Job Description

At Microsoft, we’re reimagining Windows as the best place for developers to build and grow their applications—and the Windows Platform & Developer Experience team sits at the heart of that mission.

Our work is simple in ambition but deep in impact: make developers successful on Windows That means removing friction from the end to end app development journey, helping teams ship faster with confidence, and ensuring applications built on Windows are performant, reliable, and delightful for millions of users.

You’ll work on some of the most meaningful challenges in the Windows ecosystem - modernizing the app platform, strengthening core developer fundamentals, and enabling developers to reach users seamlessly across native, hybrid, and crossplatform technologies. We meet developers where they already are by supporting familiar frameworks and workflows, while also unlocking experiences that are uniquely powerful on Windows through deep OS integration and differentiated capabilities.

As Windows evolves toward more intelligent, agentdriven experiences, this team plays a critical role in shaping the platform primitives, APIs, and tooling that developers rely on. Your work will directly influence how quickly developers can innovate, how confidently they can ship, and how high the quality bar is for apps across the Windows ecosystem.

If you’re excited about building platforms at scale, empowering developers, and shaping the future of Windows, this is the team where your impact will be felt every day.

Responsibilities

• Own a customer problem area within WPD, from problem definition and PRD/roadmap to execution with engineering and launch/landing with customers and field.

• Translate customer needs into platform features and guidance, partnering across product groups and stakeholders.

• Design extensible platform APIs for 1P and 3P developers to build custom search experiences.

• Drive strategic partnerships to align on shared goals, unlock new scenarios, and amplify impact.

• Influence technical architecture and long-term platform strategy in collaboration with engineering and applied science.

• Define success metrics, track SLT-level KPIs, and lead initiatives that deliver measurable growth and customer impact.

• Represent the voice of the customer and developer to ensure the platform is intuitive, powerful, and future-ready

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/project/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.

  • Experience influencing technical architecture and aligning cross-functional teams on complex systems.

  • Proven success designing developer-facing APIs and extensibility models.

  • Deep experience in cross-functional environments and influencing outcomes across diverse teams and senior stakeholders.

  • Executive communication skills: connect product investments to customer needs and business outcomes.

  • Passion for building not just great products, but also great team culture—collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

  • Ability to balance big-picture vision with day-to-day execution.

  • Exceptional skills in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders across engineering, design, marketing, research, and business disciplines.

  Preferred Qualifications:

  1. AI acumen: Knowledge of language models, training, evals, RAG, grounding, and on‑device constraints (NPU, latency, power).

  2. Familiarity with Windows subsystems and app development.

  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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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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.