Product Manager, CoreAI

Overview

Microsoft CoreAI is building the platforms, tools, and experiences that are shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Our teams work across product, engineering, design, research, and data science to develop trusted AI solutions that empower people and organizations around the world.

As a Product Manager in CoreAI, you will help define product vision and strategy by developing a deep understanding of customer needs, product performance, and the competitive market. You will identify short- and long-term investment opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and contribute to the product roadmap.

In this role, you will partner closely with Engineering, Design, Research, Data Science, and other cross-functional teams to define features, establish success criteria, and deliver meaningful product experiences. You will use customer insights, product data, and market signals to prioritize opportunities and help guide products and features from concept through launch and iteration.

At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress across people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that helps shape what is next for everyone.

This role is targeting a Summer 2027 Start.

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Responsibilities

• Identifies customers' unmet or unknown needs and market opportunities for the development or enhancement of a product, service, feature, or experience through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Translates customer problems and insights into product requirements, prototypes, features, or experiences, using customer feedback, experimentation, telemetry, and product data to evaluate outcomes and inform product decisions.
• Develops an understanding of customers, competitors, and market trends to help inform product vision, strategy, and investment priorities.
• Defines and tracks objectives, Key Results, success criteria, and product performance metrics.
• Partners with Engineering and other stakeholders to identify data and telemetry requirements needed to evaluate product performance and customer impact.
• Determines which features or experiences to prioritize in the product roadmap by evaluating customer needs, business goals, dependencies, tradeoffs, and resource requirements.
• Collaborates with Design, Engineering, Research, and other partners to iterate on product and experience designs.
• Participates in product, user experience, system, and data design reviews to help ensure solutions meet customer needs, usability expectations, accessibility standards, and responsible AI principles.
• Collaborates with Product Marketing, Business Planning, Engineering, and other partners to define release criteria and support product adoption, customer acquisition, and usage.
• Monitors product progress, communicates risks and insights, and maintains strong customer feedback loops throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Embodies Microsoft's culture and values.

Qualifications

• Required/minimum qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development or equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
• 1+ year(s) experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

Product Management IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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