Principal Product Manager

Overview

The Engineering Workforce Strategy and Operations team is seeking a Principal Product Manager - a deeply technical product leader operating at the intersection of product management and technical product management - to help shape and drive the product for RAMP (Resource Allocation Management Platform) , Microsoft's internal, AI-powered workforce resource management and planning platform that is rapidly becoming the foundation for how engineering organizations understand resources king in close partnership with platform leadership and engineering you keep the product tightly connected to the people who rely on it - L1 executive offices, business managers, and finance partners - translating their needs into what the team builds and ensuring their feedback drives continuous improvement.

This is a rare opportunity to shape a platform at the center of Microsoft's transformation toward AI-driven business operations. As the system of record for workforce planning across core engineering divisions - including E+D, Microsoft Security, T&R, Microsoft AI, and Core AI Platform - RAMP sits at the intersection of Engineering, HR, and Finance, powering decisions that directly impact how teams are built, funded, and executed.

As the platform scales, this role helps steer RAMP from traditional reporting to agentic, intelligent, predictive, and increasingly autonomous planning - enabling real-time visibility, forward-looking insights, and streamlined decision-making across thousands of users and complex organizational structures.

As a Principal Product Manager, you are a senior product leader on the platform team. You help define the multi-year product strategy and set a high bar for how the team builds. You are well connected into AI roadmaps of teams across the company, and able to assess and understand how it should shape RAMP's roadmap and expectations of our internal customers.

This is a highly technical product role: you are fluent in system architecture, data platforms, and AI/agentic patterns, and you are as comfortable in an architecture review as you are in an executive business review. You are a systems thinker who sees how data, AI, and workflows come together, and you are experienced in transforming teams to build products in agile ways, with pace and urgency.

This position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.

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

* Product Strategy &

Roadmap:

Help shape and drive the product strategy and roadmap for RAMP's AI-driven platform. Articulate how new capabilities (e.g., predictive headcount forecasting, agentic workflow automation, AI-powered data insights, and increasingly autonomous planning) solve real business problems and create durable value for users across divisions. Maintain and prioritize a roadmap that balances near-term delivery with long-term platform bets, keeping it aligned with Microsoft's broader "AI-first" business operations strategy and grounded in real customer needs.

* Technical Strategy & Architecture Partnership:
Operate as the technical counterpart to the engineering team, jointly owning the platform's technical direction. Partner on architecture, service boundaries, data models, and build-vs-buy decisions, making explicit trade-offs between speed and scale, customization and standardization. Translate ambitious product direction into a durable, extensible architecture; author technical specifications and shape the engineering approach with enough depth to be a credible peer in design and architecture reviews.

Ensure the platform can evolve as new AI capabilities, data sources, and business needs emerge.

* AI, Agentic & Data Integration:
Champion the intelligent use of data and AI within the product. Ensure RAMP continues to leverage Microsoft's latest technologies (e.g., Power Platform, Dataverse, Fabric, and modern AI/agent frameworks) for a robust, scalable foundation. Define the strategy for embedding predictive models, anomaly detection, intelligent workflows, and increasingly autonomous, agentic capabilities - working hand in hand with data engineering, analytics, and applied AI teams.

Establish patterns for data governance, lineage, and quality that keep the platform trusted at scale.

* User Experience, Voice of the Customer & Adoption:
Keep the platform user-centric for business managers, chiefs of staff, and finance - for tasks like updating targets, submitting PCN/headcount requests, or retrieving reports. Institutionalize continuous discovery (user interviews, telemetry, and pilots for new divisions) and act as a voice of the…