Principal Product Manager

Overview

In the Microsoft Discovery and Quantum team, our focus is on developing new growth opportunities for Microsoft. By bringing together all the best technology and AI from across Microsoft alongside our own inventions, we enable researchers to revolutionize the scientific method, speeding up their work towards dependable, superior results. We have a bold mission to accelerate scientific discovery for our entire planet and are looking for candidates to join us in crafting the next winning products for Microsoft.

As a Principal Product Manager in the Microsoft Discovery team, you will play an integral role in defining and executing a new vision for AI-driven science platform development. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, expand domain impact, and deliver at a startup pace. This is a Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA based position, with an expectation that you will be available to collaborate in person on campus.

This role will focus on Microsoft Discovery's alliances and partnerships - including strategy and engagements across academic and research institutions, industry partners, and independent software vendors (ISV). You will combine product leadership with hands-on development to help academic, research, and ISV partners turn scientific use cases into working solutions

If you have a passion for technology, innovation, and making a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you to jump in. You should have experience in strategy, product management, and cross-functional execution. Experience with enterprise products and driving adoption would be a plus. Your expertise in new products, verticals, and taking something from inception to scale will be essential in setting the industry standard. We are building a team of AI native Full Stack Builders, and operate at startup pace.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• As a Principal Product Manager with an entrepreneurial mindset, you will play an integral role in defining and executing a new vision for AI-driven science platform development. In this role, you will work with cross-functional teams of product managers, engineers, designers, scientists, and researchers to build new product experiences, shape underlying AI capabilities that support these experiences, and foster a culture of innovation and high-craft product making.

• Help define and drive Microsoft Discovery's academic and research strategy, including identifying priority research scenarios, building strategic relationships, and defining engagement plans and measures of success.

• Support and expand ongoing engagements with academic institutions and research and innovation partners, aligning on shared goals, coordinating execution, and removing barriers to adoption.

• Personally implement proof-of-concept solutions, sample tools, connectors and AI agents that demonstrate partner scenarios and help partners get started with Microsoft Discovery. Turn successful approaches into reusable examples and technical guidance.

• Drive ISV tool onboarding into Microsoft Discovery, working hands-on with partner developers an,d internal engineering teams to prototype integrations, troubleshoot technical issues, and validate end-to-end scientific workflows.

• You will scale Product Marketing teams by building marketing and roll-out plans, as well as leading the creation of customer support plans. You'll also take advantage of major opportunities to promote the feature areas you worked on and present at large events.

• As an expert, you will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs in order to improve product development in multiple areas. You'll also identify features to deprecate, manage customer communities, and build trust with targeted customers across sectors.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelors Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/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 qualifications

• Bachelors Degree AND 10+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management OR software development

• OR equivalent experience.

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

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

• 4+ years' experience shipping production-ready code in a collaborative process

• Experience as a full stack builder

• Experience developing with the latest AI-assisted development tools and systems

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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.