Principal Product Manager
Microsoft · microsoft.com
RedmondLead / Manager8+ yrs
Straight from the company’s own careers site.
The job in short
Product management leadership.
Data scienceSaaSProduct management
Details
- Found
- 12 d ago · posted 2026-10-23
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
Full description
Lead the evolution from a single store experience to a registry-powered discovery and distribution platform for agents, plugins, skills, connectors, and related extensibility solutions. Shape end-to-end marketplace experiences including information architecture, search, ranking, recommendations, categories, collections, product detail pages, acquisition, re-entry, and lifecycle management. Define the unified plugin and agent marketplace model, ensuring underlying capabilities can be packaged and presented as coherent customer solutions rather than fragmented technical components. Own the growth strategy and experimentation roadmap across supply, discovery, acquisition, activation, sharing, engagement, retention, and repeat usage. Define a marketplace measurement framework and use usage, quality, relevance, reliability, and customer feedback signals to improve search, recommendations, merchandising, and product investment decisions. Partner with engineering, design, data science, research, business development, store operations, developer platform, governance, and Copilot product teams to deliver an integrated marketplace ecosystem. Align senior stakeholders around durable product decisions, resolve cross-organizational dependencies and tradeoffs, and communicate strategy and progress with clarity. Improved relevance through high-quality search, ranking, recommendations, curated collections, and personalized discovery. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework). 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). 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). Experience defining and delivering large-scale consumer, enterprise, marketplace, platform, ecosystem, or developer products. Demonstrated ability to create a product vision, translate it into a roadmap, and drive execution across multiple teams and organizational boundaries. Solid product sense for discovery, marketplace, search, recommendations, acquisition, engagement, and growth experiences. Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and measure customer and business outcomes. Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and turn complex technical and organizational constraints into simple customer experiences. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment across engineering, design, business, and partner organizations. Experience with AI agents, plugins, skills, connectors, MCP, developer ecosystems, app stores, SaaS marketplaces, or enterprise software distribution. Experience building platform capabilities that serve multiple first-party and third-party product experiences. Experience with product-led growth, marketplace flywheels, experimentation, funnel optimization, and recommendation or relevance systems. Understanding of enterprise discovery, entitlement, administration, trust, governance, and lifecycle considerations for extensibility ecosystems. Experience leading products that span native application experiences and public web destinations.
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