About the position
The Azure Developer Experience Growth team is seeking a Principal Product Manager (PM) Architect to define and own long-term product vision & strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform experiences and tools that accelerate application migration & modernization toward Microsoft Azure's developer-centric cloud application platform. A Principal PM Architect operates at the intersection of product strategy, architecture, and execution, owning a domain and magnifying the impact of others through leadership, clarity, and alignment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments, and can drive technical vision, customer outcomes, and organizational influence. This highly influential position will impact Microsoft's platform business globally through the delivery of a comprehensive set of agentic AI capabilities, broad evangelism across stakeholders, and associated platform growth.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, marketing, field sales, market research, and analytics and engage deeply with customers to inform and prioritize product opportunities
- Define long-term product portfolio vision and strategy and own multi-year, multi-horizon roadmaps with incremental value delivery
- Design composable and extensible capabilities that can scale through Partners
- Align and oversee cross-functional product management, engineering, design, and marketing to deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences that span products
- Iterate continually to measure investment impact and ensure roadmap alignment with evolving customer needs and business goals
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management, technical sales or consulting, or software engineering OR equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in designing, building, and running distributed applications in the cloud for large enterprise companies
- Experience in technology, cloud computing, agentic AI, and cloud migration business models and related objectives and benefits
- Experience mapping customer needs to technical solutions and experience applying technology to create desired business outcomes
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to engage in initiatives without defined processes or known outcomes
- Experience in a complex multi-team, strategy, and fast paced business environment
- Experience in delivering inner-source projects
- Willingness to take on a big challenge with significant growth potential
- An advanced understanding of technology business models
- Attention to detail, self-discipline, and self-motivation
- Balance in both strategy development and program execution, delivering incremental and measurable progress
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year
- Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
