Senior Technical Program Manager

Overview

The Senior Technical Program Manager (STPM) is a cross-functional leader responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex technical programs and projects, bridging engineering, product, business, and stakeholder teams. They define program scope, objectives, and success metrics, develop detailed roadmaps, and drive execution by coordinating cross-team collaboration, resolving technical and resource dependencies, and mitigating risks. TPMs oversee project timelines, budgets, and quality standards, facilitate clear communication across stakeholders, and ensure alignment with organizational goals. They analyze technical challenges, provide strategic guidance, and drive continuous process improvement to optimize delivery efficiency and program outcomes.

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Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program planning and execution across multiple engineering teams from scoping and milestone definition through launch and post-launch iteration.
• Build and maintain program schedules, risk registers, and escalation paths; proactively surface issues before they become blockers.
• Partner with engineering leads, product managers, designers, and applied scientists to align on priorities, resolve dependencies, and unblock delivery.
• Drive cross-team alignment through structured communication writing crisp specs, decision docs, and status reports for both technical and executive audiences.
• Translate AI research outputs and model improvement cycles into structured program plans with clear timelines, dependencies, and go/no-go criteria.
• Define and track success metrics including standard product health signals alongside AI-specific indicators such as latency, hallucination rate, and RAI scorecard results.
• Coordinate launch readiness across Legal, Privacy, Security, and Responsible AI review gates, ensuring compliance with Microsoft’s AI principles without losing delivery momentum.
• Lead program reviews, retrospectives, and readiness assessments; hold teams accountable to commitments.
• Identify and drive improvements to engineering processes, tooling, and ways of working including evaluation pipelines, A/B testing infrastructure, and deployment workflows.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-team programs with competing priorities and shifting requirements
• Solid written and verbal communication skills; able to tailor messaging to engineers, researchers, and senior leaders
• Familiarity with AI-based systems and the AI/ML product development lifecycle from data and training through evaluation, deployment, and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience shipping AI or ML-powered products end-to-end.
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or orchestration frameworks (Semantic Kernel, LangChain).

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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