Principal Product Manager Architect, App Migration & Modernization

The Azure Developer Experience Growth team is seeking a Principal Product Manager (PM) Architect to define and own long-term product vision & strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platform experiences and tools that accelerate application migration & modernization toward Microsoft Azure’s developer-centric cloud application platform. A Principal PM Architect operates at the intersection of product strategy, architecture, and execution, owning a domain and magnifying the impact of others through leadership, clarity, and alignment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments, and can drive technical vision, customer outcomes, and organizational influence. This highly influential position will impact Microsoft’s platform business globally through the delivery of a comprehensive set of agentic AI capabilities, broad evangelism across stakeholders, and associated platform growth.

Our application platform is comprised of Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Azure API Management, Azure Logic Apps, and more. Developer tools to build on that platform include Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitHub Copilot, and more. We are focused on maximizing developer productivity while maintaining strict security, reliability, and scalability standards. The Growth team is responsible for advancing the platform's growth by partnering with diverse internal and external stakeholders. Through a comprehensive understanding of customer and sales workforce requirements, the team identifies and prioritizes essential product capabilities that expedite cloud migration and modernization. Additionally, the team effectively communicates the platform's value and competitive advantages, while equipping customers and field sellers with differentiated AI-driven experiences, tools, and guidance.

One aspect of our charter is to deliver a reciprocal collaboration process with the Azure sales force (the “field”). To be successful partnering with the field we need to provide them with the right tools and content catered to what customers are expecting to see and which will accelerate their journey to build new and migrate & modernize existing Enterprise-grade applications on the platform. Collectively, this work delivers a range of tailored agentic AI experiences designed to streamline Java and .NET application migration and modernization, addressing even the most complex Enterprise requirements. By minimizing cost, time, and manual effort, these experiences accelerate IT, development, operations, and database activities both at the application level and across the entire estate.

Our customers increasingly expect AI-assisted, end-to-end, full-stack experiences that support them throughout their journey to modernize their application estate on the cloud. Our priority is to build holistic AI experiences that developers and operators love and Enterprises trust.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a keen understanding of the cloud technology stack, software product development, as well as the marketplace. They will be able to work with Azure engineering, product managers, and customer-facing field sellers and be able to “translate” issues and concerns on both sides. They will effectively communicate with senior leaders and negotiate product investments. 

• Collaborate with product management, engineering, marketing, field sales, market research, and analytics and engage deeply with customers to inform and prioritize product opportunities 
• Define long-term product portfolio vision and strategy and own multi-year, multi-horizon roadmaps with incremental value delivery 
• Design composable and extensible capabilities that can scale through Partners  
• Align and oversee cross-functional product management, engineering, design, and marketing to deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences that span products 
• Iterate continually to measure investment impact and ensure roadmap alignment with evolving customer needs and business goals 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product management, technical sales or consulting, or software engineering
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in designing, building, and running distributed applications in the cloud for large enterprise companies. 
• Experience in technology, cloud computing, agentic AI, and cloud migration business models and related objectives and benefits. 
• Experience mapping customer needs to technical solutions and experience applying technology to create desired business outcomes.  

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. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Ability to engage in initiatives without defined processes or known outcomes.  

• Experience in a complex multi-team, strategy, and fast paced business environment. 

• Experience in delivering inner-source projects. 

• Willingness to take on a big challenge with significant growth potential.  

• An advanced understanding of technology business models.  

• Attention to detail, self-discipline, and self-motivation.  
• Balance in both strategy development and program execution, delivering incremental and measurable progress. 

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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