Microsoft · 1 week ago
Principal Group Product Management, Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
10+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet. The Principal Group Product Management, Manager will lead the product management organization for Azure's open-source incubations, setting strategic direction and guiding teams through experimentation to drive innovation and value for developers.
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Responsibilities
Set the strategic direction for the incubation portfolio by helping teams identify and prioritize unmet developer needs, emerging industry opportunities, and cloud‑native trends
Guide product managers in synthesizing customer and market signals—telemetry, qualitative research, open‑source community input, and competitive analysis—to shape problem definitions and determine the most impactful opportunities to pursue
Establish clear success criteria, investment theses, and hypotheses for early‑stage incubations
Lead monthly executive reviews with the Azure CTO, ensuring decision‑makers have clarity on incubation health, customer traction, progress, and risks
Build strong alignment with engineering, design, research, field, and open‑source program management partners to ensure incubations progress effectively toward production readiness
Oversee customer engagements, including proofs‑of‑concept and early production use, ensuring customer insights drive prioritization and iteration
Cultivate strong, trust‑based relationships with open‑source communities, contributors, maintainers, and foundation partners
Represent Microsoft as a collaborative, respectful member of the open‑source ecosystem, ensuring our work aligns with community expectations and industry best practices
Support the team in contributing to community design discussions, proposals, architecture reviews, and roadmap planning
Demonstrate Microsoft’s leadership principles, fostering clarity, trust, inclusion, and resilient innovation in ambiguous problem spaces
Develop product managers’ strategic judgment, customer insight skills, and ability to drive deeply technical early‑stage work across organizational boundaries
Invest in team well‑being, talent growth, and career development; attract and retain exceptional product management talent with diverse backgrounds
Provide hands‑on technical guidance across developer tools, languages, frameworks, and cloud‑native systems to help teams make sound architectural and prioritization decisions
Apply strong analytical and communication skills to drive clarity across teams and partners and ensure incubations progress from concept to scalable reality
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
3+ years people management experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
5+ years people management experience
6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework)
8+ 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)
8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product)
5+ years experience working on in cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, or developer platforms
5+ years working on open source projects
2+ years experience ensuring teams integrate AI informed analysis into strategic planning
Company
Microsoft
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