Principal Technical Product Manager

Overview

Azure is the foundation of Microsoft’s Cloud Services and a central pillar of Microsoft’s evolving cloud sovereignty strategy. As customers face increasing demands around data residency, operational control, resilience, and transparency, Azure is evolving to meet these needs at global scale. Built on a secure by design foundation, Azure delivers world class security, compliance, and operational resilience while enabling customers to retain control over their data and operations with transparency and auditability.

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Technical Product Manager in the Cloud+AI Microsoft Specialized Clouds team. This team is responsible for deploying and operating services, including the infrastructure that supports collaboration and mission critical workloads. The work directly contributes to Microsoft’s sovereign cloud capabilities, ensuring platforms can operate independently when required while remaining aligned with the core Azure ecosystem.

In this role, you will partner closely with engineering teams. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of customers.  You will help shape systems and processes that assume zero trust by default that are scalable, repeatable sovereign capabilities. Your work will support both public sector and regulated commercial customers as Microsoft evolves its cloud architecture to meet the next generation of sovereignty expectations.

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 Technical Product Manager, your mission is to turn problems and gaps into the capabilities of tomorrow. You will be responsible for defining capabilities and partnering with engineering counterparts to deliver and operate them. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and define the product roadmap to ensure our offerings meets those needs.

As a part of a growing team, your responsibilities will include:

• Product Strategy: You will help shape our cloud roadmap by translating customer needs into scalable capabilities, tools, and processes. This role partners closely with customers and sales teams to gather signals, lead requirements workshops, and advise on solution design and deployment. As the voice of the customer, you will synthesize customer and market insights to drive clear prioritization decisions, ensuring strong return on investment and alignment with Microsoft’s strategy. You will collaborate across engineering and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet customer needs and maximize business value.
• Architecture: You will help mature the cloud architecture, identify opportunities for design optimization, and ensure our cloud is positioned to scale.
• Communications: You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining regular communications about the status of our cloud and upcoming developments. In addition, you will be able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft.
• Team Collaboration: You will pull stakeholders together to align on a shared vision, working with a talented and diverse group of PMs, Developers, and internal teams that rely on our services to be successful. You must be a great collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft. Ability to engage colleagues across a large, diverse, and distributed organization to drive decisive action that delivers results for expanding the market for Azure across international boundaries.
• Cultural Leadership: Ability and passion to lead cultural initiatives, having positive impact on team morale and fostering an environment of inclusion.

Other

• Embody our company's culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C.
• 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local [or applicable country] government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
• 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

• 8+ years of software development, product management, or technical program management with a strong track record of shipping products and services
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity
• Previous experience and success in an engineering role where you delivered cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience in planning, cross-group collaboration, communications, analytical capabilities, and attention to detail.
• Passion and proven record for execution with measurable results; focus on delivering impact.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, innovation, and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with a high degree of independence and success.
• Ability to work successfully across a complex, highly matrixed environment
• Demonstrated capability in verbal and written communications skills across a geographically dispersed audience.

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.