Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Digital

** Overview*
* Microsoft Digital (MSD) develops and operates products, platforms, and services that support Microsoft employees and business operations. The organization brings together technical, operational, and business expertise to deliver solutions that support productivity, security, and operational effectiveness across Microsoft. MSD employees design, implement, and manage technology solutions at enterprise scale.

** The Principal Product Manager
** will manage governance, onboarding, lifecycle management, compliance, and enablement processes for third-party applications and artificial intelligence agents used across the enterprise. Collaborate across procurement, security, compliance, developer enablement, platform operations, tenant operations, and artificial intelligence initiatives.

It defines and manages processes, policies, and operational frameworks that support the evaluation, onboarding, use, and lifecycle management of external applications and artificial intelligence agents. These processes incorporate enterprise requirements related to procurement, security, privacy, identity, compliance, lifecycle management, and risk management.

The Principal Product Manager collaborates with stakeholders across procurement, product engineering, security, compliance, platform operations, service engineering, application publishers, and business teams to support the adoption and management of third-party applications and artificial intelligence-enabled solutions. At par balances business needs, operational requirements, and governance standards while supporting a consistent and scalable approach across the organization.

This position establishes processes and policies that help employees identify and adopt approved external applications and agents while meeting enterprise procurement, security, privacy, identity, lifecycle, and risk management requirements. The role connects procurement, product groups, security teams, compliance organizations, service engineers, application publishers, business stakeholders, and end users.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees collaborate toward shared goals and work in accordance with the company's values of respect, integrity, and accountability. Microsoft is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where employees can contribute and grow.

** Responsibilities*
* This role is responsible for establishing and operating enterprise processes for the governance and lifecycle management of third-party applications and artificial intelligence agents.

Responsibilities include:

+ Define and operate enterprise frameworks for onboarding, approval, publication, monitoring, remediation, and retirement of third-party applications and artificial intelligence agents.

+ Establish ownership and accountability, connect procurement and governance processes, and document procedures for risk acceptance and remediation.

+ Manage the application and agent lifecycle from intake and review through certification, publication, updates, and decommissioning.

+ Align catalogs, administrative experiences, and governance platforms to support consistent lifecycle management and tenant maintenance at scale.

+ Manage compliance and certification programs, including readiness, validation, monitoring, renewal, and remediation activities.

+ Partner with identity, security, and platform teams to govern administrative consent, permissions, authentication, single sign-on, and external identity integration.

+ Assess ecosystem risks and provide recurring reports to leadership.

+ Maintain a centralized catalog of approved applications and agents, including ownership, certification status, metadata, and governance indicators.

+ Develop processes that support employees in discovering, evaluating, requesting, and adopting compliant external solutions and approved alternatives.

+ Coordinate with Product Groups, Security, Compliance, Identity, Legal, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, and business stakeholders to address ownership and process gaps.

+ Partner with the Enterprise App and Agent Ecosystem lead on strategy, priorities, and execution.

+ Define enterprise readiness standards for third-party agents, including observability, safety, compliance, and lifecycle requirements.

+ Use defined measures to evaluate approval-cycle duration, compliance and catalog coverage, unmanaged-solution reduction, and readiness for growth in agent adoption.

+ Embody our culture ()  and values () .

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development

+ OR equivalent experience.

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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* + Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 4+ years of experience bringing a product, feature, service, or internal solution from concept through implementation and adoption,…