Job description

Overview Microsoft Digital (MSD) builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more! We are hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to drive tenant onboarding of Microsoft 365 services inside Microsoft's internal IT organization. Microsoft runs many internal Microsoft 365 tenants, including high profile tenants where security, compliance, and operational bars are at the highest level. The highest impact part of this role is creating clarity in ambiguous problem spaces and delivering tenants to users on time and on quality. You will take loosely defined goals, partner across many engineering teams, and turn them into clear plans, owners, milestones, and decisions. You will operate in high stakes scenarios with a broad stakeholder set including Microsoft 365 product engineering, internal business groups (for example customer support and finance), security organizations, and internal IT leadership, often with conflicting requirements that you will reconcile to keep delivery moving. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. #MSD #MSDJOBS Responsibilities • You will drive tenant onboarding programs of significant complexity end to end across multiple engineering teams; own the plan, the milestones, the risks, the decisions, and the delivered outcome. • You will make ambiguous problem statements and turn them into structured programs: scope, dependencies, owners, success criteria, and a clear path to delivery. • You will manage stakeholders across Microsoft 365 product engineering, internal business groups (for example customer support and finance), security organizations, and internal IT leadership. Surface conflicting requirements early and drive them to a clear decision. • You will deliver in high stakes scenarios: keep work moving while managing risk, escalations, and tradeoffs. • You will run program rhythms: status, milestone reviews, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and executive readouts. • You will communicate clearly in writing and in meetings; tailor the message for engineers, business stakeholders, and senior leaders. Qualifications Required Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development • OR equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications: • 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. • Technical program management experience, with at least the most recent role driving programs that span multiple engineering teams. • Demonstrated drive for results: a track record of personally delivering complex programs to completion. • Experience with Microsoft 365, multitenant SaaS, large enterprise IT, or cloud platform programs. • Background partnering with internal business groups (such as customer support or finance), security engineering, compliance, or operations teams. • Experience with tenant lifecycle, configuration, or onboarding programs at scale. • Experience bringing structure to new or unstructured program areas. • Strong ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and independently produce clear plans, structure, and decisions. • Strong stakeholder management across engineering, business, and operational audiences, including high stakes scenarios with conflicting requirements. • Excellent written and verbal communication, including with senior leaders. • Technical fluency sufficient to understand engineering tradeoffs, dependencies, and risk in cloud or SaaS programs. Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com 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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Must-haves

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!
You will drive tenant onboarding programs of significant complexity end to end across multiple engineering teams; own the plan, the milestones, the risks, the decisions, and the delivered outcome.
You will make ambiguous problem statements and turn them into structured programs: scope, dependencies, owners, success criteria, and a clear path to delivery.
You will deliver in high stakes scenarios: keep work moving while managing risk, escalations, and tradeoffs.
You will run program rhythms: status, milestone reviews, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and executive readouts.
You will communicate clearly in writing and in meetings; tailor the message for engineers, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Nice-to-haves

Technical program management experience, with at least the most recent role driving programs that span multiple engineering teams.
Demonstrated drive for results: a track record of personally delivering complex programs to completion.
Experience with Microsoft 365, multitenant SaaS, large enterprise IT, or cloud platform programs.
Background partnering with internal business groups (such as customer support or finance), security engineering, compliance, or operations teams.
Experience with tenant lifecycle, configuration, or onboarding programs at scale.
Experience bringing structure to new or unstructured program areas.
Strong ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and independently produce clear plans, structure, and decisions.
Strong stakeholder management across engineering, business, and operational audiences, including high stakes scenarios with conflicting requirements.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including with senior leaders.
Technical fluency sufficient to understand engineering tradeoffs, dependencies, and risk in cloud or SaaS programs.
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