Principal Product Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Product Manager. Location: Redmond, Washington, USA, or Mountain View, California, USA

Work Arrangement: Hybrid, 3 days per week in-office

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the product vision for AI-driven scientific discovery platforms, helping researchers accelerate scientific work and achieve reliable results.

• Develop Microsoft Discovery's academic and research partnership strategy by identifying priority research scenarios, building strategic relationships, and establishing engagement plans and success metrics.

• Expand relationships with academic institutions, research organizations, innovation partners, and industry stakeholders by aligning goals, coordinating execution, and addressing adoption barriers;

• Build proof-of-concept solutions, sample tools, connectors, and AI agents to demonstrate partner use cases and help external partners get started with Microsoft Discovery.

• Turn successful prototypes into reusable examples, technical guidance, and resources for partners.

• Lead the onboarding of independent software vendor (ISV) tools into Microsoft Discovery by working with partner developers and internal engineering teams to prototype integrations, troubleshoot technical issues, and validate end-to-end scientific workflows.

• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, scientists, and researchers to develop product experiences and underlying AI capabilities.

• Develop marketing and product rollout plans, create customer support plans, and promote product features at major events.

• Work with cross-functional teams to collect performance metrics, develop hypotheses, and address complex technical requirements to improve products.

• Identify features to discontinue when appropriate, manage customer communities, and build trust with customers across different sectors.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in product, service, project, or program management, or software development, or equivalent experience.

• Ability to meet Microsoft's security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of experience in product, service, project, or program management, or equivalent experience.

• Experience leading academic or research partnerships and translating partner needs into product priorities, joint delivery plans, and sustained adoption.

• Experience integrating third-party software tools through APIs, SDKs, or AI agent integrations, including hands-on prototyping and technical support for external developers.

• At least 4 years of experience shipping production-ready code through collaborative development processes.

• Experience as a full-stack developer.

• Experience using the latest AI-assisted development tools and systems.

• Experience with enterprise products, product adoption, and taking new products from initial development to scale.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Annual base salary: $142,800 to $274,800 across most US locations.

• San Francisco Bay Area and New York City: $188,000 to $304,200 annually.

• Additional benefits and compensation may be available depending on role eligibility.

• Further benefits and pay details: Microsoft Careers Compensation and Benefits.

Other Information:

• Job number: 200057922

• Date posted: October 6, 2026

• Profession: Product Management

• Discipline: Product Management

• Role type: Individual Contributor

• Career level: Product Management IC5

• Travel requirement: Less than 25%.

• Application deadline: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. The posting will remain open for at least five days.

• Company overview: Microsoft's Discovery and Quantum team develops AI-driven scientific discovery technologies and works with research institutions, industry partners, and software vendors to accelerate scientific innovation;

• Equal opportunity: Microsoft considers qualified applicants without discrimination based on protected characteristics under applicable laws. Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process.