Tokyo, JP

Principal Product Manager – Microsoft AI and Copilot Principal Product Manager – Microsoft AI and Copilot

Location
Tokyo, JP
Job Number
200034700-en-1
City
Tokyo
Team
Other
Country
JP
Discipline
Product Management
Overview

Microsoft Copilot is evolving from a chat interface into an intelligent, agentic system that understands context, adapts to users, and communicates intent and reasoning in trustworthy ways. Identity & Expression defines how Copilot shows up to users – its presence, tone, timing, and behavior -across consumer and enterprise experiences. 
 
As the Principal Product Manager for Copilot Identity, Expression & AI Companions, you will own Copilot’s expression and embodiment layer, with Mico as a core reference implementation. Based in Japan, this role serves as the product owner for how expressive AI agents are designed, evaluated, and deployed globally, using Japan as a lead design and enterprise pilot market. 
 
Copilot being Microsoft core AI product bet. This role requires an AI-native mindset, strong enterprise judgment, and the ability to make product decisions under AI uncertainty – especially around trust, tone, restraint, and evaluation. 

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Responsibilities
 
  • Define Copilot’s Identity & Expression strategy across text, voice, and UI-aware surfaces, including how AI agents express reasoning, confidence, uncertainty, and progress. 

  • Own Mico as the reference implementation of Copilot Identity & Expression, ensuring it evolves as a platform capability rather than a standalone feature. 

  • Translate expressive and agentic AI capabilities into clear enterprise value, such as onboarding, workflow guidance, and reduced cognitive load. 

  • Define enterprise trust models for expressive AI, including governance, admin control, safety constraints, and predictable failure modes. 

  • Lead AI evaluation strategy for expressive and agentic experiences, defining quality bars beyond accuracy: trust, tone, appropriateness, and user confidence. 

  • Use Japan as a strategic design and enterprise pilot market, incorporating cultural sensitivity, politeness, and indirect guidance into global Copilot standards. 

  • Partner closely with engineering, design, research, security, legal, and go-to-market teams across Japan, the US, and China to deliver aligned Copilot experiences. 

  • Communicate product vision and trade-offs clearly to executive stakeholders, representing Identity & Expression as a core Copilot system. 



Qualifications

Required Qualifications (Must Have) 

  • 7+ years of software product managementaking from a user need, a prototype from engineering to market. 

  • Hands-on experience delivering AI or generative-AI-powered features or products. 

  • Experience working on enterprise or business-facing products, including IT, security, or operational constraints. 

  • Experience evaluating product quality using both quantitative metrics and qualitative feedback, including cases where release decisions were adjusted or delayed. 

  • Proven experience working cross-functionally with engineering, design, research, and business stakeholders. 

Nice to Have 

  • Experience with AI agents, Copilot-style assistants, or conversational interfaces. 

  • Enterprise productivity, collaboration, or workflow automation background. 

  • Experience working with global teams across Japan and other regions. 

  • Business-level or fluent Japanese language proficiency. 

Why This Role Matters 

This role defines how Copilot earns trust through expression, presence, and restraint. As AI systems become more capable, how they communicate becomes as important as what they do. You will shape a core Copilot capability that affects millions of users and enterprise customers globally. 

#MicrosoftAI 


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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Job Number
200027794-en-1
City
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Team
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Discipline
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Overview

If you’re passionate about technology, have a knack for creative ideas, and lead with a growth mindset, we want to hear from you. 

The Microsoft AI Design & Research team is a creative community of designers and researchers on a mission to create and deliver holistic customer experiences while imagining the future of web experiences. Between Copilot, Edge, Bing, and apps, we’re creating end-to-end web experiences from shopping, to search, to ads, news, sports, and gaming. Our diverse team works collaboratively to create products and ideas that empower us to move fast to build seamless and delightful experiences for billions of customers worldwide. Join us!   

