Principal Product Manager

Microsoft AI Fundamentals team delivers the cutting-edge infrastructure to run Bing, Edge, MSN Feeds and copilot scenarios. The Fundamentals team (of Microsoft AI) needs a strong Product manager to lead the future of the largest distributed computing & AI platform at Microsoft.

As a Principal Product Manager at MAI, you will be responsible driving innovation and building the platform that delivers a high-quality search results and web recommendation to 100s of millions of daily active users around the world.  You will need to have a passion for innovation while still running a high-quality product for users - we are constantly experimenting and upgrading our services while we serve traffic.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with inventory and capacity management understanding the demand, supply and engineering dependencies.
• Experience successfully building and running large scale cloud/distributed compute, storage and inferencing systems and products.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience scaling challenges with open-source technologies like HDFS, Spark & Kafka.
• Experience in building and managing scalable search indices.
• Experience in UI design and building customer loving products.
• Knowledge of Containers, microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $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.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 21, 2025.

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• Deliver high quality search to Bing and Office users which can serve billions of queries a month in milliseconds.
• Do inventory and capacity management of the complex fleet of CPU and GPU running these large systems.
• Process complex AI and machine learning algorithms over petabytes of data including deep neural networks.
• Make personalized News, Web, image, and video recommendations to millions of users, globally.
• Empower hundreds of scientists to quickly and safely experiment and continually improve the product.
• Evolve multi-tenant platforms for infra for Storage & Inferencing such as ObjectStore, HDFS, Spark and Kafka for Big Data and NRT processing.