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Posted date: Aug 04, 2025
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Category: Product Management
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Join the team that brings Microsoft’s vision to life. Surface Devices enhance the Microsoft experience by designing products that empower users, elevate productivity, and lead the Windows ecosystem. As a core member of this team, you’ll help shape the future of how people interact with technology — seamlessly, intuitively, and with purpose — while driving the business forward to empower more customers.As a Principal Product Manager, you will lead a product line within the Surface Portfolio defining product vision and strategy while working in close collaboration with leaders across engineering, design, finance, marketing, and operations. You will lead peers and Surface leaders as an end-to-end Product Manager, partnering with a world-class Program Management team to deliver exceptional product experiences across hardware and software. This role is based in Redmond, Washington and allows partial flexibility in working from home.
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.
Lead through ambiguity; translate ideas into product vision; identify clear roadmaps, crisp requirements, and compelling product narratives grounded in customer insight and market foresight. Lead through influence, aligning engineering, design, marketing, and other stakeholders by building trust and shared ownership to drive product definition and business case development to support portfolio line growth and operational excellence.Serve as a model of excellence in product management, empowering teams by creating clarity, surfacing obstacles, and modeling solid decision-making and product advocacy.Keep a pulse on the market, tracking competitors, market trends, and industry shifts; identify strategic opportunities or threats. Engage both internal and external customers, utilizing sales teams, commercial partnerships, and direct communication with end users.Work with marketing and other teams to define and understand target audience as well as product purpose and the value it brings.Craft product line storytelling to help customers understand the uniqueness of Surface and why our products are best in class.Advocate for your products and customers, combining an understanding of the ecosystem and categories to guide product, portfolio and business evolution.Drive continuous improvement among the Product Management team by identifying and implementing opportunities to leverage AI, enabling the team to focus on high-impact, strategic work.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.2+ years experience leading cross-functional teams through complex processes to desired results while managing risk in an ambiguous and rapidly evolving environment.
2+ years experience developing product roadmaps and shipping hardware or software products that deliver customer and business value. Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software developmentOR equivalent experience.Deep understanding of product management at a mass scale, business operations, and product financials as well as a deep curiosity and passion for customers, products, and growing the business.Demonstrated expertise in leading organizational transformation.Product Management IC5 - 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 11, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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