Principal Product Manager

Overview
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
Within Microsoft Fabric, the Platform team builds and operates the unified foundation that brings together all Fabric workloads into a single, cohesive experience. The platform provides shared infrastructure, governance, security, and a unified data model that enables customers to manage their entire data estate in one place. This team is central to delivering Fabric as a complete, end-to-end intelligence platform.
Microsoft OneLake is a fundamental component of the Fabric platform enabling users to unify their data estate in a secure, managed and open data lake. In this role, you'd be responsible for the vision, roadmap and delivery of OneLake's operational, standards-based catalog service. You'd collaborate with internal and external partners to expand integrations based on open standards and develop new features and capabilities that advance OneLake Catalog as a market leader.
We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
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
Establish the long-term vision for OneLake Catalog and translate customer, platform, and market needs into a clear product strategy.
Build and continuously refine the roadmap, balancing customer scenarios, platform investments, open standards, partner requirements, and competitive differentiation.
Lead capabilities from concept through design, engineering collaboration, launch, and adoption, ensuring outcomes align with business and customer needs.
Partner across Microsoft and with external technology providers to expand OneLake integrations using open standards, enabling interoperability across the broader data ecosystem.
Identify emerging customer needs, technology trends, community-driven efforts and competitive opportunities, then develop differentiated capabilities that establish OneLake Catalog as a leading enterprise data catalog.
Embody our culture and values.
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
Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
OR equivalent experience.
4+ years experience taking a product, feature or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework).
6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn).
6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product).
Understanding of open file formats, Apache Iceberg and the Iceberg REST and Hive catalog concepts.
Understanding of the catalog market, its key players and differentiated capabilities.
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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, read more about requesting accommodations.

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