Microsoft · 12 hours ago
Senior Product Manager - Excel Core AI
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Product Manager to shape the core reasoning of agentic Excel experiences. The role involves improving Excel's capabilities through AI and machine learning, focusing on user workflows and product quality.
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Responsibilities
Identify and prioritize agent reasoning and model capability opportunities to improve agentic Excel capabilities
Define the quality bar for agent reasoning, making informed tradeoffs across capability, latency, cost, and reliability
Translate real user workflows and mental models into reasoning requirements and evaluation criteria
Define success metrics and evaluation frameworks to measure reasoning quality, correctness, and robustness
Design data collection and labeling tasks to evaluate models and generate training data for fine-tuning and alignment
Prototype and validate new agent behaviors, reasoning patterns, and feature directions
Develop and iterate on prompts and policies to guide consistent, high-quality model behavior across scenarios
Deploy, monitor, and analyze A/B experiments for model and reasoning changes in production
Incorporate user feedback and telemetry to continuously improve model behavior and reliability
Collaborate cross-functionally with research, applied ML, data, infrastructure, and product teams
Advance the AI frontier responsibly while embodying Microsoft’s culture and values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework)
4+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn)
4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product)
3+ years of experience leading ambiguous product areas, defining requirements, setting direction, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes
2+ years of experience building or shipping ML-powered or LLM-powered products
Hands-on experience working with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI), embeddings, vector databases, and tool-based systems
Hands-on experience with prompt design, context management, and model evaluation techniques
Demonstrated analytical and problem‑solving ability, with the capacity to reason about complex systems and diverse user workflows
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with engineering, research, and data partners
Experience translating user intent and behavior into product strategy, and partnering closely with engineering and ML teams to deliver scalable, personalized experiences
1+ years of hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications, including familiarity with agent and orchestration frameworks, tool use, model evaluation, and efficiency optimization
Demonstrated technical depth in software development, data science, or machine learning, with the ability to reason over complex systems and large datasets
Comfort defining and executing zero-to-one prototypes to validate ideas and inform product direction, even when not writing production code
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Company
Microsoft
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