Principal Product Manager - CoreAI (Enterprise Security and Governance)

Job description

**Overview** We are building the industry’s leading AI-first application stack with enhanced reliability, security, performance, and scale. Microsoft Foundry is redefining model-forward development with new UI/UX patterns, runtimes to build agents, orchestrating across multiple agents, and a reimagined management and observability layer. We are a small, friendly, fast-moving team, we support each other to do the best work of our lives, always looking to break new ground, fast. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI agent era. We run lean, obsess about customers, and always make our decisions based on the evidence. We ship regularly, so your work will have real and immediate impact. It’s a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it. Join the Microsoft Foundry team as we redefine the build, deploy, operate loop for generative AI development and accelerate the next wave of innovation. We are building the industry’s leading model serving platform, empowering customer applications and agents with unmatched reliability, security, performance, and flexibility. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead Foundry’s enterprise security and governance strategy. You will partner with engineering, security, compliance, identity, and platform teams to deliver secure, governable AI capabilities at scale. Your work will help enterprises move confidently from experimentation to production meeting their security and compliance requirements while accelerating adoption. **Responsibilities** - Own Foundry’s enterprise security and governance strategy and roadmap, proactively identifying readiness gaps and prioritizing investments based on customer impact, security risk, and business value. - Define the end-to-end enterprise promise across Foundry models, agents, and platform capabilities. - Drive cross-organizational execution across engineering, security, compliance, identity, governance, field, and feature teams. - Translate enterprise needs and telemetry signals into systemic product improvements, turning recurring deployment friction into scalable capabilities. - Deliver security capabilities for regulated and government cloud environments. - Represent Microsoft externally with chief information security offices (CISOs), security advisory boards, and industry analysts, and bring that market insight back into the product roadmap. - Promote agility and learning, empowering teams to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve our AI systems at a faster pace. - Provide clarity in ambiguous environments, influence stakeholders, and foster a culture of innovation and accountability. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** - Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development. - OR equivalent 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:** - Proven success in launching and scaling multi-million dollar revenue products, ideally in the AI/ML security platform domain. - Experience defining product strategy in enterprise security, threat detection, security posture management, identity, or data governance. - Deep fluency with enterprise security and governance domains, ideally including endpoint, identity, and data-protection technologies. - Experience engaging externally with security buyers (CISOs), industry analysts, and ecosystem partners. - Product led growth focus with data-driven decision-making skills. - Excellent executive presence and stakeholder management capabilities. - Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex dependencies. - Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with a bias for action. #CoreAI #Foundry 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: 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.**](https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)