Principal Product Manager - CoreAI

The Azure CoreAI team is hiring a Principal Product Manager to drive the strategy and growth for Content Understanding, a newly launched Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) service. This high-impact role focuses on enabling document scenarios across industries, helping customers extract structured insights from unstructured content at scale. 

As a Principal Product Manager, you will define product vision, identify emerging trends, and drive product-led growth in collaboration with engineering, research, design, and go-to-market teams. This is a unique opportunity to shape a foundational capability in Microsoft’s AI portfolio. 

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 building world-class AI application stacks that will delight enterprises and developers, delivering proven business results.
• Own a product area and be responsible for understanding developer needs and behaviors, defining product requirements, managing end-to-end product development, launches and iterations.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, customer-first, product development cycle.
• Translate business goals into strategy, user experience and technical requirements in close collaboration with UX, Data Science, Engineering, AI research, and Product Marketing teams.
• Define goals and performance indicators, set up and oversee experiments, measure success with data and research.
• Collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to build exceptional consumer-grade applications. 
• Engage with customers and partners to validate hypotheses, gather feedback, and evangelize the product vision. 
• Ensure alignment with Microsoft’s principles for responsible AI, privacy, and compliance. 
• Embody Microsoft's Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management, software development, or related fields
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience launching and scaling AI-powered products, ideally in software as a service (SaaS) or Cloud based services.
• Experience building products and solutions on Azure AI, OpenAI, or other GenAI platforms. 
• Experience with prototyping new ideas and managing the idea-to-feature lifecycle. 

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: 

• Proven technical acumen and ability to collaborate deeply with engineering and research teams. 
• Familiarity with document processing, natural language processing (NLP), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) or knowledge mining technologies. 
• Background in enterprise software as a service (SaaS) or platform product management. 
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
• MBA or advanced technical degree. 

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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 i