Principal Product Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Product Manager (Product Architecture)

• Focus: Personalized Data platform for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Description

Define the end-to-end product architecture and multi-year strategy for Personalized Data that enables Copilot to understand what matters to each person. Own platform contracts across personal activity signals, indexing/query behavior, latency/freshness, access control, evaluation/diagnostics, and extensibility across Copilot, search, connectors, and agentic experiences. Convert customer needs and system evidence into architectural decisions and measurable product outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define product architecture and multi-year strategy across Personalized Impact, Personalized Context, and Personalized Content.

• Translate customer feedback, jobs-to-be-done, and quality signals into platform requirements and measurable outcomes.

• Establish platform contracts covering dependency/availability semantics, index/query behavior, latency, freshness, restrictions, and integrations.

• Architect evaluation and measurement operating models (scenario-based evaluation, per-answer attribution, diagnostics, and test environments).

• Lead architecture for a fresh, secure, fast, and predictable personalized index (isolation, capacity strategy, access-control freshness, runtime enforcement).

• Drive extensibility across Copilot, Microsoft 365 search, Windows Search, connectors, and agentic orchestrators.

• Partner with engineering, data science, applied research, security, privacy, compliance, and product teams on cross-layer tradeoffs.

• Create decision frameworks and architecture narratives covering value, quality, cost, latency, reliability, trust, and ecosystem impact.

• Provide technical product leadership: mentor PMs, raise architecture quality, align stakeholders, and communicate to executives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development (or equivalent experience).

• Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years.

• Demonstrated experience leading technically complex platform products from strategy and architecture through execution and measurable outcomes.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, search/indexing, retrieval/ranking, data platforms, or AI/ML product architecture.

Benefits

Competitive base pay range in the U.S.; additional benefits and compensation may apply (per Microsoft corporate pay information).