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10 Microsoft product leaders
These ten Microsoft product leaders currently hold director-level and higher product roles at Microsoft, including a vice president of product management, heads of product and senior directors. A reader can learn how Microsoft runs product management in areas such as Windows, Copilot, Azure AI, Azure DevOps and payments.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abhay Rijhwani
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management · Microsoft
Senior Director of Product Management at Microsoft since September 2025, following Director of Product Management, Microsoft Payments (2021–2025) and Senior Product Manager, Global Payments (2016–2021) at Microsoft. The profile says Abhay Rijhwani leads Microsoft's global payments and fraud prevention platform, with a charter to drive revenue growth for each Microsoft business group by improving conversion funnels.
Carl Mekala
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product · Microsoft
Head of Product at Microsoft since 2021, following Principal PM Manager at Microsoft (2019–2021). The profile says Carl Mekala is part of the Product Leadership Team at Microsoft and manages a global team of product managers building Microsoft Copilot, including the 'Researcher' agent. Carl Mekala held Product Management roles at Amazon from 2015 to 2019.
Jatinder Mann
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Product Management, Windows · Microsoft
Vice President of Product Management, Windows at Microsoft since 2026, following Partner Director of Product, Windows (2024–2026) and Partner Group Product Manager, Microsoft Edge (2018–2024) at Microsoft. The profile describes the role as product leader for the Windows Platform & Developer organization. Jatinder Mann also held Principal PM Manager, Web Platform (2014–2018) and Senior PM Manager, Internet Explorer (2008–2014) roles at Microsoft.
Jeff Hollan
LinkedInExperience: Partner Director of Product - Head of Agent Service · Microsoft
Partner Director of Product - Head of Agent Service at Microsoft since 2026, where the profile says Jeff Hollan leads the Microsoft Foundry Agent efforts, including Agent Service. Jeff Hollan was Director of Product - Azure Serverless and PaaS Apps at Microsoft (2021–2022) and held Director of Product roles at Snowflake from 2022 to 2026, covering Snowpark and Cortex AI Agents & Apps.
Kevin M. Carter
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Microsoft
Director of Product Management at Microsoft since April 2026, following a Director of Product Management role at Microsoft from 2023 to 2026 and Partner Group Product Manager there (2021–2023). The profile says Kevin M. Carter leads product management for a new organization applying AI to how engineering operations run in Azure, spanning customer-facing guidance and the internal systems of Microsoft's own engineering and support teams.
Mihai Popa
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management AI - Copilot for Windows · Microsoft
Director of Product Management AI - Copilot for Windows at Microsoft since September 2025, following Director of Product Management Authentication at Microsoft (2022–2025). The profile describes a focus on driving product innovation within the Identity & Network Access Division and developing cloud-based solutions for security and scalability. Mihai Popa was Group Engineering Manager Lending at ING (2021–2022).
Nitin Nagarkatte
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Product Management (Azure AI) · Microsoft
Senior Director of Product Management (Azure AI) at Microsoft since August 2026; the profile says the role involves growing the AI product management function at Microsoft Azure to define and build the next generation of AI compute and networking. Nitin Nagarkatte also lists Director of Product Management (Azure AI) at Microsoft since 2025 and Product Management Lead (AI ML Acceleration) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from 2021 to 2024.
Rajesh Ramamurthy
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product - Azure DevOps · Microsoft
Head of Product - Azure DevOps at Microsoft since November 2025; the profile says the role leads the evolution of Azure DevOps as the core engineering platform, balancing developer productivity with enterprise-grade security, reliability and governance. Rajesh Ramamurthy was Senior Director Principal Group Product Management - Core AI - Platform and Tools at Microsoft (2023–2025) and Senior Director of Product Management at GitHub (2022–2023).
Sandeep Srivastava
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product Management · Microsoft
Director of Product Management at Microsoft since 2022, following another Director of Product Management role there (2021–2022); the profile says Sandeep Srivastava leads product building and growth across Project, Planner, To Do and Visio. Sandeep Srivastava also held Director of Business and Strategy (2020–2022), Chief Of Staff (2017–2020) and Principal Product Manager Lead (2015–2017) roles at Microsoft.
SuiLin Yap
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product (Growth, Data Science, Operations) · Microsoft
Director of Product (Growth, Data Science, Operations) at Microsoft since 2025; the profile says SuiLin Yap leads product, growth, data strategy and initiatives for Microsoft's CoreAI organization. SuiLin Yap was Senior Director Head of Product Management, Strategy, Governance, Operations (Data & AI) at Warner Bros. Discovery (2022–2023) and Product Management Lead at Google (2019–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Choose the person whose product area is closest to your question, since operating systems, AI assistants, cloud platforms and payments are run in different ways. Weigh the level of the role as well: a vice president or head of product can speak to portfolio and organization choices, while a director is closer to roadmaps and day-to-day product decisions.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How are product priorities set and negotiated across teams in your area, and who makes the final call?
- 02How do you decide which metrics define success for a product, and how do those metrics change as the product matures?
- 03What does the path from an early prototype to a broad launch look like for a new feature in a product as large as yours?
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