Overview
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
At Microsoft, we’re reimagining Windows as the best place for developers to build and grow their applications—and the Windows Platform & Developer Experience team sits at the heart of that mission.
Our work is simple in ambition but deep in impact: make developers successful on Windows. That means removing friction from the end to end app development journey, helping teams ship faster with confidence, and ensuring applications built on Windows are performant, reliable, and delightful for millions of users.‑to‑end app development journey, helping teams ship faster with confidence, and ensuring applications built on Windows are performant, reliable, and delightful for millions of users.
You’ll work on some of the most meaningful challenges in the Windows ecosystem - modernizing the app platform, strengthening core developer fundamentals, and enabling developers to reach users seamlessly across native, hybrid, and cross‑platform technologies. We meet developers where they already are by supporting familiar frameworks and workflows, while also unlocking experiences that are uniquely powerful on Windows through deep OS integration and differentiated capabilities.
As Windows evolves toward more intelligent, agent‑driven experiences, this team plays a critical role in shaping the platform primitives, APIs, and tooling that developers rely on. Your work will directly influence how quickly developers can innovate, how confidently they can ship, and how high the quality bar is for apps across the Windows ecosystem. If you’re excited about building platforms at scale, empowering developers, and shaping the future of Windows, this is the team where your impact will be felt every day.
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.
Responsibilities
- Own a customer problem area within WPD, from problem definition and PRD/roadmap to execution with engineering and launch/landing with customers and field.
- Translate customer needs into platform features and guidance, partnering across product groups and stakeholders.
- Drive strategic partnerships to align shared goals, unlock new scenarios, and amplify impact.
- Influence technical architecture and long-term platform strategy in collaboration with engineering and applied science.
- Represent the voice of the customer and developer to ensure the platform is intuitive, powerful, and future-ready.
- Defining the Product Vision for User signals on Windows and own the end-to-end strategy for how Windows captures, reasons over, and surfaces user context to power Copilot, AI agents, and intelligent experiences. Drive the roadmap from concept through shipping, aligning engineering, design, and leadership across Windows and M365.
- Drive Cross-Org Platform Adoption & Partner Success — Be the strategic PM who builds trust with 1P app teams and 3P developers to adopt context platform APIs. Define the developer contract, success metrics, and feedback loops — turning a platform capability into ecosystem-wide impact.
- Navigate Ambiguity at the AI × OS Intersection — Lead in a space where the playbook is still being written. Make high-judgment trade-offs across privacy, performance, and intelligence — shaping how on-device models (NPU/GPU) on Copilot+ PCs leverage user context responsibly at scale.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development.
- OR equivalent experience.
Experience influencing technical architecture and aligning cross-functional teams on complex systems.
Proven success designing developer-facing APIs and extensibility models.
Deep experience in cross-functional environments and influencing outcomes across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.
Executive communication skills: connect product investments to customer needs and business outcomes.
Passion for building not just great products, but also great team culture—collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement. Ability to balance big-picture.
Vision with day-to-day execution.
Exceptional skills in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, design, marketing, research, and business disciplines.
**Other Requirements: **Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- AI acumen: Knowledge of language models, training, evals, RAG, grounding, and on‑device constraints (NPU, latency, power).
- Familiarity with Windows subsystems and app development.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about **requesting accommodations.**