# Principal Product Manager

OverviewOverview The Microsoft 365 Core Performance & Scale team is hiring a Principal Product Manager to help build the intelligent productivity platform and deliver high-performance experiences at global scale. The team works across Microsoft 365 and Copilot to improve latency, scalability, reliability, resource efficiency of operating one of the world’s largest productivity platforms. This is a broad platform role for a product leader who is comfortable with open-ended, high-impact problems. The work spans performance strategy, strategic efficiency, telemetry and cost optimization, infrastructure demand reduction, benchmarking, platform health, and AI-powered engineering systems. The role will help determine where Microsoft should optimize software, evolve architecture, change operating models, or make platform investments to support continued growth. Technical and product decisions can have significant customer impact. The right candidate will combine strong product judgment, technical depth, data fluency, customer empathy, and the ability to make clear decisions under uncertainty. This is an AI-first product management role. You will use agents, automation, AIOps, AI-driven an

- **Id**: 1972462
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-product-manager-16>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-30T14:10:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T08:54:22Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 40
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9714
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Console Games, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 471
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.597
- **Repost share**: 0.04
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AIOps** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 40

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-06T19:45:59Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-19T04:26:38Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-20T00:15:10Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-25T21:59:42Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-05T00:18:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.368
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 40
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, evergreen, wave, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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