We are seeking a Principal UX Research Manager to help us set the path for our next generation of AI-powered products. We are looking for a “player coach” who will contribute both as an IC and people manager. Someone who can move themselves and their team between exploratory, generative research to rapid evaluations of prototyped ideas. Someone who works across organizational roles to uncover the unspoken questions and beliefs and answers them with precision, detail, and durability. Someone who always puts people first and centers their needs, problems, goals, and aspirations for the team. Someone who is energized by direct, tangible product impact. Someone who leads with humility, by example, and is always pushing the team further with their full support. If this sounds like you, please apply!



Responsibilities
 
  • Lead a team of UX Researchers creating clarity, generating energy and delivering results
  • Understand the behaviors, motivations, needs, and aspirations of our customers to create a differentiated advantage in our ability to build relevant and impactful experiences for people across the world 
  • Drive product strategy through rigorous programs of multi-stage research executed to the highest standards
  • Balance rigor with scrappiness and the ability to push with a fast-moving team
  • Drive cross-team collaborations among all disciplines from early product stages to final implementations
  • Guide teams in creative new directions and help set ambitious goals that stand out from the crowd 
  • Identify new opportunities and generate innovative ideas to improve our processes, culture, and influence our approach to research (e.g. mindsets, methodologies)
  • Lead research on highly visible products or set of business initiatives with notable risk and complexity 
  • Regularly influence at the highest levels of organizations
  • Elevate the research craft of the team
  • Elevate and accelerate the team’s adoption of the thoughtful application of AI to our workflows, including coding by team members
  • Create an environment where people can do their best work and grow
  • Embody our culture and values 


Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

  • Doctorate in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 5+ years user experience research experience and/or product development experience or related experience in research
    • OR Master’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 6+ years user experience research experience and/or product development experience or related experience in research
    • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Computer Science, Technical Communications, Information Science, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Behavioral Science, Social Sciences, or related field AND 8+ years user experience research and/or product development experience or related experience in research
    • OR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years people management experience
  • 8+ years experience working in UX research or a related field
  • High level research skills across methods, qualitative and quantitative (i.e. a Mixed Methods researcher)
  • Excellent communication and presentation / storytelling skills, with the ability to energize and activate teams
  • Demonstrated championing of fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility and inclusive design
  • Experience with commonly used research tools, specifically AI-powered research tools  


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Responsibilities

ML / Modeling Leadership

  • Lead the end-to-end development of large-scale CTR and other user response signal models for Search and Display ads.
  • Design, prototype, and ship cutting-edge ML architectures (deep models, multi-task, transformer-based, LLM-assisted, multimodal).
  • Define long-term modeling strategy and roadmap with clear business impact.

Technical & Engineering Execution

  • Modernize our current modeling pipelines, addressing critical technical debt in data flows, training pipelines, and inference systems.
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to improve reliability, monitoring, and performance of distributed training and online serving.
  • Introduce best practices for experiment design, ablations, feature validation, and productionization.

Business & Product Impact

  • Work with PMs, monetization teams, and auction experts to translate business needs into modeling goals.
  • Own model performance holistically: quality, stability, latency, and revenue impact.
  • Develop frameworks to better understand advertiser value, user behavior, and marketplace dynamics.

Leadership & Mentorship

  • Mentor and up-level applied scientists and ML engineers across the organization.
  • Drive a culture of curiosity, deep system understanding, and high-quality scientific reasoning.
  • Improve collaboration norms, documentation quality, and cross-team alignment.

Innovation & Tooling

  • Leverage and influence LLM-based tooling (e.g., agents, copilots) to improve team productivity and model development velocity.
  • Identify opportunities to incorporate new modeling signals, architectures, or evaluation metrics.


Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years experience creating publications (e.g., patents, libraries, peer-reviewed academic papers).
  • 2+ years experience presenting at conferences or other events in the outside research/industry community as an invited speaker.
  • 5+ years experience conducting research as part of a research program (in academic or industry settings).
  • 3+ years experience developing and deploying live production systems, as part of a product team.
  • 3+ years experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle from ideation to shipping.


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Help reinvent how advertising outcomes are measured in the AI era. You’ll join Microsoft Advertising in building the always-on measurement foundations that power performance, trust, and optimization at global scale. You’ll work on systems that transform raw conversion events into actionable attribution signals—so advertisers can understand what worked, what didn’t, and how to improve as customer journeys evolve.

