Principal Product Manager

8 years

5 - 10 Lacs

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Job Description

Principal Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India


Date posted
Oct 12, 2025
Job number
1891571
Work site
0 days / week in-office - remote
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Product Management
Discipline
Product Management
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Azure Core builds the foundational substrate for Azure across compute, storage, networking, management, and resilience. Teams focus on platform quality, availability, capacity, efficiency, and customer-facing control planes that are highly reliable and scalable.

Azure Core – BCDR delivers end-to-end protection and recovery for IaaS, databases, and cloud-native services, with investments and roadmaps covering backup, site recovery, cross-region/zonal resiliency, ransomware recovery, and at-scale management. The team partners across Azure Core and with field/customer teams to raise the resiliency baseline and provide single-pane management experiences. As a Principal Product Manager, you will own and drive the vision, strategy, and execution for major areas within the Azure BCDR customer problem space. You will lead cross-functional teams to define and deliver resilient, compliant, and innovative experiences, influencing both product direction and organizational culture. You will be responsible for setting direction, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring delivery of high-impact solutions that meet customer and regulatory needs at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of product/program management (or related) experience AND a Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/Math or equivalent.
  • Proven track record of shipping cloud platform or enterprise features end-to-end (backlog PRD delivery) with engineering/design and measurable customer impact.
  • Deep expertise in BCDR or reliability concepts (e.g., RTO/RPO, test failover, cross-zone/region patterns) and ability to translate them into customer experiences and documentation.
  • Demonstrated strategic thinking, data-driven decision making (telemetry/experiments, field/customer feedback), and exceptional written and verbal communication. Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing without authority.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • 1+ year(s) experience with Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, or adjacent resiliency experiences.
  • 1+ year(s) exposure to security & ransomware recovery concepts (immutability, cleanroom recovery, threat-informed restores).
  • 1+ year(s) hands-on with IaaS/AKS/Database scenarios or platform services requiring high availability and disaster recovery.
  • 1+ year(s) experience collaborating across Compute/Storage/Networking/Security platform teams and with field/customer stakeholders.

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Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the strategic roadmap for BCDR, identifying and prioritising key customer problem areas and opportunities for innovation.
  • Lead the development of clear PRDs, OKRs, and roadmaps aligned to Azure Core quality and resiliency goals.
  • Translate complex customer and regulatory requirements (e.g., RTO/RPO, test failover, evidence) into platform features and guidance, collaborating across product groups and stakeholders.
  • Drive end-to-end scenario design for backup, restore, replication, and recovery—including cross-zone/region patterns—and validate with telemetry, experiments, and customer previews.
  • Partner with engineering to plan, deliver, and safely roll out features using Azure Core safe-deployment practices; ensure SLI/SLO definitions and instrumentation support customer outcomes.
  • Champion the landing of products with customers and field: develop content, demos, and best-practice guidance aligned to the Well-Architected reliability pillar and BCDR essentials.
  • Mentor and develop PM craft within the team: foster crisp writing, storyboarding, data-informed decisions, and inclusive collaboration. Represent BCDR in executive and cross-org forums, influencing strategy and investment decisions.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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