Principal Technical Program Manager
About The Position
The AI Transformation team within Microsoft Frontier Company is reimagining how the company operates in the age of AI. The team works across the business to transform critical end-to-end workflows, bringing people, AI agents, and systems together to create new ways of working. It combines engineering, applied AI, program leadership, and business transformation, with a builder mindset that is hands-on, collaborative, comfortable with ambiguity, and biased toward action. Its goal is to build AI-native operating models and reusable solutions that improve operations and accelerate transformation at scale. As a Technical Program Manager, you will provide technical and program leadership to turn AI transformation opportunities into solutions with measurable operational impact. You will work with small, multidisciplinary teams and business stakeholders to translate goals into executable plans, align dependencies and decisions, and lead initiatives from early experimentation through deployment, adoption, and scale.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of 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.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of 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 of experience reading and/or writing code, such as for sample documentation or product demos.
- 5+ years of experience conducting research as part of a research program in academic or industry settings.
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying live production systems as part of a product team.
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying products or systems at multiple points in the product cycle, from ideation to shipping.
Responsibilities
- Drive AI transformation initiatives from ambiguous opportunities through experimentation, implementation, adoption, and scale.
- Partner with engineering teams and use technical judgment to understand designs, tradeoffs, and emerging AI and agentic capabilities.
- Lead multiple complex initiatives in parallel, setting priorities, managing dependencies and risks, and maintaining execution velocity.
- Translate business and operational needs into clear outcomes, success measures, plans, and ownership.
- Provide cross-functional leadership by creating clarity, driving decisions, and aligning teams in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
- Drive measurable operational impact through business metrics, evaluation, telemetry, and feedback loops that inform iteration and scaling decisions.
- Build trusted partnerships across Frontier and identify reusable patterns and approaches to scale successful transformations.
- Ensure security, privacy, Responsible AI, and compliance requirements are incorporated throughout program execution.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
