Principal Product Manager

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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 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 age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. ​

​​We are seeking a product manager to lead internal workload enablement efforts across Fabric's ecosystem. In this high-impact individual contributor role, you will partner closely with internal product teams to ensure their workloads are seamlessly supported by the core data platform. You'll identify platform gaps, define cross-cutting requirements, and drive platform level investments that enable consistent integration across teams. The ideal candidate combines strong product thinking, technical depth, and stakeholder management skills to accelerate adoption and enable consistency.

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We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

• ​Identify gaps in the Azure Data Platform that impact internal workload adoption, and define cross-cutting product requirements to drive platform consistency and reliability.
• Lead the design and prioritization of composable artifacts and infrastructure abstractions that reduce integration effort for first-party engineering teams.
• Partner closely with internal workloads to deeply understand onboarding challenges and align platform capabilities with real-world usage.
• Drive roadmap investments that improve scalability, compliance, and performance while promoting consistent architectural patterns across the platform.​ 

Embody our culture and values 

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience working cross functionally with multiple engineering functions

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 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/Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.​

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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

• Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 20, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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