What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Product Manager, Web Platform position at Microsoft AI?
Overview
Microsoft AI is driving the next wave of innovation across Copilot, Bing, Edge, MSN, and other AI first experiences. We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to invent the future of the Web as part of the Microsoft Edge web platform team. Our mission is to steward the web platform by delivering new capabilities, improvements, and innovations that equip the Web to thrive amid a rapidly changing technology landscape. In Edge, we are innovating to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging foundational technologies like artificial intelligence, new monetization paradigms, novel hardware and interaction paradigms, and the continuous need to raise the bar for end user experience including performance, accessibility, and privacy.
As a Web Platform Principal Product Manager, you will work to identify and deliver solutions for the unmet needs of our customers, including web developers, publishers, and end users across platforms, browsers, and operating systems. You will build deep familiarity with the needs of developers, from platform primitives to developer frameworks and tools. You will think deeply about how artificial intelligence can enable novel solutions and accelerate the delivery of new experiences for developers and end users. You will critically evaluate how new capabilities affect the quality of the user experience, fundamental expectations around performance, privacy and accessibility, and the ecosystem of publishers, advertisers, and creators across the Web. You will work with industry groups like the Chromium project, and standards bodies like the W3C, to socialize and iterate on innovate proposals on behalf of the Web community. This opportunity will empower you to deliver meaningful impact for tens of millions of developers and billions of Web users, and to enable a thriving Web for the next era of computing.
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.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:
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
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.
Microsoft AI is driving the next wave of innovation across Copilot, Bing, Edge, MSN, and other AI first experiences. We are looking for an experienced Principal Product Manager to invent the future of the Web as part of the Microsoft Edge web platform team. Our mission is to steward the web platform by delivering new capabilities, improvements, and innovations that equip the Web to thrive amid a rapidly changing technology landscape. In Edge, we are innovating to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging foundational technologies like artificial intelligence, new monetization paradigms, novel hardware and interaction paradigms, and the continuous need to raise the bar for end user experience including performance, accessibility, and privacy.
As a Web Platform Principal Product Manager, you will work to identify and deliver solutions for the unmet needs of our customers, including web developers, publishers, and end users across platforms, browsers, and operating systems. You will build deep familiarity with the needs of developers, from platform primitives to developer frameworks and tools. You will think deeply about how artificial intelligence can enable novel solutions and accelerate the delivery of new experiences for developers and end users. You will critically evaluate how new capabilities affect the quality of the user experience, fundamental expectations around performance, privacy and accessibility, and the ecosystem of publishers, advertisers, and creators across the Web. You will work with industry groups like the Chromium project, and standards bodies like the W3C, to socialize and iterate on innovate proposals on behalf of the Web community. This opportunity will empower you to deliver meaningful impact for tens of millions of developers and billions of Web users, and to enable a thriving Web for the next era of computing.
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.
Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
Responsibilities
- You will drive business impact across the organization and track success criteria for web platform features and strategic initiatives. You’ll also identify long-term investment opportunities and engage internal and external partners to validate requirements and garner support for features and initiatives
- You will define platform features to meet the needs of internal and external partners. You will define requirements with customers and facilitate API design, iteration, and experimentation with cross-functional stakeholders internally and with industry groups including standards bodies and open-source projects. You’ll own the roadmap for multiple feature areas and will collaborate with partner teams to build golden configurations and drive scenario walkthroughs.
- You will scale Product Marketing teams by helping build marketing, roll-out, and customer support plans. You’ll also promote the feature areas you worked on and present at large events.
- You will partner with others to collect performance metrics and form hypotheses for complex technical needs in order to improve product development in targeted areas. You’ll also identify features to deprecate, manage customer communities, and build trust with targeted customers.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8 years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- Professional experience with web technologies including HTML, JS, and CSS
- Professional experience working on web browsers or in web standards (or similar related experience) or building developer-facing products (developer tools, app platforms, etc.)
- Experience using artificial intelligence tools for web development including e.g. agentic coding tools (such as GitHub Copilot), MCP, Google Antigravity, Claude Code, etc.
- Experience with developer relations and/or developer advocacy (e.g. evangelizing developer tools or frameworks in articles, blogs, social media, videos, etc; presenting at developer conferences; working directly with highly technical customers to gather and synthesize requirements; influencing product roadmaps on behalf of customer requirements)
- Experience with product development for large web applications (e.g. web apps, desktop/mobile applications built on the web platform, etc.)
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
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.
Salary : $139,900 - $274,800