Principal Product Manager - CoreAI

<b>Overview</b><br><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Microsoft's <strong>Foundry Agent Service</strong> is the platform where developers and enterprises architect, debug, and deploy intelligent agents. The team bridges code-first development and cloud-native capabilities such as evaluations, observability, memory, tools, security, and governance while unifying experiences across GitHub, Visual Studio Code, and Azure. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">As a <strong>Principal Product Manager - CoreAI</strong>, you will join a team shaping how organizations build reliable agents at enterprise scale.</span></p><p> </p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">In this outbound product role, you will connect customer and market insight to product strategy and adoption. You will work hands-on with Foundry Agent Service, turn customer friction into clear roadmap inputs, and help customers, partners, field teams, and developers understand and adopt new capabilities. The role offers opportunities to deepen technical expertise in agent platforms, developer workflows, enterprise readiness, launch execution, and product storytelling. </span></p><p> </p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world. </span></p></div><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Own the outbound product strategy and prioritized plan for key Foundry Agent Service adoption and readiness activities, aligned to measurable customer outcomes. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Engage directly with enterprise customers, partners, internal adopters, and field teams to identify adoption barriers and translate recurring insights into product and roadmap recommendations. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Build and use agents on the platform to create technically credible demos, reference scenarios, tutorials, and product narratives for launches and customer engagements. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Partner with engineering, design, product marketing, documentation, support, and sales teams to coordinate launch readiness, feedback loops, and adoption programs. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Develop clear technical storytelling that explains code-to-cloud workflows across GitHub, Coding Agents, Visual Studio Code, Azure, and Foundry Agent Service. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Use telemetry, customer evidence, and qualitative feedback to evaluate adoption initiatives and recommend improvements to reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Represent customer and developer needs in cross-team planning while maintaining clear boundaries between product management, marketing, and quota-carrying sales responsibilities. </span></li></ul></div><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Required/Minimum Qualifications </strong></span></p><div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development </span><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">OR equivalent experience.</span></li></ul></li></ul></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Other Requirements: </strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">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: </span></div><ul><li style="list-style-type: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</span></li></ul><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Preferred/Additional Qualifications:</strong></span></div></div><div><div><div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">3+ years of experience working with developer tools, cloud platforms, enterprise software, or AI/machine-learning products. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">2+ years of experience translating customer or market insights into product requirements, launch plans, adoption programs, or measurable product improvements. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience building or demonstrating products that use large language models, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, or agentic workflows. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience shipping or driving adoption of B2B or enterprise-grade software with security, compliance, governance, or reliability requirements. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience with developer-facing APIs, SDKs, command-line tools, GitHub, Visual Studio Code, Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience creating technical demos, launch materials, documentation, or executive and developer narratives for complex platform products. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience using product telemetry and customer evidence to define success measures and prioritize investments.</span></li></ul></div></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>