Principal Product Manager - AI Data Platform

The Principal Product Manager for Microsoft's AI Data Platform is a strategic leader responsible for driving the vision, execution, and impact of a central platform that manages the full lifecycle of first-party, third-party, synthetic, and human-labeled data for AI training across Microsoft. This role is mission-critical to breaking down data silos, maximizing ROI on data investments, and accelerating AI model development.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every developer and organization to achieve more with AI. As part of the CoreAI organization, the Data for AI team sits at the heart of this mission : we design and operate Microsoft's central AI data platform-the backbone for acquiring, curating, synthesizing, and governing the data that powers our most advanced language and multimodal models

As a Principal Product Manager for Data for AI, you will define and drive the vision for the data lifecycle spanning first-party, third-party, synthetic, and human-labeled data.

You will lead a team of PMs and partner deeply with engineering, research, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders to make high-value datasets discoverable, reusable, cost-efficient, and compliant. This role is critical to maximizing ROI on Microsoft's data investments, accelerating model innovation, and ensuring responsible AI at scale.

We are looking for a proven AI / ML product leader with startup scrappiness and Big Tech scale experience - someone who thrives in ambiguity, has a track record of execution, and can unify a complex ecosystem into a coherent platform strategy.

Success in Role :

In your first 6-12 months, success looks like :

Launching a unified cross-company data platform that reduces redundancy and accelerates access to high-value datasets.

Accelerating acquisition, curation and impact of high quality datasets across multi-modal scenarios

Establishing data provenance guarantees that become a benchmark for responsible AI at Microsoft.

Delivering measurable improvements in data quality, model performance, and cost efficiency.

Building a high-performing PM team recognized for clarity, velocity, and impact.

Responsibilities :

• Platform Strategy & Execution : Define and drive the vision, strategy, development and roadmap for Microsoft's cross-company AI data platform to making data discoverable, accessible, and reusable across teams.
• Lifecycle Automation : Drive automation of dataset ingestion, registration, validation, PII curation, discovery, sharing, and lineage.
• Security & Compliance : Strengthen security, manage capacity and entitlements, and integrate with governance and compliance services.
• Stakeholder Engagement : Collaborate to align priorities and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Data Acquisition & Curation : Strategically acquire, generate, and onboard high-value datasets, minimizing redundancy and optimizing costs.
• Customer-Driven Roadmap : Establish a customer-driven priority framework and long-term roadmap for platform evolution.
• Continuous Improvement : Implement feedback loops to improve data quality and model performance, leveraging human-in-the-loop workflows for annotation and validation.
• Operate engineering tooling : oversee automation pipelines and continuous improvement of data-onboarding workflows.
• Collaborate with product teams : engineers, and researchers across Microsoft and external vendors to identify gaps and drive timelines toward resolution.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications :

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 :

Preferred Qualifications :

Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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.

Product Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here :

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and / or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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