Principal AI Product Manager, Minecraft

Responsibilities

• Lead product execution for AI innovation initiatives across Mojang Studios.
• Own executive-level communication for AI projects, incubation work, opportunities, risks, and progress.
• Partner closely with GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft AI teams, engineering, product, and studio stakeholders to bring relevant AI capabilities into Mojang workflows.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring AI initiatives are clearly framed, responsibly scoped, and connected to measurable studio outcomes.
• Help define, prioritize, and deliver internal AI tooling that improves studio efficiency, creativity, and operational effectiveness.
• Support AI education and training programs for both technical and non-technical employees.
• Lead change management efforts that help teams adopt new AI tools, workflows, and practices with confidence.
• Own or coordinate the technical setup, access, and management of AI hardware and incubation environments.
• Stay current on AI industry trends, emerging models, tooling, developer workflows, and enterprise adoption patterns.
• Operate with high autonomy in ambiguous spaces, turning emerging technology opportunities into practical plans, prototypes, and shipped outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
• Prioritized experience:
  • 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years experience improving product, adoption, usage, efficiency, or business metrics for a product, feature, platform or internal tool.
  • 6+ years experience disrupting, transforming, or modernizing a product area, workflow, market, or internal operating model through new technology.
  • 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market, including internal tools, platforms, frameworks, or incubation products.
  • 3+ years experience working with AI, ML, developer tooling, platform products, emerging technologies, or technically complex product areas.
  • 3+ years experience driving cross-functional stakeholder alignment, executive communication, or change management for new technology adoption.
  • Proven technical fluency in AI tools, models, systems, AI-assisted development workflows, and current industry trends.
  • Ability to translate complex technical AI concepts into business value for executives, engineering teams, and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience partnering with engineering, data science, research, product, and external partner teams to define, prototype, launch, and scale AI-powered solutions.
  • Stakeholder management skills across leadership, technical teams, and cross-functional partners.
  • Demonstrated ability to educate and enable both technical and non-technical audiences on new technologies.
  • Experience operating in ambiguous, fast-moving, innovation-oriented environments.
  • Experience in a prior technical role, such as software engineering, data science, applied AI, technical program management, or technical product management.
  • Hands-on experience building, launching, or scaling AI-powered products, internal tools, prototypes, or incubation efforts.
  • Experience with GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, model evaluation, developer productivity, or internal AI platforms.
  • Experience managing technical incubation environments, AI hardware, compute access, model access, or experimentation infrastructure.
  • Executive storytelling, written communication, and product strategy skills.
  • High-trust, high-autonomy ownership style with transparent communication and bias for action.