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Responsibilities
  • Collaborates with engineering, product, and data partners to define requirements for conversion measurement and attribution scenarios, including latency and correctness goals.
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  • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following operational playbooks.
  • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.


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Preferred Qualifications:

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    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience with streaming / near real-time processing and data pipeline reliability patterns (SLOs/SLAs, backpressure, late events, idempotency).
  • Experience with ads measurement / conversion tracking / attribution systems, and familiarity with privacy- and compliance-aware handling of measurement/telemetry data evolves in the era of AI.


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We have an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the software that people use most: the browser. Every day, billions of people open a browser because they want something. They want to buy something, learn something, get something done, figure something out. The browser is where intent becomes action.

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Responsibilities
  • Own the AI-native product strategy for Microsoft Edge, defining how AI collapses the distance between what people want and what they can accomplish — across research, tasks, decisions, and everything else people bring to their browser.
  • Invent on behalf of billions of users: form solid, well-reasoned convictions about what people need before they can articulate it themselves, and build toward that vision.
  • Turn frontier AI capabilities into experiences customers actually want to use, not demos that impress in a conference room and disappear six months later.
  • Run fast, hypothesis-driven experimentation cycles across new AI interaction patterns and UI flows; let real usage data sharpen your convictions.
  • Partner with research teams to identify model advances with real customer value and move them from research to shipped product.
  • Work with data science and growth teams to ensure AI-powered features reach and retain the users who need them most.
  • Set clear direction in ambiguous spaces, make tradeoffs visible to leadership, and drive alignment across partner teams.
  • Operate as a senior IC: coach PMs on adjacent workstreams, unblock critical path items, and hold a high bar for what “done” means.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years shipping consumer products at meaningful scale.
  • 3+ years building products with large language models, agentic AI, or similar frontier AI technologies.
  • You have built a product from 0 to launch with your own hands. Not contributed to someone else’s initiative — owned it, defined the scope, recruited the help, made the calls, and shipped it.
  • A track record of turning complex, ambiguous technical capabilities into products customers love and return to.
  • Ability to lead and align multiple teams through long, cross-functional delivery cycles.
  • Solid product intuition and the conviction to act on it, even when the data is incomplete.
  • Familiarity with prompting patterns, RAG, agentic frameworks, or eval-based quality measurement.
  • Experience with browser technologies, web platform, or Chromium-based products.
  • A genuine interest in emerging AI research and a habit of thinking beyond established playbooks.
  • Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams.


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Join Microsoft AI’s Copilot Discover Engineering Team as a Principal Software Engineer, serving as a senior technical architect to play a central role in the technical direction and long‑range architecture of Copilot Discover. This is a role emphasizing true end‑to‑end responsibility: setting the architectural vision, shaping the platform for AI‑forward discovery experiences, and steering the evolution of product experiences that sit at the heart of how users engage with the intersection of knowledge, content, and personalization on surfaces on which Copilot shows up.

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You’ll be expected to influence platform direction across multiple teams and adjacent organizations. You will ensure that the MSN and Copilot Discover systems are robust, scalable, privacy‑respecting, and engineered for long-term adaptation. High product sense is a success factor – how you drive product and architectural convergence across today’s fragmented surfaces, reduce complexity, and shape a consistent platform model is key to the success of the product and this role.

Copilot Discover sits at the intersection of content, signals, and user intent. Our ambition is to make it a durable, strategic layer that powers intelligent, personalized, and trusted discovery experiences across a broad array of surfaces where Microsoft engages consumers in their journeys. If you are passionate about building high-scale, AI-driven systems that combine solid architectural rigor with meaningful user value, this is the role for you.

