Principal Product Manager-Developer Adoption & Ecosystem, AI Economy

Overview

The AI Economy Team at Microsoft is building the infrastructure that powers how organizations ground, deploy, and scale AI applications. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager, Developer Adoption & Ecosystem to accelerate how developers discover, adopt, and successfully deploy Microsoft AI platform capabilities.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will own developer adoption outcomes by identifying barriers to developer success and driving investments across the ecosystem that make Microsoft the easiest platform for developers to build on. You will shape strategy across partnerships, integrations, libraries, tooling, platform workflows, and community feedback loops, helping developers move from initial evaluation to successful production deployment.

This is a highly cross-functional role for a product leader who can operate in ambiguity, deeply understand developer needs, and translate ecosystem signals into scalable product investments. You will combine strong product judgment, technical depth, developer empathy, and a data-driven approach to accelerate adoption, retention, and ecosystem growth.

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

• Define and execute the strategy for developer adoption, activation, time-to-value, and long-term ecosystem growth.
• Own the end-to-end developer success journey, identifying and addressing barriers that prevent developers from successfully deploying AI-powered applications.
• Build a deep understanding of developer workflows and determine where investments in integrations, SDKs, libraries, tooling, samples, and partnerships can most effectively accelerate adoption.
• Develop ecosystem strategies that make Microsoft AI capabilities easier to discover, evaluate, integrate, and deploy.
• Identify high-impact partnership opportunities across developer platforms, frameworks, tools, and communities to expand reach and reduce developer friction.
• Establish metrics and operating mechanisms to measure developer activation, retention, production deployment, and ecosystem health.
• Gather insights from customers, partners, and developers to guide product strategy and investment decisions.
• Partner across Engineering, Developer Relations, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to align investments and improve developer outcomes.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations contributing to the developer journey while maintaining a focus on measurable adoption outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building APIs, SDKs, developer platforms, cloud services, or technical products used by external developers.
• Experience improving developer onboarding, activation, documentation, tooling, or platform usability.
• Experience driving adoption and growth for technical platforms or consumption-based products.
• Understanding of AI platforms, cloud infrastructure, developer ecosystems, APIs, or platform business models.
• Experience defining platform strategy across multiple teams and organizational boundaries.
• Experience communicating and engaging both technical and business audiences.

Product Management IC5 - 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.

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.