Christian Schacht

Principal Product Manager Lead, CMD Labs (Science & Innovation)

Greater Seattle Area

About

Passionate about recreating the meeting room experience with innovations for Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub to enable the Hybrid workplace.

Experience

  • Microsoft (14 yrs 6 mos)
    • Principal Product Manager Lead, CMD Labs (Science & Innovation)
      Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

      Product Manager supporting the Teams CMD Labs AI research program across Cambridge, Zurich & Tel Aviv. Working on Al for Microsoft Teams, including: LLMs, multimodal LLMs, computer vision, speech recognition, Al agents, synthetic data generation. Regularly shipping state of the art Al technology into various Microsoft products.

    • Principal Product Manager Lead
      Aug 2022 - Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Leading a Team of Product Managers for Microsoft Teams, including bring your own device (BYOD), Peripherals, Voice Isolation and AI scenarios for Copilot and speaker recognition for Teams Rooms(Intelligent Speaker) including Voice and Face enrollment across Teams. Formerly owned Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Panels with my team, including the onboarding of Cisco devices as Teams Rooms

    • Principal Product Manager
      Jun 2022 - Aug 2022 · 3 mos

  • Solution Designer / Infrastructure & Cloud Services at Siemens IT-Dienstleistung und Beartung GmbH
    Aug 1999 - Dec 2011 · 12 yrs 5 mos

    Solution Designer for Blackberry Enterpirse Services, Office Communications Server & Lync Server