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Principal Product Manager

Microsoft · Mountain View, CA, US; Redmond, WA, US · On-site

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About the role

Set the strategy for your area and make the calls on scope and sequencing. You will write the vision and plans and make sure everyone building against them understands what they are and why they matter. Build a first-hand understanding of who you are building for and what is genuinely hard in their day. You will stay close to customer conversations, feedback, and telemetry every week, and be able to state the problem you are solving in plain language.

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Set the strategy for your area and make the calls on scope and sequencing. You will write the vision and plans and make sure everyone building against them understands what they are and why they matter. Build a first-hand understanding of who you are building for and what is genuinely hard in their day. You will stay close to customer conversations, feedback, and telemetry every week, and be able to state the problem you are solving in plain language. Part of the craft is telling the difference between a problem that is interesting and one urgent enough that someone will change how they work. Turn product vision into a roadmap and product requirements. You will write the framing memos and specifications that let the team move fast, prioritize the backlog, and adapt as evidence arrives. Frame a hypothesis before the work starts, instrument what ships, and let the result change the plan. Your area should get measurably better week over week, and you should be able to say by how much. You will design the evaluation approach that reflects what the product should do for a customer, covering helpfulness, accuracy, safety, and voice, and partner with engineering and data & applied...

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