Principal Product Manager, AI Infrastructure
Microsoft· Software· Sep 11, 2026 · 2mo ago
United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
In office
Full-time
Principal
$180K–$240K est.
8+ years exp
Job description
Overview
Microsoft’s AI Infrastructure and Platforms organization is building the foundation that transforms rapid innovation in models, services, platform primitives, and hardware into scalable capabilities that customers and product teams can use.
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead product strategy and critical workstreams for AI Capability Onboarding. This role owns how new capabilities enter the platform, become reusable building blocks, and progress from early innovation through packaging, launch, distribution, and lifecycle management.
You will create the product strategy, standards, interfaces, and reusable mechanisms that allow Microsoft to onboard an expanding portfolio of capabilities with greater speed, quality, and consistency. This is a highly visible senior individual-contributor role at the intersection of AI, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, efficiency, and complex cross-company collaboration.
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
• Define and own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for moving new AI capabilities from innovation to platform availability.
• Lead the end-to-end capability onboarding portfolio, from intake and requirements through packaging, launch, catalog distribution, lifecycle management, and transition to production adoption.
• Transform repeated launch activities, manual workflows, and bespoke integrations into reusable platform primitives, standardized contracts, automation, and self-service onboarding paths.
• Translate customer, partner, market, and business needs into clear product requirements, launch criteria, investment priorities, and portfolio tradeoffs across capability types and providers.
• Establish onboarding standards, decision rights, ownership boundaries, and handoff contracts across Product Management, Technical Program Management, Engineering, compliance, operations, and downstream product teams.
• Partner with Engineering on technical feasibility, architecture implications, reliability, and platform investments, and with TPM on integrated plans, dependencies, risks, governance, and launch readiness.
• Define and use outcome-based scorecards, including time to platform availability, onboarding throughput, launch success, standard-path adoption, capability reuse, and reduction in manual work, to guide investment decisions and continuously improve the onboarding system.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. This includes passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Additional or preferred qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated success owning product strategy for a technically complex platform, including defining the target customer, product value proposition, differentiated product direction, multi-year roadmap, and measurable business outcomes.
• Strong platform product management experience, including turning fragmented workflows, repeated integrations, or one-off launches into reusable product capabilities, common contracts, scalable services, automation, and self-service experiences.
• Technical depth in AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer platforms, or an adjacent domain, with the ability to engage credibly in architecture and feasibility discussions while maintaining clear accountability for the product’s what, why, customer focus, and success measures.
• A record of leading consequential product decisions across multiple organizations using clear narratives, written strategy, evidence, decision frameworks, and executive communication to align senior product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical product judgment, including experience defining outcome-based metrics, instrumenting customer and platform journeys, interpreting telemetry and qualitative feedback, and using evidence to improve product direction after launch.
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:
careers.microsoft.com
Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
careers.microsoft.com
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.
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