Job description

Overview Dynamics 365 and Power Platform depend on a core data platform that manages business data, transactions, security, extensibility, and application lifecycle at enterprise scale. As customers modernize their applications and adopt AI, the platform must keep data governed, available, and economically sustainable while supporting the controls expected of enterprise business systems. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead product strategy for the core data platform behind Microsoft business applications. You will set strategy and investment priorities across Dataverse and Finance and Operations data-platform capabilities, including data governance and lifecycle management, storage economics, integration, reliability, scale, and the partner ecosystem. You will also guide how supported interfaces and emerging agent integrations build on that foundation. The portfolio spans important Finance & Operations (F&O) scenarios and shared platform capabilities used across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. This Redmond-based role offers broad product ownership at an important point in the evolution of enterprise applications: shaping the data foundation used by business applications, analytics, and AI. You will work closely with engineering teams, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform product teams, Microsoft AI product groups, customers, and ecosystem partners, with regular exposure to senior leaders as you drive decisions that are visible in customer experience and business results. The role is well suited to a product leader who enjoys making difficult platform choices, building alignment across organizational boundaries, and measuring success through customer outcomes. 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 • Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Business Applications core data platform, with clear priorities and measurable customer and business outcomes. • Set modernization priorities for data-platform reliability, scalability, extensibility, and supported access patterns, including clear platform contracts and investment choices. • Use customer research, partner input, and product data to identify the highest-value business data scenarios, then drive reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions. • Set product requirements for availability, performance, observability, compatibility, administrator control, and task completion across enterprise application and AI scenarios. • Define how Dataverse, Finance and Operations, and shared data-platform services should work together, including where storage, integration, extensibility, application semantics, and AI capabilities should converge and where product boundaries should remain explicit. • Set the product strategy and external positioning for data governance and lifecycle management across the core platform, including policy-based retention, archiving, safe deletion, recoverability, and administrator tools that help customers manage data responsibly at scale. • Shape storage economics and capacity-management strategy across the platform, including entitlement clarity, usage insights, and predictable customer paths for addressing sustained overages; balance customer outcomes, platform cost, and sustainable growth. • Partner with security, trust, and governance leaders to incorporate identity, authorization, policy, audit, and compliance requirements into core data-platform capabilities and supported AI scenarios. • Partner with product economics and business-planning leaders to develop commercial models, pricing and packaging inputs, and evidence-based investment cases for core platform capabilities. • Lead ecosystem strategy across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform product teams, Microsoft AI products, independent software vendors, and systems integrators; translate commitments into reusable data-platform capabilities and a prioritized engineering roadmap. • Partner with domain product leads to connect core platform strategy with application-specific administration, migration, lifecycle, compliance readiness, and customer outcomes. • Define and review the scorecard for platform adoption, reliability, storage efficiency, ecosystem usage, AI scenario success, and paid growth; use the evidence to guide investment and deprecation decisions. • Represent the core data-platform vision and roadmap with enterprise customers, partners, the field, and senior Microsoft leadership, and communicate tradeoffs clearly across technical and business audiences. Qualifications Required 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. 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: • Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ 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). • 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). • 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). • Experience leading product strategy for enterprise ERP, transaction platforms, developer platforms, or other mission-critical business systems. • Technical understanding of enterprise data platforms, including storage architecture, data lifecycle, integration, extensibility, reliability, and operations at scale. • Experience developing commercial models, ecosystem strategy, or partner programs for data or platform products. • Experience with AI agents or comparable intelligent application patterns, including the product and safety considerations involved when software acts on structured business data. • Ability to lead across organizational boundaries and influence engineering, application, AI, finance, and business teams without direct authority. • Solid written and verbal communication skills, with experience explaining complex technical and business decisions to executives, customers, and partners. • Ability to make sound product decisions and maintain momentum when requirements, ownership, or technical constraints are still being clarified. #AGENT365 #CAP 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 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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Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Business Applications core data platform, with clear priorities and measurable customer and business outcomes.
Set modernization priorities for data-platform reliability, scalability, extensibility, and supported access patterns, including clear platform contracts and investment choices.
Use customer research, partner input, and product data to identify the highest-value business data scenarios, then drive reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
Set product requirements for availability, performance, observability, compatibility, administrator control, and task completion across enterprise application and AI scenarios.
Partner with security, trust, and governance leaders to incorporate identity, authorization, policy, audit, and compliance requirements into core data-platform capabilities and supported AI scenarios.
Partner with product economics and business-planning leaders to develop commercial models, pricing and packaging inputs, and evidence-based investment cases for core platform capabilities.
Partner with domain product leads to connect core platform strategy with application-specific administration, migration, lifecycle, compliance readiness, and customer outcomes.
Define and review the scorecard for platform adoption, reliability, storage efficiency, ecosystem usage, AI scenario success, and paid growth; use the evidence to guide investment and deprecation decisions.
Represent the core data-platform vision and roadmap with enterprise customers, partners, the field, and senior Microsoft leadership, and communicate tradeoffs clearly across technical and business audiences.
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 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.
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ 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).
6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).

Nice-to-haves

Experience leading product strategy for enterprise ERP, transaction platforms, developer platforms, or other mission-critical business systems.
Technical understanding of enterprise data platforms, including storage architecture, data lifecycle, integration, extensibility, reliability, and operations at scale.
Experience developing commercial models, ecosystem strategy, or partner programs for data or platform products.
Experience with AI agents or comparable intelligent application patterns, including the product and safety considerations involved when software acts on structured business data.
Ability to lead across organizational boundaries and influence engineering, application, AI, finance, and business teams without direct authority.
Solid written and verbal communication skills, with experience explaining complex technical and business decisions to executives, customers, and partners.
Ability to make sound product decisions and maintain momentum when requirements, ownership, or technical constraints are still being clarified.

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