Principal Product Manager - Azure Core

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Azure Storage team's efficiency and AI initiatives, leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI)-informed analysis to anticipate customer needs and prioritize investments that lower total cost of storage across Azure Blob, Files, and Elastic SAN Translate complex distributed systems and AI concepts into business value for executives, engineering leadership, and customers; build consensus around an AI-first storage product strategy Partner with Software Engineering (SWE), Hardware Engineering (HWE), and Applied Sciences teams to define feature sets, roadmap tradeoffs, and AI-based systems and frameworks that scale storage economics and performance across divisional boundaries Drive go-to-market strategy from private preview to general availability with Product Marketing, Business Planning, and field teams; evangelize storage efficiency and AI-driven storage innovations at Executive Briefing Centers (EBCs) and industry events Define and instrument success metrics — Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), adoption, retention, and AI model quality — and derive insights from telemetry and customer engagements to drive prioritization Lead customer engagement programs and executive conversations for the largest Azure storage consumers; incorporate security, privacy, compliance, and Responsible AI factors into every phase of product design and lifecycle Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development 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)