Haydn Richardson
Principal Product Manager, Fabric Growth at Microsoft
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolHaydn Richardson is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with a multi-decade background in product planning, go-to-market strategy, and launching large-scale software offerings such as SQL Server and Power BI. He specializes in driving usage growth and monetization for Microsoft Fabric, blending deep technical grounding from an MScEng in electrical engineering with decades of cross-functional product leadership. Haydn’s career spans hands-on engineering and global product strategy roles—from leading multidisciplinary teams at Creo to shaping enterprise cloud analytics at Microsoft—earning recognition like Microsoft’s Engineering Excellence award. Based in Richmond, BC, he pairs rigorous requirements and SKU planning experience with a talent for translating customer research into profitable roadmaps and measurable adoption outcomes. An uncommon strength is his longevity across product lifecycles, having shepherded Power BI from inception through successive releases, which gives him rare institutional knowledge of both product and market evolution.
7 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Science Centre Science SchoolReforge Growth Series - Retention & Engagement Deep DiveMScEng Electrical Engineering, MScEng Electrical Engineering at Queen's UniversityAlternative Scarborough Education 2 (ASE 2)
English, French
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Github Skills (5)
powerbi6
powerbi-embedded6
oms3
project-planning2
moqui1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
haydnr/powerbi-docs
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:9 pushes in 10 days
MicrosoftDocs/powerbi-docs
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
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