About the role
Are you passionate about AI, data, and transformative user experiences? Do you bring energy, curiosity, and a strong sense of ownership to your work?
The Finance Data & Experiences (FD&E) organization is on a mission to redefine how Microsoft measures, monitors, and optimizes its global business—and we’re looking for top talent to join us. This is a unique opportunity to lead with bold ideas, apply cutting-edge technology, and work across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Product Engineering to deliver high-impact business solutions.
In this role, you will lead an AI-first transformation of the Finance Data & Insights portfolio by shaping a unified product strategy and experience across a broad ecosystem of data platforms, AI agents, dashboards, and analytical tools. You will operate ahead of the current roadmap to define how users discover, interact with, and derive value from data—aligning rapidly evolving Microsoft technologies such as Copilot, Fabric, and Power BI into coherent, persona-driven business solutions.
As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will combine product strategy, technical depth, and program leadership to drive end-to-end delivery of scalable, AI-powered experiences. You will partner deeply with engineering and product teams to integrate capabilities, establish clear roadmaps and governance, and ensure high-quality execution that delivers measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Aligned to organizational strategy and AI-first transformation priorities.
- Lead the integration of product strategy and program execution to deliver unified, persona-driven business solutions across data and AI platforms.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to design scalable architectures that integrate AI capabilities, data platforms, and user experiences.
- Establish and drive a consolidated roadmap spanning multiple programs, balancing near-term delivery with forward-looking platform evolution.
- Create frameworks for persona and scenario-based discovery, translating business needs into prioritized product and program requirements.
- Drive orchestration of complex, cross-functional initiatives, ensuring alignment across Finance, Engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Define decision frameworks for leveraging native Microsoft capabilities versus custom-built solutions.
- Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and responsible AI standards across all solutions.
- Lead experimentation, validation, and feedback loops to continuously improve product experiences and adoption.
- Partner with stakeholders to articulate value, including productivity gains, user adoption, and ROI, and standardize storytelling across programs.
- Identify risks, drive mitigation strategies, and ensure delivery excellence across timelines, scope, and quality.
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 of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience 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.
- Experience defining and delivering large-scale product or platform strategies with measurable business impact and ROI.
- Technical depth across data platforms, analytics, distributed systems, and enterprise data architectures.
- Expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, semantic models, or comparable data technologies.
- Demonstrated experience integrating AI or machine learning capabilities (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Copilot, agent-based systems) into products or business solutions to drive measurable outcomes and improve user experiences.
- Skilled in translating ambiguous business problems into structured, executable plans and driving them through to large-scale adoption.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning diverse organizations toward common goals.
- Experience operating across multiple business domains or customer segments.
- Comfortable prototyping, analyzing, or experimenting using tools such as Python, SQL, or similar technologies.
- Excellent executive communication and storytelling skills.
Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 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 $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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What's promising
- •Strong commitment to innovation in AI and cloud computing.
- •Diverse range of roles from technical to managerial, offering career growth.
- •Financially stable with a robust global presence and market influence.
What to watch
- •Complex organizational structure can slow decision-making processes.
- •High competition for roles may limit entry-level opportunities.
- •Potential for work-life balance challenges in high-demand positions.
Why Microsoft
- •Pioneer in personal and business computing with a legacy of innovation.
- •Extensive global reach with a diverse workforce and inclusive culture.
- •Leader in integrating AI into mainstream software and cloud services.
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