Principal Product Manager, AI
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Job Description
As a Principal Product Manager, AI at Microsoft AI, you'll work at the intersection of product and research, focusing on the language models powering Microsoft Copilot. Responsibilities include identifying and prioritizing language model issues, creating data collection tasks, building prototypes, engineering prompts, managing projects with researchers and engineers, and deploying A/B tests. You'll ensure Copilot's messages are high-quality, factual, and safe. The role demands a blend of technical skills and strong people management abilities, requiring experience in building ML-powered products and shipping consumer-facing products. The ideal candidate possesses strong initiative and a passion for creating world-class consumer experiences.
Must have:
- 8+ years in product/project management or software development
- 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary projects
- Experience building ML-powered products
- Prioritizing language model issues and working with researchers
- Creating data collection tasks and language model prototypes
Good to have:
- Experience shipping consumer-facing products
- Technical depth in software development, data science, and machine learning
- Experience using and applying Large Language Models
3 skills required
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OverviewAs Microsoft AI we are pushing the boundaries of technology.
We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives. A small, friendly, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. We run lean, obsess about users, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.
As an AI Product Manager, you will work at the nexus of product and research. Your products are the language models that power Microsoft Copilot. You will be responsible for balancing product needs with research priorities, ensuring that Copilot's messages are high quality, factual and safe. You will also be responsible for prioritizing new features and research, working closely with AI researchers to build and execute project plans. We’re looking for someone with an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness, in addition to being highly effective. The right candidate takes the initiative and enjoys building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment.
Our newly formed organization, Microsoft AI (MAI), focuses on Copilot and other consumer AI products and research. We combine world-class AI research together with top notch design and product craft. The wider team is responsible for Copilot, Bing, Edge, and generative AI research, while the Mobile Engineering team is responsible for leading and building the mobile experience of Copilot on iOS and Android, collaborating closely with our Product Management, Design and AI Research teams. This role requires a balance of technical skills and effective people management skills.
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.
By applying to this U.S. Mountain View, CA OR Redmond, WA position, you are required to be local to the San Francisco area OR Seattle area and in office 3 days a week
Responsibilities
- Identifying and prioritizing language model issues and working with researchers to find a path to resolution.
- Creating novel data collection tasks for taskers to evaluate language models and to collect training data for fine-tuning.
- Creating language model prototypes to prove out new feature directions and scope projects.
- Engineering prompts to teach language models how to behave across a wide range of scenarios.
- Working closely with researchers and engineers to define and manage engineering and research projects.
- Deploying and tracking AB model experiments in production.
- Embody our and .
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8 years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary projects, defining requirements, developing project plans and working with multi-disciplinary teams to execute them.
- Experience in building ML-powered products.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 10 years of experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 5 years of experience shipping consumer-facing products. You’ve brought products to market, collected user feedback, defined success metrics and iteratively improved products.
- Technical depth in software development, data science and machine learning. While you are not expected to write code on the critical path, you’re able to build zero-to-one prototypes, reason over large amounts of data, and speak the language of the engineers and researchers you work with.
- Experience using and applying Large Language Models. LLMs will be your clay – you should know how to prompt engineer them, how to evaluate them, and understand they are tuned.
$137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.
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Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
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