Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft's Azure Data 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. 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.

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable a multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and Open-Source Software (OSS) offerings.

We need a Principal PM who can tell the story across databases, connect telemetry to strategy, drive conference narratives & demos, lead our Gartner MQ engagements, and go deep on GTM challenges to unlock adoption across segments. You'll be the portfolio PM who bridges Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Fabric Databases, HorizonDB, DocumentDB and more-owning the cohesive narrative and proof through measurable, data-driven impact.

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.

Responsibilities

Narrative & Messaging: Own the portfolio story; author executive-ready content and maintain an evergreen artifact set used by product leaders and spokespeople.

Events & Demos: Lead demo strategy for Database Conferences including Build/Ignite/PASS/SQLBits; secure customer stories; ensure legal/compliance reviews and demo reliability.

Analyst Relations: Run end-to-end MQ motions with AR; prep speakers, coordinate content, and close factual reviews.

GTM Execution: Partner with product and GTM marketing, and sales to land plays; instrument impact with telemetry; iterate based on outcomes.

Cross-DB Collaboration: Work across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, Fabric Databases and emerging services to ensure consistency and lift for the whole portfolio (e.g., Cosmos DB, SQL, Fabric DBs).

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

6+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).

8+ 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).

8+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).

A strong technical background and solid foundation in software engineering principles and architecture design.

Ability to plan, influence technical designs and present to SLT on projects that will have potential long-term impact to Microsoft.

Great cross-team collaboration skills and the desire to collaborate in a team of researchers and developers.

Strong communication skills (both written and oral).

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.