Senior Technical Program Manager

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The E+D Growth Team's role is to help grow our user and customer base so we can fulfill Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We do this through Product-Led Growth motions that we develop, facilitate, and partner with teams throughout Microsoft to deliver so we can bring more of Microsoft's software - across Microsoft 365, Windows, and elsewhere - to more users and convert those users into customers. We work with every segment of the market including consumers and businesses of all sizes, helping to facilitate improved engagement, retention, and acquisition for the wide array of products inside of the Experiences and Devices organization.

Deliver complex AI-powered experiences at global scale.
The E+D Growth team is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive high-impact initiatives at the heart of Microsoft's most transformative products: Copilot and M365.

In this role, you will lead the orchestration of complex, AI-powered, cross-platform experiences that reach hundreds of millions of users worldwide. You will partner deeply with engineering, data science, research, and infrastructure teams — managing technical dependencies, mitigating risks, and ensuring high-quality, scalable execution.

You’ll bring both technical rigor and program leadership excellence to accelerate innovation, operationalize experimentation, and deliver seamless user experiences built on cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Strong technical depth and fluency in architecture, system design, APIs, experimentation platforms, or AI/ML service integration.
• Proven ability to manage cross-team technical projects with high ambiguity, tight timelines, and complex interdependencies.
• Familiarity with experimentation and metrics-based product development; able to partner with data teams on instrumentation and analytics.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills — you can engage engineers, PMs, researchers, and executives alike with clarity and technical credibility.
• Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements:
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 Qualifications:

• 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.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Experience in Technical Program/Product Management.
• Experience working with commerce or related systems.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to “cut through the noise” using data-driven decisions. Growth Mindset – a desire to learn, improve, and show persistence in the face of setbacks.
• Adept at change management and facilitating bringing TPM as a discipline to an engineering organization.
• Able to quickly bring calm and clarity to ambiguous and pressurized situations.
• Passion for customer-driven innovation and a growth mindset: always seeking better ways to deliver value, quality, and scale.

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• Manage large-scale, technical programs that integrate AI/ML services, platform capabilities, and user experiences across Windows, Office, and the Microsoft ecosystem.
• Build detailed technical execution plans, identify critical paths and system dependencies, and drive alignment across multiple engineering teams.
• Translate product vision and strategy into actionable technical workstreams, ensuring delivery at scale and with quality.
• Lead complex launches and experiments, ensuring technical feasibility, risk mitigation, and operational readiness at each stage.
• Deeply engage with engineering, AI platform, and data teams to optimize technical solutions and system architectures that support rapid growth and world-class customer experiences.
• Establish and drive best practices in program management, experimentation frameworks, and operational excellence.