Principal Product Manager - Publisher Content Marketplace

Overview

We’re building a first-of-its-kind Content Marketplace that connects AI builders (LLMs, copilots, chatbots, enterprise AI apps) with high-quality content and data sources in real time. The marketplace enables LLMs to ground their responses in fresh, authoritative, and diverse content while ensuring publishers and creators are fairly rewarded.

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager - Publisher Content Marketplace - to own and represent the needs of our AI consumers — from large model providers to independent builders. You will define how AI systems access, value, and pay for grounding content, and ensure that marketplace pricing, policies, and performance are shaped by measurable demand-side outcomes.

This role sits at the intersection of product, economics, and experimentation - ideal for a PM who enjoys building 0 to 1, is a self-starter and thrives in ambiguity.

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Responsibilities

• Represent AI builder needs
  • Act as the voice of AI builders in marketplace design - ensure the platform supports a wide range of grounding use cases (chatbots, copilots, enterprise bots, search models, etc.).
  • Collaborate closely with Business Development (BD) and partnership teams during demand-side negotiations to translate customer requirements into product and pricing features.
  • Define and evolve access tiers, usage models, and APIs that meet enterprise and model-builder needs for quality, latency, and transparency.
• Define Grounding Value metrics
  • Work with data science and applied research teams to define quantitative measures of grounding quality (e.g., accuracy uplift, hallucination reduction, factual recall, response satisfaction).
  • Partner with supply PMs to translate these into value signals that inform payout to content providers.
• Design and Lead Experiments
  • Drive the experiment roadmap for understanding grounding & content value, partnering with engineering and applied science teams to progress on the road to true price discovery over time.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Deep familiarity with LLM grounding, RAG systems, or data retrieval APIs.
• Solid analytical and experimental mindset — experience running A/B or cluster experiments, defining metrics, and interpreting results.
• Background in economics, data science, or applied experimentation (e.g., causal inference, pricing models, or marketplace dynamics).
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, BD, and research functions.
• Excellent communication — able to translate technical and economic concepts into executive language.
• Drive industry partnerships, advocate for publisher interests, define common interoperability standards, and work with forums and alliances to make AI content usage scalable and sustainable.

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Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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.

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