Microsoft · 4 hours ago
Senior Principal Technical Program Manager
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering individuals and organizations. They are seeking a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager to lead cross-company efforts and drive AI initiatives, partnering closely with senior leaders to shape and execute complex technical strategies.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Help set direction on big technical bets by framing messy, ambiguous problems, figuring out what’s worth exploring, and guiding early validation work across multiple teams
Keep a wide, practical view of the technical landscape — across Microsoft and the broader ecosystem — to spot real risks, emerging opportunities, and meaningful shifts in AI that leadership should pay attention to
Bring together signals from research, industry, and internal work to influence where Microsoft invests, what we prioritize, and how we think about longterm product and platform direction
Lead crosscompany efforts where alignment is the hard part, working with senior engineering and product leaders to agree on goals, tradeoffs, and how success will be measured — and putting lightweight structure in place so work actually moves
Act as a trusted technical sounding board for the CTO and Senior Leaders, turning complex topics into clear narratives, decision briefs, and reading syntheses that help leaders understand what matters and what to do next
Turn research and technical insight into guidance teams can actually use, whether that’s strategic direction, architectural recommendations, or targeted experimentation to answer the right questions
Remove friction that slows adoption of strategic technologies, by identifying systemic blockers, influencing norms and incentives, and helping teams translate strategy into day-to-day execution
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
10+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos)
Track record of developing and launching successful AI products
Foundation in AI technical skills, such as understanding Machine Learning (ML)/Reinforcement Learning (RL), AI models, building AI services or products, as well as AI infrastructure, compute, hardware, and optimization
Possess analytical acumen, vigilant adaptability, and critical architect design for assessing AI infrastructure, hardware, compute capability, services and tooling to enable acceleration of our bold AI ambitions
Demonstrated history of engineering and product expertise with experience building AI services or products for customers and launching them to solve high value problems
Ability to handle high ambiguity, drive clarity, and identify/prioritize issues and opportunities among a wide variety of Stakeholders
Ability to communicate thoughts both verbally and in written form at the appropriate level of abstraction in a clear/crisp manner to Senior Leaders, including ability to escalate appropriately where needed
Be able to lead through influence, work across teams at scale, and feel confident engaging with Executives
Ability to earn a high level of trust by working collaboratively and helping others be successful. Our success is the success of partners and collaborators
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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Funding
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