Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

We’re living through an unprecedented moment in technology — where the fusion of healthcare, data, and generative AI is redefining what’s possible for patients, providers, and partners around the world. Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences (HLS) organization is at the forefront of that transformation, building products that accelerate innovation and deliver meaningful impact at global scale. To power our next wave of growth, the HLS Chief Operating Office (COO) is building a new foundation for predictable, high-quality, secure, and accountable product delivery. We’re looking for an exceptional Product Planning Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead the design and rollout of a unified product planning and release management ecosystem — one that connects strategy to execution and ensures we’re building the right things, at the right time, the right way. This is a career-defining opportunity to architect how product and engineering teams across HLS plan, prioritize, and deliver innovation in the AI era. You’ll drive consistency and operational excellence, bringing clarity and transparency to how we build, launch, and scale products that matter. You’ll work within the COO but operate across every corner of the business — collaborating with product management, engineering, marketing, compliance, and Microsoft partner organizations. You’ll influence leaders, orchestrate alignment, and help transform how HLS operates to win the market with confidence.

Requirements

Cross-Functional Change Leader who can influence others and garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence; able to lead and manage individuals and teams across various business functions and unite them to achieve shared goals; fosters a cooperative environment across diverse teams and stakeholders, influencing and managing social relationships and interactions to ensure clear understanding and alignment of mutual goals for program success.
Stakeholder Management — able to manage project stakeholders and stakeholder engagements. This includes identifying stakeholders, prioritizing their concerns, managing expectations, and planning and monitoring stakeholder engagements.
Deep Program Management Expertise — skilled at building planning frameworks, managing cross-functional complexity, and driving measurable outcomes.
Technical Fluency and comfort engaging engineering teams in discussions on architecture, DevOps, and release pipelines.
Data-Driven Operator who uses metrics, dashboards, and insights to bring clarity and accountability to execution.

Nice To Haves

AI-Curious and Future-Ready — passionate about how generative AI and automation can elevate operational excellence.
Strategic Systems Thinker who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and technology.
Continuous Improvement practitioner – able to drive process change leveraging tools such as Gemba walks and Kaizen events.

Responsibilities

Lead a Connected Product Planning Ecosystem
Design and operationalize a unified, end-to-end product planning and release management framework across HLS.
Embed best practices that drive clarity, accountability, and agility from ideation through launch.
Create the connective tissue between teams, ensuring visibility into priorities, dependencies, and readiness.
Bring Predictability and Transparency to Delivery
Build and maintain consistent, real-time reporting for roadmap status, release readiness, and delivery health.
Partner with product and engineering to establish milestone-driven roadmaps that enable informed tradeoffs and predictable outcomes.
Establish rhythm-of-business processes that help leaders steer, support, and scale effectively.
Drive Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence
Apply a transformation mindset — diagnosing pain points, simplifying processes, and scaling what works.
Leverage tools like Azure DevOps (ADO), dashboards, and AI-driven insights (e.g., Copilot agents) to automate and accelerate planning and reporting.
Champion retrospectives and feedback loops to ensure teams are learning, improving, and evolving faster than the market.
Connect, Coach, and Influence
Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, Compliance, Legal, and Marketing.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and teams, connecting strategy to execution with empathy and precision.
Foster a vibrant TPM community that shares best practices, elevates operational excellence, and celebrates impact.