Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager

The PowerPoint Product Group builds an app that millions of people open every day to create, collaborate and present their ideas to their audiences. We are in the middle of the biggest transformation in our history: rebuilding PowerPoint and storytelling for the AI and agentic era to empower everyone to drive real change.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to own a strategic portfolio within the PowerPoint product. You will decide what gets built and why, define what quality means for your area, and stay accountable for whether customers love what ships. This is a product builder’s job, with you being directly involved in creating prototypes, driving customer conversations, evaluating what we are planning to ship, and delivering the best experience to our users.

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

• Set the strategy for your area and make the calls on scope and sequencing. You will write the vision and plans and make sure everyone building against them understands what they are and why they matter.
• Build a first-hand understanding of who you are building for and what is genuinely hard in their day. You will stay close to customer conversations, feedback, and telemetry every week, and be able to state the problem you are solving in plain language. Part of the craft is telling the difference between a problem that is interesting and one urgent enough that someone will change how they work.
• Turn product vision into a roadmap and product requirements. You will write the framing memos and specifications that let the team move fast, prioritize the backlog, and adapt as evidence arrives.
• Frame a hypothesis before the work starts, instrument what ships, and let the result change the plan. Your area should get measurably better week over week, and you should be able to say by how much.
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