Overview

Microsoft Foundry is the platform that empowers developers to build, deploy, and scale AIpowered applications and agents across Microsoft’s ecosystem. As part of the CoreAI organization, Foundry brings together Azure AI, orchestration patterns, agent tooling, data connectivity, and the emerging stack that transforms how applications are created.

As a Principal Product Manager on the Foundry team, you will shape the strategy and roadmap for foundational developer and AI capabilities that serve millions of developers globally. You will partner closely with engineering, design, and research to define experiences that help teams modernize legacy applications, build agentic workflows, and leverage state-of-the-art LLMs and SLMs.

This role requires deep technical curiosity, strong customer empathy, and the ability to drive clarity and alignment across complex engineering environments. You will contribute to Microsoft’s mission to empower every developer and organization to do more with AI.

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy & Vision:

• Define and evolve the longterm vision for the Foundry platform, including agent frameworks, orchestration capabilities, and developer tooling used across CoreAI products.

• Translate complex enterprise and developer requirements into clear product roadmaps and prioritized investment plans.

• Identify market opportunities and validate product direction through research, experimentation, and customer insights.

Customer Engagement & Insights:

• Engage directly with strategic AI customers to deeply understand their application modernizations, agent use cases, and infrastructure requirements.

• Synthesize customer feedback into actionable insights that inform backlog prioritization and ongoing product improvements. campusbuilding.com

Execution & Cross Functional Leadership:

• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure platform features.

• Lead execution of multiquarter initiatives, ensuring clarity on acceptance criteria, technical dependencies, and timelines.

• Partner with design, research, marketing, and PM peers across Azure AI, GitHub, and broader CoreAI to craft worldclass developer experiences.

Technical & AI Platform Responsibilities:

• Drive capabilities for agenttoagent interactions, skill orchestration, prompt management, AI workflow tooling, and hybrid cloud/local inference patterns.

• Influence the platform infrastructure underpinning Foundry, ensuring that developer scenarios—from app migration to AIfirst application creation—are firstclass and intuitive.

Post Launch Product Management:

• Measure product performance, collect feedback, and iterate quickly to optimize reliability, usability, and developer satisfaction.

• Maintain clear, executiveready insights on product performance and strategic direction.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years of product management, program management, or software development experience, OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading technical product areas from concept through launch.

• Experience building developer platforms, cloud services, AI orchestration frameworks, or agentcentric architectures.

• Demonstrated ability to partner across engineering, design, research, and business teams.

• Ability to analyze complex technical and business requirements and drive alignment across stakeholders.

• Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check requirements.

• Background working with enterprise customers on technical adoption or migration efforts.

• Experience driving product strategy in global or complex markets.

• Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex technical concepts for executive audiences.

About Microsoft Core

AI & Foundry:

CoreAI is responsible for the foundational AI capabilities that power Microsoft’s products, services, and developer ecosystem. Foundry is the CoreAI developer platform: a unified environment for agents, AI workflows, and next-generation application development. By joining the Foundry PM team, you will be at the center of Microsoft’s transformation toward AIpowered enterprise software.

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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.