Principal Product Manager, Azure PaaS & Serverless

Quick Facts

• Own and evolve the roadmap for Azure PaaS and serverless product areas and end-to-end customer scenarios
• Work with customers, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver measurable outcomes

Description

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to define and deliver the next generation of Azure PaaS & Serverless. You will identify customer problems, understand developer and enterprise application scenarios, and translate insights into product strategy, requirements, and measurable outcomes. You will partner across engineering, design, marketing, sales, support, and partners to deliver end-to-end experiences that help developers and organizations build, deploy, integrate, and manage modern and AI-powered applications on Azure.

Responsibilities

• Engage agent builders, developers, platform engineering teams, IT professionals, and enterprise customers through direct engagement, research, telemetry, and field/support partnerships
• Identify unmet needs and emerging opportunities across cloud-native computing, serverless, integration, APIs, automation, and AI-enabled application patterns
• Translate customer, business, and market insights into requirements, scenarios, priorities, and success measures
• Own and evolve the roadmap balancing customer value, engineering investment, platform strategy, and business impact
• Partner with engineering and design across discovery, solution definition, implementation, preview, launch, and iteration
• Use qualitative feedback, product telemetry, experimentation, and business metrics to evaluate performance and guide investment
• Drive cohesive experiences across Azure and Microsoft services (developer tools, GitHub, security, observability, data, and AI)
• Collaborate on positioning, differentiation, go-to-market plans, and adoption strategies with marketing, sales, partners, support, and developer relations
• Monitor industry trends and competing platforms/open-source technologies to inform strategy
• Ensure security, reliability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost efficiency meet customer expectations
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, progress, risks, and results to technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership
• Support adoption through documentation, samples, demos, presentations, customer engagements, and community events

Requirements

• 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, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years in product/service/project/program management (or equivalent)
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, or related field
• Industry experience building and growing cloud infrastructure or platform services
• Hands-on experience as a developer, product manager, program manager, or architect for cloud-based applications
• Data-driven analytical skills for product planning
• Strong technical depth and ability to resolve complex technical challenges
• Proven track record setting a technical vision and delivering demonstrable business results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong customer advocacy and accountability
• Knowledge of Azure infrastructure and platform services

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and other compensation (per Microsoft careers information)
• Typical U.S. base pay range: USD $142,800–$274,800 per year (different ranges for San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metro)