Job Description

Microsoft Discovery and Quantum (MDQ) is defining the next frontier of technology by advancing artificial intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery, developing the next era of quantum computing, and creating an ecosystem that enables breakthrough innovation for customers and partners. For more information about our team, visit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum

As a Principal Product Manager (PM) – Growth, you will own the adoption, engagement, and ecosystem expansion across MDQ's emerging product portfolio.

This role is ideal for a product leader who can combine deep customer empathy, strong technical fluency, and a rigorous experimentation mindset to shape how customers and partners discover and realize value from AI and quantum technologies for research and development (R&D). As a Principal PM, you will create clarity in ambiguous spaces, define vision, influence senior leaders, and drive cross-org alignment across engineering, research, partner, and go-to-market (GTM) organizations.

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

Thought Leadership execution

• Drive the playbook for how researchers, enterprises, developers, and partners discover and deliver value at scale with MDQ technologies.
• Align engineering, research, marketing, and business teams around key growth priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Execute thought leadership activities for MDQ products, including communications, customer case studies, internal adoption wins, demos, and events.

Engagement strategy and content

• Design the strategy, messaging, narrative and value proposition to be used as a foundation for the communication and sales teams.
• Develop engaging content such as decks, whitepapers, and demos targeting business decision makers, chief scientists, and R&D directors showcasing the R&D transformation with AI and Quantum.
• Create practitioner assets to engage scientists and researchers, driving product awareness, adoption, and satisfaction.

Ecosystem & Platform Growth

• Identify new opportunities to extend MDQ's reach through partnerships, integrations, developer tools, and platform capabilities.
• Drive the plan to expand the MDQ ecosystem across ISVs and Software Integrators.
• Engage with selected partners to orchestrate the commercial and technical motions to help them onboard the platform, bring it to market, and successfully deliver customer projects.
• Partner with engineering and ecosystem teams to remove adoption barriers, streamline onboarding, and create scalable pathways to activation.

Customer & Market Insight

• Lead customer research with developers, researchers, and enterprise users to uncover deep insights.
• Translate complex customer needs into product experiences that accelerate time-to-value and long-term engagement.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the evolving landscape of scientific workflows, quantum computing, and developer ecosystems.

Cross-Organizational Influence

• Drive alignment across engineering teams, partner orgs, and business stakeholders.
• Influence senior leaders through clear narratives, data-forward insights, and customer impact.
• Bring clarity and decision-making rigor to ambiguous problem spaces.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management 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.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success shaping multi-year roadmaps and driving cross-functional programs across internal organizations.
• Demonstrated success building and executing growth strategies across the entire go-to-market lifecycle including acquisition, onboarding, engagement, or retention.
• Experience leveraging analytical skills to define metrics, design experiments, and synthesize complex data.
• Ability to lead through influence and deliver results in ambiguous, highly technical domains.
• Strong technical fluency and ability to partner deeply with engineering and research teams.
• Experience in deep tech, scientific computing, developer platforms, and ecosystem development.
• Experience driving community or partner ecosystem growth.
• Experienced with written and verbal communication, and narratives for an executive audience.

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.

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.