Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE
Role Overview
Join Microsoft’s Frontier Company Engineering team, which embeds with customer teams to solve complex challenges and ship production-ready solutions.
Lead complex technical programs with strategic customers from problem definition through delivery, owning the customer journey and measurable business outcomes.
Work with small multidisciplinary teams and use AI across the development lifecycle while maintaining security, quality, and trust.
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Role overview
Join Microsoft’s Frontier Company Engineering team, which embeds with customer teams to solve complex challenges and ship production-ready solutions.
Lead complex technical programs with strategic customers from problem definition through delivery, owning the customer journey and measurable business outcomes.
Work with small multidisciplinary teams and use AI across the development lifecycle while maintaining security, quality, and trust.
Responsibilities
- Lead customer-embedded technical programs and align business needs with engineering solutions across AI, cloud, and data.
- Own delivery from problem definition through co-engineering to measurable outcomes.
- Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle to accelerate requirements-to-specifications, create engineering artifacts from customer context, and move value into production.
- Use tools such as VS Code, GitHub, and AI agents for planning, documentation, and technical program leadership; validate AI-generated outputs.
- Navigate ambiguity, make technical and program decisions, identify opportunities, manage risks, and provide data-driven recommendations.
- Create reusable solution patterns, open-source assets, and engineering playbooks; share knowledge and best practices.
- Partner with software engineers, data scientists, designers, and customer engineers to deliver AI-powered cloud solutions; advise stakeholders on risks and tradeoffs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience.
- Five or more years managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
About Microsoft
Microsoft’s stated mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more. The company describes a culture of growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.
Application timing
- The position will be open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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