Principal Product Manager

The Office Shared Services and Experiences team is on a mission to connect the world to delightful, AI-forward Word, Excel, and PowerPoint capabilities and experiences from any platform, device or ecosystem for the millions of people using them every day across work, life, and school. You will have the opportunity to lead a PM team in a product-led, fast-paced and data-driven growth culture focused on building delightful shared experiences including Copilot value in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on mobile devices. You'll join the Office Shared Services and Experience organization and the shared Product Management organization driving shared experiences and platform capabilities across web and mobile platforms and be part of the larger family of Word, Excel and PowerPoint teams delivering Office.

About the Team:
In this role, you will lead a PM team and collaborate closely with some of the best Engineers, Designers, Data & Applied Scientists and User Researchers in the industry to help build fast, reliable and compelling experiences for end-users across Microsoft Mobile offerings. You will also envision & build the Copilot capabilities that WXP has to offer regardless of a users subscription or device and be part of revolutionizing Office in our AI-forward future. Joining the Office Product Group means you'll work with a team of partners and colleagues who live around the world-we strive for an inclusive culture where every team member feels connected, regardless of where they work and live.

Part of building a successful team is having an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. We invest in the health of our team and view "how we work" as seriously as the impact we have for customers and the business. Members of our team lead allyship and mentoring initiatives across Microsoft, and we invest in development of our team from new hires to the most senior levels.

About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced, data driven and customer-focused Principal Product Manager who's passionate about building innovative, user-centric, and delightful experiences to connect people looking to do "work" (for their personal life, work life or school) across Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Experience in leading high-performance teams, developing mobile applications including iOS & Android, hypothesis-driven growth experiments, developing and prototyping AI features, using LLMs for market insights, and conducting opportunity analysis based on business and competitive data are essential. A strong bias for action, a growth mindset, and first principles-led product sense are key to collaborating effectively with partners across Office and E+D. Success in this role requires customer empathy, strong UX skills, data and customer driven product reasoning, strategic planning and the ability to synthesize complex product and business areas with a strong point of view to drive decision making and collaborate effectively with a large and matrixed set of stakeholders is fundamental to both the success and opportunity with this role. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager with a growth mindset with comfort and energy to jump and lead a team with aggressive but clear goals and connect our Office Product strategy to customer value.

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.

• Work across the triad (PM, engineering, design, research, data science, business planning) to lead a team Product Managers focused on help users build engaging, fast, reliable experiences in the mobile offerings of Office and transform our suite with Copilot, model forward experiences while balancing with the powerful and familiar experiences that users know and love from Office.  
• Develop a deep understanding of the business, our customers, and the competitive landscape through market and customer research in order to drive clarity toward integrating AI into the product strategy with clear and measurable business and customer outcomes.  
• Partner across engineering teams, design, marketing, applied & data science and user research to develop strategies, priorities, and roadmaps with the ability to drive clear decision making in building AI first features including rapid prototyping, Evals, ensuring Responsible AI principles and trade-offs in ambiguous environment and adapt with changing inputs and new information. 
• Lead by example, contributing to other Product Manager growth, share ideas and partner toward solutions to improve our culture and ways of working.  
• Lead with the Model, Coach, Care framework to help your team members bring their best at work and thrive to be a high-performant, impact driven team.
• Lead team execution toward a product roadmap, with clear measures, projected impact and prioritization toward measurable outcomes leaning into new ways of working within and across teams given the AI-forward culture and transformation occurring within our products, team and world right now. 
• Foster an environment that encourages diversity of thought and an inclusive team culture. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience on end-user facing products working on complex products or experiences in large, cross-functional teams. 
• Experience in building AI first projects preferred.
• 2+ years of people management experience.
• Experience in leading high-performing, impact driven teams.
• Fluency in AI/ML concepts, Rapid Prototyping, and Evals.
• Good grasp of the Product Led Growth strategy and product development approach-from uncovering customer needs and pain points to understanding competitive landscape and strategy. 
• Experience building 1-2 products on a large scale/or within a large ecosystem especially on mobile (Android & iOS).

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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