Principal Product Manager

Overview

The Azure Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure Products (ASAP) organization is responsible for delivering the infrastructure foundation powering the next generation of AI. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive end-to-end capacity delivery across Microsoft's rapidly growing AI infrastructure portfolio, including strategic NeoCloud partnerships and large-scale GPU deployments.

This role sits at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, engineering execution, product strategy, and operational excellence. You will own complex infrastructure programs from planning and contract commitments through customer-ready capacity delivery, collaborating across engineering, supply chain, datacenter operations, networking, finance, and strategic partners.

The Principal Product Manager combines deep technical curiosity with rigor. They thrive in ambiguity, challenge conventional thinking, identify opportunities for transformation, and drive measurable business impact through both operational excellence and product innovation. In addition to delivering infrastructure at scale, this role will help shape the next generation of intelligent buildout systems by applying automation, AI, and agentic workflows to improve predictability, optimize human effort, and accelerate Dock-to-Live execution.

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

Own, Define, and drive the end-to-end strategy and execution for large-scale GPU and AI cluster buildouts, from capacity planning and infrastructure readiness through deployment, validation, and production handoff. Communicate program strategy, roadmap, progress, risk, tradeoffs, and recovery plans to senior Microsoft leaders and customer stakeholders through concise, data-driven narratives.

Lead delivery of supercomputer-class infrastructure for strategic customers, translating business and customer requirements into infrastructure plans, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.

Partner with hardware and software engineering, capacity planning, supply chain, data center infrastructure, networking, operations, finance, and customer-facing teams to predictably deliver strategic capacity commitments.

Develop scalable processes, automation, telemetry, and deployment mechanisms that improve delivery predictability, deployment quality, and time to production.

Partner with senior leaders to frame complex technical and business tradeoffs, establish clear decision points, and drive timely resolution of critical issues.

Establish and maintain integrated execution plans, risk management mechanisms, milestone tracking, and operational review cadences.

Identify delivery bottlenecks, drive issue resolution, and accelerate execution across organizational boundaries.

Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation, and agentic workflows to infrastructure delivery processes.

Challenge existing assumptions and workflows, using data and customer outcomes to redefine how work gets done.

Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities to deliver outcomes that support Microsoft’s long-term AI infrastructure strategy. Communicate complex technical and business issues clearly to executive audiences.

• Act as a force multiplier for the organization by identifying opportunities others miss and driving durable solutions.

Required 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 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).
• 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, infrastructure engineering, or related technical leadership roles.
• 1+ years experience building or managing large-scale cloud, HPC, GPU, AI, or datacenter infrastructure deployments.
• Designing or implementing automation, AI-powered systems, agentic workflows, or operational intelligence platforms.
• Leading initiatives that significantly reduced operational toil, improved cycle time, or increased execution predictability.
• Leading large-scale, cross-functional programs involving multiple organizations and executive stakeholders.
• Working with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, datacenter technologies, networking, AI infrastructure, or related technical domains.

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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.

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