AI Product Manager (contract)

About the role

Please note that this is a contract role providing services to Microsoft through external staffing partners of Allegis Global Solutions. If you are selected for this role, you will be employed by AGS and will not be an employee of Microsoft. We are seeking a technically oriented AI Product Manager to support the day-to-day delivery and operations of a business-critical enterprise application supporting cloud infrastructure and capacity deployment. This role will partner closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and product leadership to translate business needs into actionable product requirements and ensure features and operational improvements move successfully from requirements through development, testing, release, and production support. The successful candidate will provide hands-on ownership across business analysis, functional requirements, backlog management, testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production issue triage, incident coordination, and release communications. This position requires a strong technical foundation, excellent stakeholder management skills, and experience working across the end-to-end software development lifecycle. This is an onsite position in Redmond, WA, operating Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, document, and prioritize business and functional requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and actionable specifications for engineering teams.
• Manage feature requests and operational improvements throughout the software delivery lifecycle, including requirements, backlog tracking, development coordination, validation, UAT, sign-off, and production release.
• Maintain and prioritize product backlogs using Azure DevOps or similar work-item management platforms.
• Coordinate with software development teams to clarify requirements, track delivery progress, resolve blockers, and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Perform initial functional validation of new capabilities and enhancements in sandbox or test environments before business UAT.
• Plan and coordinate User Acceptance Testing, including test readiness, stakeholder participation, issue tracking, feedback documentation, and business sign-off.
• Provide day-to-day support for enterprise application users by triaging questions, investigating issues, coordinating troubleshooting, and driving problems through resolution.
• Monitor and coordinate production incidents, maintaining clear ownership, status communications, action tracking, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Support production deployments and prepare clear release communications to ensure business users understand newly delivered capabilities and changes.
• Maintain accurate records of requirements, backlog items