Principal Product Manager

Copilot in Microsoft Teams is redefining how people and AI work together in the frontier firm, moving from assistance to active collaboration. The Copilot experience in Teams brings a unified experience across chats, channels, and meetings, matching the one in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Whether reviewing a thread or generating action items in a channel, Copilot delivers context-aware summaries, suggestions and actions based on your goals.

This is a pivotal moment in redefining collaborative productivity and unlocking the new production function for the AI era. We're looking for a creative, self-starting, and visionary Principal Product Manager to define and deliver how hundreds of millions of Teams users can harness Copilot to collaborate effectively across chats and channels, with rich understanding of context in messages, documents, meetings, plans, Loop and more.

The right candidate will have a track record of delivering high-craft end user experiences, strategic thinking at the system level, cross-team collaboration, and external customer engagement, with clear understanding of developing and delivering AI solutions which are model-forward.

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

• Create and drive the product area vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Manage cross-team partnerships and relationships across disciplines to establish a shared vision, framework and roadmap.
• Deep customer focus, informed by data, own the end-to-end experience, and deliver with agility and quality.
• Orchestrate cross-org execution with engineering, applied science, design, and partner product teams to land complex, high impact experiences on time with clear milestones and crisp communication.
• Drive go-to-market readiness: shape rollout plans, partner with marketing on comms, ensure robust customer support, and anticipate future needs from ongoing feedback & usage.
• Represent the effort within Teams and with partners across Microsoft, providing clarity and advocating for value delivery.
• Represent Microsoft and the product externally with customers and partners. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• Experience in developing AI applications and solutions and writing evals.
• Ability to deliver rapid, customer-centric outcomes in emerging AI spaces while staying grounded in focus and clarity amidst the noise of evolving agentic trends.
• Systems thinking and ability to balance platform consistency with product flexibility.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas to others, including senior leadership, in a clear, effective, and motivating manner.
• Proven track record of shipping end user experiences at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to drive and execute strategic plans; influence strategies across multiple stakeholders considering synergies with other products, cultures, and geographies.
• Proven experience with negotiating with stakeholders at