Senior Product Manager

Are you ready to shape the future of AI, PC performance, power efficiency, and silicon innovation? The Windows & Devices (W+D) organization is at the forefront of transforming the Windows ecosystem for the AI era-and we are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the next generation of AI fundamentals that make Windows the most performant, energyefficient, reliable, and trustworthy AI platform in the world.

As a Senior Product Manager, you'll sit at the strategic intersection of AI, silicon, and system fundamentals. You will define the fundamentals strategy for AI workloads across diverse hardware configurations, partner deeply with engineering and silicon teams, and build the tools, telemetry, and data pipelines that illuminate model behavior, system impact, and user experience. Your work will directly influence how AI experiences are built, measured, optimized, and delivered at global scale.

This Senior Product Manager role is part of the Windows Fundamentals team-whose mission is to uphold a high, principled bar for Windows quality and to ensure that every marquee experience ships with exceptional performance, efficiency, and reliability. We take a datadriven approach to product truth, invest in optics that reveal regressions before customers feel them, and drive crosscompany partnerships that keep Windows competitive and bestinclass. You'll help us continue this legacy by shaping the AI fundamentals that power the future of Windows across OEMs, IHVs, and the broader ecosystem.

• Strategic leadership: You will work with the team and peers to define priorities for investment, strategies for product improvement, delivering at scale, and investing in systems and tools to improve fundamentals.
• Partner engagement: You will be engaging deeply with partners to achieve our shared goals.
• Technical depth: Our problem space is often deeply technical. You don't have to be a perf/power/silicon expert today, but you should have an affinity for technical challenges and diving deep.
• Data-driven: Skilled at using data to draw insights, answer hard questions, and guide actions.
• Communicationand influence: Able to conduct insightful conversations with senior business and technical decision makers inside and outside Microsoft. Communicate complex ideas to others in a clear, effective, and motivating manner.
• Collaboration: Generous collaborator, able to work effectively across broad teams and influence stakeholders of all levels and of all disciplines across Microsoft.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  
  • OR equivalent 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
• 4+ 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).
• 4+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
• 5+ years of experience shipping products in a Product Manager, TPM, Program Manager, or Developer role
• Experience in stakeholder management and partner engagement.
  Ability to navigate and influence across complex technical stacks and organizational boundaries.
  Experience working with external partners in a product development context.

#W+DJOBS

Product Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.