Principal Product Manager

Job Description

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products in our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the era of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the data integration team builds data gravity on the Microsoft Cloud. Massive volumes of data are generated – not just from transactional systems of record, but also from the world around us. Our data integration products – Azure Data Factory and Power Query make it easy for customers to bring in, clean, shape, and join data, to extract intelligence. The Data Integration team is hiring a Principal Product Manager. In this role you will shape and define data integration capabilities and experiences. As part of the role, you will work with customers, partners and community closely, and use feedback to drive product improvements.

Job Responsibility

Analysis of Customer and Market Signals - Leads cross-team problem-solving with Microsoft ecosystem insights. Guides use of AI analysis to spot trends, assess market fit, and validate opportunities. Collaborates with stakeholders to refine features and address issues. Anticipates needs, gathers feedback, and shares insights. Manages partnerships, contract negotiations, and leverages AI for secure, improved customer insights and adoption
Go To Market - Promotes features to stakeholders and partners, supports content creation, and educates on new offerings. Works with marketing and engineering to set release criteria and develop strategies for customer acquisition. Manages product rollouts and creates support plans
Product/Service Definition - Identifies investment opportunities, sets roadmaps, tracks metrics, and ensures product alignment with business goals. Defines vision and strategy, writes product strategy documents, and builds consensus for AI-first product direction
Product/Service Development - Leads feature definition, design collaboration, and AI-driven concept development. Ensures usability, accessibility, security, and gathers feedback. Owns the roadmap, manages priorities, adapts to customer needs, and ensures ethical AI standards
Product/Service Performance - Collects and analyzes KPIs, sets metrics for AI features, and acts to improve products. Manages feature deprecation and transitions. Builds customer relationships and gathers feedback for ongoing improvements

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
Experience with analytics and data integration products
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience
4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework)
6+ 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)
6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product)

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