Principal Product Manager

About the role

What you'll do

• Own the product vision, strategy and roadmap for the Business Applications core data platform, with clear priorities and measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Set modernization priorities for data-platform reliability, scalability, extensibility and supported access patterns, including clear platform contracts and investment choices.
• Use customer research, partner input and product data to identify high-value business data scenarios and drive reusable platform capabilities.
• Set product requirements for availability, performance, observability, compatibility, administrator control and task completion across enterprise application and AI scenarios.
• Define how Dataverse, Finance & Operations and shared data-platform services work together across storage, integration, extensibility, application semantics and AI capabilities, with clear ownership boundaries.
• Own cross-platform governance policy and data-lifecycle strategy across Dataverse and Finance & Operations, including policy-based retention, archiving, safe deletion and recoverability; align domain product leads on the policies that administrator controls and self-service workflows implement.
• Shape storage economics and capacity-management strategy across the platform, including entitlement clarity, usage insights and predictable customer paths for sustained overages; balance customer outcomes, platform cost and sustainable growth.
• Partner with security, trust and governance leaders to incorporate identity, authorization, policy, audit and compliance into core data-platform capabilities and supported AI scenarios.
• Own commercial trade-offs and investment priorities for core platform capabilities, partnering with product economics and business-planning leaders on commercial models, pricing and packaging inputs, and evidence-based investment cases.
• Lead ecosystem strategy across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform product teams, Microsoft AI groups, independent software vendors and systems integrators; translate commitments into reusable data-platform capabilities and a prioritized engineering roadmap.
• Partner with domain product leads to connect core platform strategy with application-specific administration, migration, lifecycle, compliance readiness and customer outcomes, with particular attention to Finance & Operations scenarios.
• Define and review the scorecard for platform adoption, reliability, storage efficiency, ecosystem usage, supported AI scenario success and paid growth; use evidence to guide investment and deprecation decisions.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in product, service or program management or software development, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• 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).
• Experience leading product strategy for enterprise ERP, transaction platforms, developer platforms, or other mission-critical business systems.
• Technical understanding of enterprise data platforms, including storage architecture, data lifecycle, integration, extensibility, reliability, and operations at scale.
• Experience developing commercial models, ecosystem strategy, or partner programs for data or platform products.
• Experience with AI agents or comparable intelligent application patterns, including the product and safety considerations involved when software acts on structured business data.