About the role
Define and drive the long-term vision, strategy, roadmap, and platform investments for the Copilot Connectors. Establish a unified connector model that brings together indexed content, real-time data access, user-context retrieval, and agent-driven actions. Shape the end-to-end connector lifecycle, including development, validation, certification, publishing, deployment, discovery, configuration, monitoring, updating, and retirement. Define how connector capabilities are represented and packaged so customers can access knowledge, tools, and actions through a coherent experience rather than managing fragmented integrations. Simplify administrator experiences for connector deployment, application provisioning, authentication, permissions, synchronization, governance, health monitoring, and compliance. Establish platform contracts and architectural patterns for authentication, identity, permission enforcement, data synchronization, schema mapping, retrieval, tool invocation, and action execution. Define the strategy for hybrid connectors that combine tenant-level synchronization with real-time, user-authorized access and actions. Create intuitive, scalable developer experiences - including SDKs, APIs, tools, documentation, samples, and validation frameworks - for first-party teams, partners, independent software vendors, and enterprise developers. Partner with security, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI teams to ensure connectors are trustworthy, permission-aware, auditable, resilient, and appropriate for enterprise use. Define how connector data and tools are grounded, ranked, cited, and invoked so Copilot delivers relevant, accurate, and explainable outcomes. Drive platform capabilities for connector observability, diagnostics, reliability, throttling, freshness, quality measurement, and lifecycle management at hyperscale. Work closely with customers and partners to understand their highest-value systems and scenarios, identify adoption barriers, and translate insights into platform investments. Define success metrics across connector coverage, developer velocity, onboarding completion, reliability, content freshness, discovery, activation, usage, answer quality, and customer value. Build deep partnerships with senior technical leaders and executives to establish a shared vision for connecting Copilot and agents to enterprise systems. Mentor product managers and technical leaders while establishing solid product, architectural, and operational practices across the organization. Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development. These