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Responsibilities
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  • Partner with product, design, data science, and engineering leaders to translate business and user needs into executable architectural plans, well-documented designs, and multi-year roadmaps
  • Set and govern architectural decisions across multiple services and teams, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, reliable, cost-efficient, and grounded in data, telemetry and operational excellence.
  • Raise the technical bar across the organization by establishing flasifible principles, reviewing critical designs, and helping to develop technical leaders within the team.
  • Establish and evolve quality and reliability standards, including test strategies, CI/CD practices, monitoring, alerting, and live-site health.
  • Shape the adoption of AI/ML techniques for content understanding, personalization, summarization, and safety, in close collaboration with MAI and partner teams.
  • Serve as a cross-org technical leader, aligning MSN architecture with Bing, Copilot, Ads, Privacy, Trust, and other Microsoft platforms.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in ML/AI systems, especially in content understanding, ranking, or personalization.
  • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, including data pipelines, microservices, APIs, and storage systems.
  • Experience with content platforms, personalization systems, or consumer-facing services at scale.
  • Experience with technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, columnar storage, data modeling, and schema evolution.
  • Demonstrated success as a technical lead or architect, influencing across teams without direct authority.
  • Solid understanding of system architecture, performance tuning, telemetry design, and operational excellence.
  • Experience in ML/AI systems, especially in content understanding, ranking, or personalization.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts.
  • Solid cross-organizational collaboration skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

 


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Product Design
Overview

Microsoft Superintelligence team’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.
This role is part of Microsoft AI’s Superintelligence Team. The MAIST is a startup-like team inside Microsoft AI, created to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence — ultra-capable systems that remain controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanity remains firmly in control. We aim to deliver breakthroughs that benefit society — advancing science, education, and global well-being.
We are looking for a design leader who is obsessed with how AI feels — not just how it looks. You’ll own the end-to-end design quality of our model’s personality, tone, and user-facing experiences across MM Labs, Playground, marketing surfaces, and model personality specification. This is a player-coach role: you’ll spend roughly 80% of your time doing hands-on IC work (model personality design, UX prototyping, interaction design) and 20% coaching and growing a small team of model and UX designers.Your team includes model designers with linguistics backgrounds who shape how the model speaks, responds, and behaves — and UX designers who translate that into product surfaces. You set the creative bar for both disciplines. The right person for this role has exceptional design taste and craft, a deep intuition for language and personality, and the drive to personally produce work that sets the standard for the team.
This is a small team where everyone builds. There is no room for armchair leadership — you will be in the work daily, reviewing SFT data quality alongside your model designers, critiquing interaction flows with your UX designers, and prototyping experiences yourself. You will ship regularly, and your work will directly shape how millions of people experience our AI.



Responsibilities

 

  • Own the creative vision for model experience: Define and evolve how our AI models look, feel, speak, and interact across all surfaces — establishing a coherent design language that spans personality, tone, visual design, and interaction patterns.
  • Do the work yourself: Personally produce high-quality IC output — whether that’s crafting model personality specifications, designing interaction prototypes, defining prompt taxonomies, or building evaluation frameworks for response quality. You lead by example.
  • Shape model personality and tone: Work directly with model researchers to define and refine the model’s character, voice, and communication style. Translate abstract personality goals into concrete SFT data strategy, quality rubrics, and evaluation criteria.
  • Drive UX for key product surfaces: Own the experience design for MM Labs, Playground, marketing pages, and model specification tools. Ensure every surface reflects world-class design craft and a deep understanding of how users interact with AI.
  • Coach and grow a small team: Manage 4-5 direct reports across model design and UX design. Set direction, run rigorous critiques, unblock your team, and raise the quality bar — while keeping your own hands in the work.
  • Bridge linguistics and design: Serve as the connective tissue between model behavior (how the model responds) and product experience (how users perceive and interact with those responses). Ensure linguistic quality and design craft reinforce each other.
  • Partner across research and engineering: Collaborate closely with model researchers, product managers, and engineers to influence model training priorities, evaluation rubrics, and user-facing capabilities from the earliest stages of development.
  • Build evaluation systems for design quality: Define what “good” looks like for model personality and UX. Build rubrics, run evaluations, and create feedback loops that connect user experience insights back to model training.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Communication Design, Linguistics, or related field AND 8+ years experience in product design, experience design, or a related creative discipline
  • OR Master’s Degree in a related field AND 6+ years experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated track record of shipping design work that shaped product identity and user experience)
  • 2+ years of experience managing or mentoring designers, with a strong preference for player-coach roles where you remained deeply hands-on
  • A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft in interaction design, visual design, or content/personality design — with evidence of personal IC contribution, not just direction-setting
  • Experience designing for AI, LLM, or conversational systems — or a demonstrated deep understanding of how language, tone, and personality affect user trust and experience
  • Comfort working across disciplines: you can review SFT data quality with a linguist in the morning and critique a Figma prototype in the afternoon
  • Track record of shipping products end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you owned both the vision and the details


