Jacques Chamberland
Principal Product Manager - Ai & Search Platform Pm Architect @Microsoft
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Product Manager - Ai & Search Platform Pm Architect @Microsoft
Toronto, ON, CA
Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Windows Search Platform — the search infrastructure for File Explorer, Windows Search, Settings, Copilot, and Recall, reaching hundreds of millions of Windows devices. Lead AI model product management for a portfolio of on-device models across the full lifecycle: defining purpose, requirements, datasets, evaluation, compliance, and quality monitoring.Delivered the vector database and embedding pipelines powering Windows\' AI features, and launched Semantic Search to GA in March 2025 — the highest-engagement AI feature on Windows. Own App Content Search (ACS), a developer SDK bringing hybrid lexical and semantic search to Windows apps (currently in preview). Established the platform PM practice and cadences with partner teams; coach and mentor PMs.
EDUCATION
University of New Brunswick
BScEE, Computer Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT JACQUES CHAMBERLAND
AI product leader at Microsoft, owning the platform and on-device models powering Windows\' highest-engagement AI feature. Over the past two years I\'ve led the vector database and embedding pipelines behind those features and taken a set of on-device models through the full model lifecycle.I lead cross-functional teams and manage, coach, and mentor product managers. I stay close to the work by partnering directly with engineering and research — and still like to write code to validate ideas and my products.Equal parts platform thinker and experience designer. I build platforms and I design novel interactions at the intersection of hardware, software, and ML. Before Microsoft I co-founded and ran a venture-backed games studio, led a carrier-scale video platform at Cisco, and started my career as a real-time embedded software engineer at Nortel.20+ years shipping products used by billions.Areas: AI/ML product management · semantic search · embeddings · vector databases · RAG · on-device AI · agentic computing · platform PM · SDK & developer experience · cross-functional leadership · interaction design
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