Principal Product Manager - Azure Speech (CoreAI)

Drive product adoption and growth Own the outbound product strategy for Speech and Voice AI, with particular focus on real-time conversational and voice-agent scenarios. Develop strategies to accelerate adoption, consumption, and business growth across enterprise customers, developers, ISVs, and strategic partners. Identify high-value customer scenarios and turn early successes into repeatable adoption patterns. Build lighthouse customer engagements that demonstrate differentiated business value. Establish a feedback loop between customers, the field, and engineering. Develop customer narratives, solution scenarios, demos, competitive guidance, and other field-enablement assets. Build the Voice AI ecosystem Develop partnerships with ISVs, system integrators, technology partners, and platform providers building conversational and agentic AI solutions. Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ 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: 15+ years of product management, product strategy, business development, or related experience in enterprise technology. Demonstrated ability to drive customer adoption and business impact for developer platforms, cloud services, or AI products. Customer-facing capabilities, including experience working with senior technical and business decision makers. Ability to translate complex technical capabilities into clear customer value propositions and business scenarios. Proven ability to operate across engineering, sales, marketing, research, and partner organizations. Experience with Speech AI, including speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), speech translation, conversational AI, or real-time communication technologies. Understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, and agentic application architectures. Experience with cloud AI platforms, APIs, developer platforms, or AI infrastructure. Experience building GTM strategies and driving adoption for emerging technologies. Executive communication and storytelling skills. Track record of influencing product roadmaps through customer, market, and competitive insights.