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Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
The Microsoft IQ team is building the unified intelligence layer for enterprise AI, bringing together organizational knowledge and context across Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, Web IQ, and partner sources so agents can discover and use trusted context wherever they run. Our goal is to make AI more useful, accurate, and relevant by enabling organizations to connect the knowledge, data, and expertise that power their business to agents and Copilot experiences.
We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
Responsibilities
- Define product strategy, customer scenarios, requirements, and roadmap for Microsoft IQ, translating a broad vision into clear product outcomes and measurable success criteria.
- Design experiences that help organizations connect, organize, discover, govern, and use business knowledge and context with AI.
- Partner across Microsoft product teams to deliver cohesive experiences spanning AI, productivity, data, and developer platforms.
- Work closely with engineering, design, and research to take customer scenarios from product definition through implementation, evaluation, and release.
- Engage directly with customers and partners to validate product direction, identify unmet needs, and translate feedback into prioritized product improvements.
- Define and use product signals, including adoption, active usage, quality, and customer outcomes, to continuously improve the product.
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
Job Requirements: Other & Additional
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/Additional Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
- 6+ 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).
- 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
- Experience defining and delivering enterprise cloud, data, AI, agent, or developer-platform products.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous customer and partner problems into clear product strategy, requirements, scenarios, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience delivering products that require collaboration across multiple engineering teams, services, platforms, and organizational boundaries.
- Understanding of modern AI and agent experiences, including areas such as knowledge, context, retrieval, APIs, identity, security, and governance.
- Experience engaging enterprise customers and partners to validate product direction and translate feedback into product improvements.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to engineering teams, customers, partners, and senior leaders.
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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.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience
- Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in product, service, or program management or software development, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market
- 6+ years of experience improving product metrics
- 6+ years of experience disrupting a market with a product, feature, or experience
- Experience defining and delivering enterprise cloud, data, AI, agent, or developer-platform products
- Experience translating ambiguous customer and partner problems into product strategy, requirements, scenarios, and measurable outcomes
- Experience delivering products across multiple engineering teams, services, platforms, and organizational boundaries
- Understanding of modern AI and agent experiences, including knowledge, context, retrieval, APIs, identity, security, and governance
- Experience engaging enterprise customers and partners to validate product direction
- Ability to communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to technical teams, customers, partners, and senior leaders
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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