Principal Technical Program Manager

The Microsoft Azure Compute Program Management (PM) team drives horizontal customer experiences across Azure Compute Services. We are looking for a seasoned Principal Technical Program Manager to drive cross-team development for platform level features that power our Virtual Machine (VM) business, working across teams that span the breadth of Azure. We focus on the platform services that power Azure Boost, Azure VM, Azure Cloud Services, etc. You will have an opportunity to become a part of a strategic and innovative team, with Microsoft-wide impact, while helping us take on competitors such as Amazon and Google.

We’re looking for people passionate about building highly performant and scalable platforms that can partner with engineering and product managers distilling down complexity to drive complex projects. This work is in large part about defining and evolving the technical foundation of Azure Virtual Machines and Networking. It requires technical experience and depth with complex projects, project management across cross-functional stakeholders, as well as strategic thinking and problem solving.

To succeed in this role, you should be passionate about the Compute and Networking space, possess technical and analytical skills, cross-group collaboration skills, and a passion for customers by thinking end-to-end about the solutions you are building. You should be a creative leader with superior analytical abilities, have a reliable track record of delivery in a services environment with a can-do attitude.

You will be part of a team that will manage division-wide initiatives encompassing the Azure Host and Azure Host Components management, optimizing for Azure application lifecycle, availability, reliability, and scale. The role will be central to key Azure division initiatives on customer experience and platform competitiveness, and you’ll drive some of the areas in a services platform with scale and availability targets that don’t exist in the industry today.

This role is Microsoft onsite 3 days a week in Redmond, WA. By applying to this U.S. based position, relocation is not provided.

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 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.
• 4+ years experience with communicating clear, organized program plans, status information, and collaborating in written and live forums to achieve results with large, complex sets of stakeholders.
• 6+ years of experience in all phases of hardware development (server, enterprise, consumer or other).

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 10+ years experience in 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).
• Experience working at a cloud-based company or in fields like telecom or networking.
  Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure concepts and design technique AND software development tools and techniques.

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 13, 2025.

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• Translate product requirements into hardware requirements like security, quality, performance, features, schedule, and cost to develop hardware platforms.
• Partner with software and hardware teams to design complex technical solutions across feature areas and make data-driven recommendations based on identified risks.
• Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas for highly complex cross-functional projects while ensuring alignment across the business.
• Build a working knowledge of the Azure infrastructure to analyze design option impacts.