Microsoft · 20 hours ago
Principal Technical Program Manager
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering individuals and organizations. They are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead complex initiatives that drive technical strategy and execution across the organization, particularly in the area of Artificial Intelligence.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Partner with engineering teams to validate ideas through prototyping and experimentation
Stay closely engaged with a wide range of services, platforms, frameworks, and hardware - across Microsoft, competitors, open source, and startups - to identify and prioritize top issues and opportunities in AI
Monitor internal and external research to surface cutting-edge investments and productization opportunities that advance Microsoft’s technical differentiation
Drive cross-organizational projects that align teams around a shared strategic vision. Partner with engineering leaders to evolve Microsoft’s culture of AI innovation through evidence-based practices
Develop technical reading materials for the CTO and senior engineering leaders, including summaries, highlighted focus areas, and prioritized reading sequences. Source materials may include academic research, business media, consultancy reports, internal white papers, demos, prototypes, and expert commentary
Deliver a range of research-based recommendations - from directional guidance and technical proposals to direct prototyping - tailored to the topic, scope, and complexity
Champion technical enablement by identifying and removing barriers to adoption of strategic technologies across engineering teams, ensuring alignment between strategy and execution
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
3+ 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 12+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
8+ 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
Company
Microsoft
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