Principal TPM Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

18h

About The Position

Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all by reshaping security and empowering users, customers, and developers with a security cloud. The organization is focused on securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in heterogeneous customer environments, as well as ensuring the security of its own internal estate. With AI reshaping operations, the organization must rethink planning, governance, and execution using data, automation, and modern operating models. The Principal TPM Manager, within the Executive Office, will set the strategy and lead the team responsible for scaling Microsoft Security’s capacity and engineering efficiency function. This role establishes shared standards, decision rights, operating rhythms, and accountability mechanisms to empower engineering teams to innovate faster while operating within margin targets and improving AI-driven economics of capacity, utilization, and cost at enterprise scale. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, driven by values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering an inclusive culture.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
3+ years people management experience.
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional programs in complex engineering or cloud environments.
Experience partnering with senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders to drive execution and business outcomes.
Experience in capacity management, infrastructure efficiency, FinOps, or related cost optimization disciplines.
Technical fluency in distributed systems and cloud cost drivers, including compute, storage, networking, and token-based workloads.
Experience driving cross-organizational changes through influence in highly matrixed environments.
Experience using data, telemetry, and metrics to improve cost, performance, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

Define and scale the work governance model for how Microsoft Security manages capacity, engineering efficiency, and resource economics as strategic business capabilities.
Set the strategy and operating model for Capacity & Engineering Efficiency as a core lever for innovation, margin discipline, and resource economics.
Lead the management system for infrastructure, AI, and engineering capacity, defining decision rights, operating rhythms, and governance mechanisms to improve planning and optimization.
Establish FinOps and AI FinOps as durable engineering capabilities, driving the change management needed to embed cost, token, and margin accountability into engineering and product teams.
Manage the portfolio of highest-impact margin optimization opportunities, translating capacity, utilization, and AI consumption signals into business decisions and measurable outcomes.
Standardize shared metrics, accountability mechanisms, and execution practices that improve transparency, consistency, and work governance across engineering organizations.
Build and lead a high-performing TPM organization with the leadership depth, systems thinking, and influence needed to drive sustained transformation at scale.