Principal Product Manager
Product
Redmond, WA, USA
Microsoft Edge serves hundreds of millions of users who expect a browser that is fast, reliable, accessible, and trustworthy. The Edge Fundamentals PM team owns the horizontal, cross-cutting work that keeps the core browser healthy: quality and reliability, performance and efficiency, feature-health monitoring, and the user-experience improvements that drive long-term retention.
We are hiring a Principal PM Manager to lead this team. You will set strategy and mission plans across planning cycles, define clear ownership and success metrics, coach a team of product managers, and partner deeply with engineering, design, and partner teams across Edge, Windows, and MAI to ensure the platform stays high-quality and performant at scale.
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
- Strategy & planning. Set the multi-cycle strategy and mission plans for Edge Fundamentals, translating broad quality and platform-health goals into prioritized, measurable roadmaps.
- People leadership. Lead, coach, and grow a team of PMs; review execution quality, define DRIs, and ensure every workstream has clear scope, success metrics, and resourcing.
- Quality & reliability. Own the browser quality, reliability, and service-maturity agenda — telemetry-driven quality loops, regression detection, pre-merge quality gates, backlog and AI-driven debt reduction, and test-coverage improvements.
- Performance & efficiency. Drive performance and efficiency initiatives (e.g., memory/efficiency features such as Sleeping Tabs, performance instrumentation and analysis), prioritizing correctly across the org and defining clear success criteria.
- Feature health. Guide the feature-health monitoring system — scope, success metrics, and resourcing — so regressions are caught and reliability improves before customers are impacted.
- Retention & UX quality. Act as the DRI-level owner for retention, aligning performance, reliability, and UX quality with customer-satisfaction and retention goals.
- Cross-cutting platform health. Steward accessibility, advise on privacy product-vs-risk tradeoffs, and coordinate globalization and Windows-integration asks with engineering.
- Cross-team partnership. Partner with Edge engineering, Edge India, MAI, Windows, design, and data-science teams; represent Fundamentals in org-wide planning and reviews.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) people management 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years managing and growing PM teams.
- Demonstrated success owning horizontal or platform-level workstreams (quality, performance, reliability, or growth/retention) for a large-scale consumer product.
- Solid data fluency — comfortable defining metrics, reading telemetry, and using experimentation to drive decisions.
- Track record of setting strategy and converting it into executed, measurable outcomes across multiple planning cycles.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication; able to influence engineering and partner teams without direct authority.
- Experience with browsers, OS platforms, or other client/runtime software at consumer scale.
- Familiarity with browser-quality domains: performance/memory efficiency, accessibility compliance, privacy tradeoffs, and globalization.
- Experience standing up or operating feature-health / reliability monitoring systems and pre-merge quality gates.
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Product Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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