Principal Product Manager - CoreAI

Overview

Microsoft's Foundry Agent Service is the platform where developers and enterprises architect, debug, and deploy intelligent agents. The team bridges code-first development and cloud-native capabilities such as evaluations, observability, memory, tools, security, and governance while unifying experiences across GitHub, Visual Studio Code, and Azure. You will join a team shaping how organizations build reliable agents at enterprise scale.

In this Principal Product Manager - CoreAI leadership role, you will define strategy and drive execution across high-impact Foundry Agent Service opportunities rather than owning a narrowly preassigned feature. You will apply technical judgment and hands-on product understanding to connect developer workflows, cloud platform capabilities, and enterprise requirements. The role offers opportunities to shape an emerging agent platform, influence teams across Microsoft, and deliver measurable customer outcomes from strategy through execution.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision, strategy, and multi-horizon roadmaps for major Foundry Agent Service opportunities, balancing developer ergonomics, enterprise requirements, and platform coherence.

• Translate complex agent patterns and evolving customer needs into clear product bets, requirements, sequencing, and measurable success criteria.

• Lead products from discovery through launch and iteration, partnering closely with engineering and design while using telemetry and customer evidence to guide decisions.

• Engage enterprise customers and internal adopters to identify friction and drive improvements in reliability, security, governance, scalability, and developer experience.

• Influence aligned execution across Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365, CoreAI, and other partner teams without relying on direct authority.

• Build agents hands-on and maintain current understanding of agent frameworks, code-to-cloud workflows, evaluations, observability, memory, tools, and enterprise controls.

• Communicate strategy, tradeoffs, progress, and outcomes to engineering teams, business leaders, and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field AND 10+ years experience in product/program management or technical product management OR Master's Degree in a relevant field AND 8+ years experience in product/program management or technical product management.

• 5+ years experience shipping developer platforms, cloud services, enterprise software, or AI/machine-learning products.

• 3+ years experience leading cross-team product strategy and execution for technically complex products or platforms.

• Experience with large language models, agent frameworks, prompt engineering, evaluations, observability, memory systems, or agentic workflows.

• Experience shipping enterprise-grade software with security, compliance, governance, reliability, and scalability requirements.

• Experience building developer-facing APIs, SDKs, command-line tools, or integrated development experiences.

• Experience defining success metrics, using telemetry and customer research, and adjusting product investments based on evidence.

• Experience communicating technical product strategy and tradeoffs to engineering teams and executive stakeholders across multiple organizations.

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)