Overview
We have an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the software that people use most: the browser. Every day, billions of people open a browser because they want something. They want to buy something, learn something, get something done, figure something out. The browser is where intent becomes action.
For decades, that journey has been mostly unchanged: you search, you click, you read, you navigate. AI changes the fundamental equation. The distance between what someone wants and what they actually accomplish can shrink dramatically — and the browser is where that happens for billions of people.
We're looking for a Principal Product Manager who sees that opportunity clearly and has the conviction and the hands to go build it. Someone who invents on behalf of customers rather than waiting to be told what they want. Someone who thinks about AI not just as a set of features to add, but as the means by which we rethink the whole product on behalf of the people who use it every day. The role is yours to define. The surface area is massive. The moment is now.
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.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- Own the AI-native product strategy for Microsoft Edge, defining how AI collapses the distance between what people want and what they can accomplish — across research, tasks, decisions, and everything else people bring to their browser.
- Invent on behalf of billions of users: form solid, well-reasoned convictions about what people need before they can articulate it themselves, and build toward that vision.
- Turn frontier AI capabilities into experiences customers actually want to use, not demos that impress in a conference room and disappear six months later.
- Run fast, hypothesis-driven experimentation cycles across new AI interaction patterns and UI flows; let real usage data sharpen your convictions.
- Partner with research teams to identify model advances with real customer value and move them from research to shipped product.
- Work with data science and growth teams to ensure AI-powered features reach and retain the users who need them most.
- Set clear direction in ambiguous spaces, make tradeoffs visible to leadership, and drive alignment across partner teams.
- Operate as a senior IC: coach PMs on adjacent workstreams, unblock critical path items, and hold a high bar for what "done" means.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
5+ years shipping consumer products at meaningful scale.
3+ years building products with large language models, agentic AI, or similar frontier AI technologies.
You have built a product from 0 to launch with your own hands. Not contributed to someone else's initiative — owned it, defined the scope, recruited the help, made the calls, and shipped it.
A track record of turning complex, ambiguous technical capabilities into products customers love and return to.
Ability to lead and align multiple teams through long, cross-functional delivery cycles.
Solid product intuition and the conviction to act on it, even when the data is incomplete.
Familiarity with prompting patterns, RAG, agentic frameworks, or eval-based quality measurement.
Experience with browser technologies, web platform, or Chromium-based products.
A genuine interest in emerging AI research and a habit of thinking beyond established playbooks.
Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams.
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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.
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