Principal PM Manager

Microsoft's Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP's vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries.

The Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization within CSCP lies at the heart of the effort to build the next generation Cloud. We're an innovative and collaborative team of product and program managers transforming Microsoft's Cloud and Devices Supply Chains. We design and build industry-leading systems, tools, and processes, embedding AI end to end for cutting-edge supply chain solutions.

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.

#CSCP #CSCPJobs

This leader will lead a team of product managers to drive key platforms that underpins the success of our cloud infrastructure:

• AI based Data Platform that provides, curated, high-quality, governed data, in an industry standard format, to enable agentic AI capabilities to power the growing Microsoft AI infrastructure.
• AI native Collaboration Platform: This leader will be pivotal to drive the strategy and execution of transforming the way we collaborate with our external partners, suppliers and SI's in an agentic world.

Strategic Leadership

• Set the strategic direction for the data and collaboration group by helping teams identify and prioritize unmet customer needs, emerging industry opportunities, and cloud and AI native trends.
• Guide product managers in synthesizing customer and market signals-telemetry, qualitative research and competitive analysis-to shape problem definitions and determine the most impactful path to pursue.
• Establish clear business goals, successful metrics and measurement criteria.

Execution & Cross Functional Alignment

• Lead regular reviews (cross org/executive), ensuring decisionmakers have clarity on roadmaps, program status, progress, and risks.
• Build strong alignment with engineering, design, research, field, and business partners to ensure platforms progress effectively toward production readiness.
• Oversee customer engagements, including proofs of concept and early production use, ensuring customer insights drive prioritization and iteration.

People Leadership (Model, Coach, Care)

• Model: Demonstrate Microsoft's leadership principles, fostering clarity, trust, inclusion, and resilient innovation in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Coach: Develop product managers' strategic judgment, customer insight skills, and ability to drive deeply technical early stage work across organizational boundaries.
• Care: Invest in team well being, talent growth, and career development; attract and retain exceptional product management talent with diverse backgrounds.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) people management experience.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 5+ years experience working on in cloud native technologies, distributed systems, or developer platforms.
• 5+ years experience building data applications in supply chain domains.

Product Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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.

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.