Principal Product Manager

Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

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 Microsoft Fabric, the Business Intelligence team powers enterprise reporting and visualization through Power BI. As a core workload of Fabric, Power BI serves as the primary interface for users to explore data, generate insights, and make decisions. The team continues to evolve BI from reporting to a more integrated, insight-driven experience that connects seamlessly with the rest of the Fabric platform.

The Power BI Core AI team is hiring a Principal Product manager to help shape how people use AI to explore data, build analytical experiences, and act on insights. Our team develops AI capabilities across Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, including Fabric apps, Copilot tooling, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that enable AI assistants and agents to interact with Power BI reports and analytical models. This role brings together applied AI, analytics, and platform engineering to turn emerging technologies into reliable, intuitive experiences for customers, with a focus on quality, security, and enterprise readiness.

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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deliver AI capabilities across Power BI and Microsoft Fabric that help customers explore data, create analytical experiences, and act on insights.
• Develop MCP tools and integrations that enable AI assistants and agents to discover and interact with Power BI reports and semantic models while respecting customer permissions and governance.
• Build and improve Copilot tooling and workflows that make AI assistance useful, understandable, and grounded in customers’ analytical context.
• Establish evaluations and use customer feedback, telemetry, and experimentation to improve AI quality, reliability, performance, and usability.
• Partner with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineering teams to translate customer needs into technical designs and deliver capabilities from prototype through production.
• Contribute to reusable architecture and engineering practices that support secure, maintainable AI capabilities across the Power BI and Fabric ecosystem.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.

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 Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 5+ 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).
• 5+ 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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Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.