Principal Product Manager at Microsoft

Principal Product Manager at Microsoft. $142,800 to $274,800 a year. Apply with swipeandhired.

Overview
Microsoft Office Shared Services & Experiences (OSSE) builds the foundational platform behind millions of document experiences across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Microsoft 365. This role will be part of the team that helps shape the future of fundamental architecture and investments to power performant, reliable and trustworthy document experiences for Office apps across WXP web, desktop and mobile as well as how Office documents evolve within AI-first experiences like Copilot Chat, Cowork and GitHub.
Success will require balancing platform architecture, performance, quality, and engineering agility while advancing AI-first product building to accelerate innovation and how work gets done. This is an opportunity to influence the next generation of document experiences, ensuring users can create, collaborate, and take action on trusted Office content wherever they work, while maintaining best-in-class quality, reliability, and competitiveness across both traditional productivity and AI-powered workflows.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will lead web platform investments focused on performance, reliability, and quality. You will drive cross-organization efforts to continuously have best in class fundamentals for Office web and assist on targeted aspects of fundamentals for Office mobile and macOS platforms. You’ll identify opportunities by understanding customers’ lived experiences and product friction, then translate those insights into performance, reliability, and quality roadmaps and deliverables. You’ll help set strategy with business impact and measures, communicate and get leadership buy-in, identify and prioritize initiatives and create specifications, all-in partnership with multiple product, engineering design and research teams.
This role is looking for someone with a growth mindset, passion for the way that fundamental gains can materially impact our product satisfaction and user experience and willingness to learn in a fast paced, inclusive culture within the Office Product Group.
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
Product Vision & Strategy

Performance, Reliability & Quality Leadership

Cross-Organization Leadership

Customer & Data Insights

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

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:

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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.