As a Principal Product Manager on the Azure PaaS & Serverless team, you will: Develop a deep understanding of agent builders, developers, platform engineering teams, IT professionals, and enterprise customers through direct engagement, research, telemetry, and partnership with field and support teams. Identify unmet customer needs and emerging opportunities across modern application development, cloud-native computing, serverless technologies, integration, APIs, automation, and AI-enabled application patterns. Translate customer, business, and market insights into clear product requirements, scenarios, priorities, and success measures. Own and evolve the roadmap for a product area or end-to-end customer scenario, balancing customer value, engineering investment, platform strategy, and business impact. Partner closely with engineering and design throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery and solution definition through implementation, preview, launch, and iteration. Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces by framing decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, building alignment, and turning broad opportunities into executable plans. Use qualitative feedback, product telemetry, experimentation, and business metrics to evaluate product performance and guide investment decisions. Collaborate with marketing, sales, partner, support, and developer-relations teams to define product positioning, competitive differentiation, go-to-market plans, and adoption strategies. Monitor industry trends, competing platforms, open-source technologies, and changing developer practices to inform product strategy. Help ensure that capabilities meet customer expectations for security, reliability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost efficiency. Communicate product strategy, roadmap, progress, risks, and results clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership. Support product adoption through documentation, samples, demonstrations, presentations, customer engagements, and community events. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or equivalent experience Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field Industry experience building and growing cloud infrastructure or platform services Hands on experience as a developer, product manager, program manager, or architect for cloud-based applications Analytical skills required to set future direction and product plans based on data Ability to dig deep into technical challenges Proven track record for defining a technical vision and leading it to demonstrable business results Strong sense of teamwork, personal integrity, responsibility and accountability Excellent verbal and written communication skills Strong customer advocate, self-starter and problem solver Knowledge of the Azure infrastructure and platform services is a big plus