Product Design M6 – 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:
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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Senior Director, Design – Model Experience Senior Director, Design – Model Experience

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Mountain View, United States
Job Number
200034769-en-2
City
Mountain View
Team
Microsoft Superintelligence
Country
United States
Discipline
Product Design
Overview

Microsoft Superintelligence team’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.
This role is part of Microsoft AI’s Superintelligence Team. The MAIST is a startup-like team inside Microsoft AI, created to push the boundaries of AI toward Humanist Superintelligence — ultra-capable systems that remain controllable, safety-aligned, and anchored to human values. Our mission is to create AI that amplifies human potential while ensuring humanity remains firmly in control. We aim to deliver breakthroughs that benefit society — advancing science, education, and global well-being.
We are looking for a design leader who is obsessed with how AI feels — not just how it looks. You’ll own the end-to-end design quality of our model’s personality, tone, and user-facing experiences across MM Labs, Playground, marketing surfaces, and model personality specification. This is a player-coach role: you’ll spend roughly 80% of your time doing hands-on IC work (model personality design, UX prototyping, interaction design) and 20% coaching and growing a small team of model and UX designers.Your team includes model designers with linguistics backgrounds who shape how the model speaks, responds, and behaves — and UX designers who translate that into product surfaces. You set the creative bar for both disciplines. The right person for this role has exceptional design taste and craft, a deep intuition for language and personality, and the drive to personally produce work that sets the standard for the team.
This is a small team where everyone builds. There is no room for armchair leadership — you will be in the work daily, reviewing SFT data quality alongside your model designers, critiquing interaction flows with your UX designers, and prototyping experiences yourself. You will ship regularly, and your work will directly shape how millions of people experience our AI.



Responsibilities

 

  • Own the creative vision for model experience: Define and evolve how our AI models look, feel, speak, and interact across all surfaces — establishing a coherent design language that spans personality, tone, visual design, and interaction patterns.
  • Do the work yourself: Personally produce high-quality IC output — whether that’s crafting model personality specifications, designing interaction prototypes, defining prompt taxonomies, or building evaluation frameworks for response quality. You lead by example.
  • Shape model personality and tone: Work directly with model researchers to define and refine the model’s character, voice, and communication style. Translate abstract personality goals into concrete SFT data strategy, quality rubrics, and evaluation criteria.
  • Drive UX for key product surfaces: Own the experience design for MM Labs, Playground, marketing pages, and model specification tools. Ensure every surface reflects world-class design craft and a deep understanding of how users interact with AI.
  • Coach and grow a small team: Manage 4-5 direct reports across model design and UX design. Set direction, run rigorous critiques, unblock your team, and raise the quality bar — while keeping your own hands in the work.
  • Bridge linguistics and design: Serve as the connective tissue between model behavior (how the model responds) and product experience (how users perceive and interact with those responses). Ensure linguistic quality and design craft reinforce each other.
  • Partner across research and engineering: Collaborate closely with model researchers, product managers, and engineers to influence model training priorities, evaluation rubrics, and user-facing capabilities from the earliest stages of development.
  • Build evaluation systems for design quality: Define what “good” looks like for model personality and UX. Build rubrics, run evaluations, and create feedback loops that connect user experience insights back to model training.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Communication Design, Linguistics, or related field AND 8+ years experience in product design, experience design, or a related creative discipline
  • OR Master’s Degree in a related field AND 6+ years experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated track record of shipping design work that shaped product identity and user experience)
  • 2+ years of experience managing or mentoring designers, with a strong preference for player-coach roles where you remained deeply hands-on
  • A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft in interaction design, visual design, or content/personality design — with evidence of personal IC contribution, not just direction-setting
  • Experience designing for AI, LLM, or conversational systems — or a demonstrated deep understanding of how language, tone, and personality affect user trust and experience
  • Comfort working across disciplines: you can review SFT data quality with a linguist in the morning and critique a Figma prototype in the afternoon
  • Track record of shipping products end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you owned both the vision and the details


