key strategic initiatives related to ecosystem feedback, competitor signal, and product visioning with direct product impact.
• Capture, frame, and drive key business and product insights from the market to shape the future of Microsoft AI platform, apps, and developer toolset.
• Collaborate with product designers, architects, executives, and end-users from leading AI companies and solution providers to identify and validate strategic signals and drive incubation engagements.
• Lead scenario envisioning and UX+technical design to build and ship Copilot platform solutions; advise on GTM/adoption and evolving product and portfolio strategy.
• Serve as a key expert for Copilot platform capabilities; train, advise, and guide customers and partners on technical capabilities, solution design, and AI platform strategy.
• Develop and drive strategic initiatives to enable “hockey stick” ecosystem growth based on emerging agent capabilities, industry trends, and strategic partnerships.
• Research, contextualize, prototype, and evangelize frontier technology trends to drive long-term product shifts.
• Embody the Microsoft culture and values   

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management, software architecture, and/or software development.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience building/designing AI applications and agents, including use of conversational UX, agent frameworks, and platforms like GPT and Copilot.
• Demonstrated technical depth with solutions leveraging generative AI, LLMs, or cloud services architecture through shipped products or solutions.
• Track record of success in planning and delivering commercial SaaS or enterprise technology solutions from pitch and envisioning to pilot and adoption.
• Experience presenting and explaining product and technology topics in-depth to executive and technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous business development and/or GTM-facing experience.
• Recent experience driving generative AI-based solutions (RAG, GPT, LLM) and general awareness of the rapidly-evolving AI, especially generative AI landscape.
• Hands-on experience or solid familiarity with the Microsoft technology stack (M365 Copilot extensibility, Copilot Studio, AI agents, Azure OpenAI, Graph Connectors, Microsoft Teams extensibility platform, etc.).

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Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 14, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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