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Microsoft Corporation Principal Technical Program Manager in Multiple Locations, United States
Do you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Do you wake up hoping to find time to learn a bit more about how to containerize compute workloads? Work with high scale data? Or build end-to-end engineering deployment systems? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day?
The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves in making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.
We develop solutions side-by-side with our customers through collaborative innovation to solve their challenges. This work involves the development of broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform. In this role, you will be working with engineers from your team and our customers’ teams to apply your skills, perspectives, and creativity to grow as engineers and help solve our customers’ toughest challenges.
We are hiring a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) with deep experience designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. Each TPM helps drive high-impact engineering projects with our customers and their partners, transforming their missions using cloud-based solutions and services. TPMs work closely with a dev lead to co-lead a cross-functional team of Software Engineers, PMs, and Data Scientists, fulfilling the Product Owner role. TPMs identify and define the relevant customer scenarios, orchestrate the engineering approach to address these, and develop the end-to-end user stories with internal and external stakeholders.
Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!
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.
Responsibilities
Analysis of Customer and Market Signals
Leads customer engagements and market research to identify complex opportunities and gaps in multiple feature areas; tests hypotheses and proposes solution roadmap.
Scale impact by identifying top priorities for in-demand subject matter experts, manage backlog and assets that help scale top customer patterns, and accelerate developer success by building trust and sharing cross-organizational best practices.
Product/Service Definition
- Designs and proposes architecture and solutions for complex technical needs, collaborates with internal and external partners, and defines program goals and success metrics for multiple feature areas.
Product/Service Development
Manages cross-functional projects and teams for multiple feature areas of a product or service.
Drive customer engagements to deliver well-defined products that generate immediate customer value and high-quality, broadly applicable software contributions to Microsoft products and to open-source communities.
Participate in hands-on coding activities to maintain up-to-date technical knowledge.
Product/Service Performance
Partners with others to collect and analyze performance metrics, monitor progress, and derive insights for multiple feature areas.
Influence product roadmaps by developing relationships with product teams, sharing insights and data from customer engagements, and driving executive communication.
Understand common cloud architecture patterns and trade-offs, best practices for cloud engineering, developer productivity issues, etc.
Other · Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)
Qualifications
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 experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
Technical program management experience in managing customer relationships and engagements, triaging, and managing priorities
Proficiency in creating technical reports, white papers, or case studies
Experience working within and directing geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
Enjoy travel and comfortable with regional travel up to 25%
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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 1, 2024
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