Product Design M6 – 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:
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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Job Number
200034981-en-1
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Monetization
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MSN is one of the largest content properties on the internet, reaching hundreds of millions of users across Windows, Edge, Copilot, and the open web. As we move towards an agentic future, we are rethinking our ad formats, diversifying our demand mix, building new sponsorship and branded content products, and strengthening the supply quality. 

We’re looking for a senior product leader to own this transformation end to end. You will be the single accountable person for MSN monetization strategy, product development, and revenue performance. You’ll work across engineering, sales, leadership, and finance to ship products that grow the business while improving the user experience. 

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.



Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the MSN monetization strategy across our suite of premium brand products, sponsorship, and new measurement capabilities.
  • Partner with finance to build credible forecasts and track delivery against plan. e.g. Identify and close gaps before they become surprises, etc.
  • Partner with MSN editorial leadership to align the commercial strategy with the editorial direction. 
  • Coordinate across engineering teams to sequence the technical investments (ad serving, data infrastructure, format development) against the commercial roadmap.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in ad monetization, ad product management, or platform economics, with at least 5 years in a senior or leadership role.
  • Deep understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem.
  • Experience building and shipping premium ad products (sponsorships, branded content, high-impact placements) and working with sales teams to bring them to market.
  • Demonstrated ability to own a revenue target and deliver against it. You’re comfortable presenting financial performance to senior leadership and making real-time tradeoffs between short-term yield and long-term positioning.
  • Track record of operating independently across multiple teams (engineering, sales, editorial, finance) without needing someone else to broker alignment for you.
  • Solid product sense for ad formats and user experience.
  • Experience at a large-scale content or media platform (news, video, social, or aggregation) where you’ve dealt with the specific dynamics of editorial trust, ad quality perception, and brand safety.
  • Familiarity with audience data infrastructure: identity resolution, match rates, first-party data activation, and privacy-compliant targeting at scale.
  • Experience managing through a platform transition (e.g., migrating ad products across surface redesigns, consolidating demand across legacy and new experiences).
  • Exposure to gaming monetization, video ad products, or cross-surface attribution.


#MicrosoftAI 



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:
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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Discipline
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Overview

MSN is one of the largest content properties on the internet, reaching hundreds of millions of users across Windows, Edge, Copilot, and the open web. As we move towards an agentic future, we are rethinking our ad formats, diversifying our demand mix, building new sponsorship and branded content products, and strengthening the supply quality. 

We’re looking for a senior product leader to own this transformation end to end. You will be the single accountable person for MSN monetization strategy, product development, and revenue performance. You’ll work across engineering, sales, leadership, and finance to ship products that grow the business while improving the user experience. 

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.  

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.



Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the MSN monetization strategy across our suite of premium brand products, sponsorship, and new measurement capabilities.
  • Partner with finance to build credible forecasts and track delivery against plan. e.g. Identify and close gaps before they become surprises, etc.
  • Partner with MSN editorial leadership to align the commercial strategy with the editorial direction. 
  • Coordinate across engineering teams to sequence the technical investments (ad serving, data infrastructure, format development) against the commercial roadmap.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 15+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in ad monetization, ad product management, or platform economics, with at least 5 years in a senior or leadership role.
  • Deep understanding of the programmatic advertising ecosystem.
  • Experience building and shipping premium ad products (sponsorships, branded content, high-impact placements) and working with sales teams to bring them to market.
  • Demonstrated ability to own a revenue target and deliver against it. You’re comfortable presenting financial performance to senior leadership and making real-time tradeoffs between short-term yield and long-term positioning.
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  • Exposure to gaming monetization, video ad products, or cross-surface attribution.


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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:
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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