Principal Product Manager

<b>Overview</b><br><div dir="ltr"><p>We are seeking a Principal Product Manager who can navigate complex technical and organizational dependencies, establish clear success metrics, remove onboarding friction, and ensure that every 1P agent delivers a trusted, manageable, and cohesive Agent 365 experience. In this role, you will own the strategy and execution for onboarding Microsoft first-party (1P) agents to Agent 365, creating a consistent, scalable path for teams to register, identify, observe, govern, and secure their agents. You will partner across product, engineering, security, identity, compliance, and agent-platform teams to define onboarding requirements, integration patterns, readiness criteria, and reusable capabilities; translate partner and customer needs into a prioritized roadmap; and drive programs from early design through broad adoption. </p><p>Agent 365 is strategically important because it provides the foundation for Microsoft to become the trusted control plane for enterprise AI agents. As organizations deploy growing numbers of agents across products, platforms, and clouds, they need a unified way to discover, manage, secure, govern, and measure those agents throughout their lifecycle. By bringing Microsoft’s 1P agents into a consistent management model first, Agent 365 establishes the standards, capabilities, and customer expectations required to accelerate enterprise adoption, strengthen trust in agentic AI, and extend the value of Microsoft’s security, identity, compliance, and productivity ecosystem.</p><p>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.</p></div><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div dir="ltr"><ul><li>Own and articulate the product vision and strategy for onboarding 1P (Microsoft) agents to Agent 365</li><li>Drive cross-organization alignment across Microsoft's security, identity, and data-governance solutions.</li><li>Partner with the security ecosystem to position Microsoft as the orchestration layer for agent risk, working alongside third-party security and posture-management providers.</li><li>Translate raw security telemetry into actionable signals: agent risk and criticality, intent and impact assessment, risk categorization, and remediation experiences.</li><li>Represent Microsoft externally with chief information security offices (CISOs), security advisory boards, and industry analysts, and bring that market insight back into the product roadmap.</li></ul></div><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Required Qualifications:</span></h3><div><ul><li>Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development<ul><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li></ul></div><div><h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Preferred Qualifications:</span></h3><div><ul><li>Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development<ul><li>OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li>4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).</li><li>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).</li><li>6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).</li></ul></div></div> <br><br><p>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. </p><p></p> <p>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a></p><br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>