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The Agent Tools & Lifecycle team is building a coherent authoring and lifecycle experience that lets information workers, makers, developers, partners, and administrators move from an idea to a trusted production solution without fragmented tools or rework. You will work across Microsoft 365 Copilot and partner organizations to create a unified product strategy for authoring, publishing, evaluation, observability, governance, and operations.\nAs a Principal Product Manager- Agent Tools and Lifecycle, you will own the multi-year strategy and cross-organizational execution for information-worker and maker authoring tools and lifecycle management for Agents used by Autopilots and Workflows. You will leverage AI and customer and market signals to identify opportunities across divisional boundaries; translate ambiguous needs into durable product and platform direction; guide roadmap and investment prioritization; and align executives, engineering, design, marketing, and partner teams on measurable outcomes. This opportunity will allow you to shape an AI-first platform area for millions of customers, deepen your expertise in agentic systems and enterprise governance, and lead complex product transitions through influence at organizational scale.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nDefine and evangelize the long-term vision, strategy, investment framework, and roadmap for agent, autopilot, and workflow authoring and lifecycle experiences across divisional boundaries.\nSynthesize customer research, telemetry, market intelligence, competitive analysis, and AI-assisted insights to identify unmet needs, validate product-market fit, prioritize opportunities, and guide resource tradeoffs.\nCreate a coherent progression across information-worker, maker, and developer entry points so solutions can move from lightweight creation to trusted, governed, enterprise-scale deployment without fragmentation or rework.\nDrive shared lifecycle capabilities across Copilot, Copilot Studio, Agent Builder, Power Automate, and partner surfaces. This includes specification, validation, publishing, distribution, evaluation, observability, versioning, governance, operations, and supportability.\nPartner with teams across Microsoft to define platform contracts, integration patterns, ownership boundaries, dependencies, release criteria, and shared success measures.\nLead difficult product and architecture decisions with senior stakeholders, balancing customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, quality, security, privacy, responsible AI, compliance, reliability, cost, and time to market.\nDefine OKRs, AI quality measures, experimentation and learning loops; use evidence to improve adoption, engagement, retention, reliability, and business outcomes, and to change course or deprecate capabilities when warranted. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\n6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).\n8+ 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).\n8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).\nRole-specific experience valued: agentic AI and AI prototyping; workflow automation; low-code/no-code and developer authoring; product lifecycle and specifications; evaluation, experimentation, observability, governance, identity, security, and enterprise platform operations; executive storytelling, negotiation, product evangelism, and cross-functional leadership. \nProduct Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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