Senior Technical Program Manager

Are you passionate about solving challenging problems in the generative AI space such as long form text generation or dealing with complex formatting with LLMs? Do you want to work with a world class applied scientist team to deliver Copilot in Microsoft office applications? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! 

We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join Microsoft Word PM team with a growth mindset, high integrity, and effective collaboration skills. Successful candidates will have technical program management experience in:

• Working with applied scientists on generative AI and/or NLP
• Leading complex or large-scale projects with cross-functional and geo-distributed teams
• Setting program strategy, roadmaps, delivery time and method
• Managing delivery, execution, and release processes
• Solving technical and architectural challenges, key dependencies and requirements
• Collaborating with stakeholders across organizations and roles
• Driving RoB and reporting process
• Diving deep into products to understand and address issues and deliver outcomes

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.

Responsibilities

• Technical Thought Leadership – Collaborate with stakeholders to develop strategies and plans for addressing complex technical topics.
• Voice of the customer - Define user centric OKRs, guiding the technical investment with business goals and customer needs.
• Cross org alignment - Work with immediate team, stakeholders, and teams across organizations, roles, and geographies to align on shared goals and OKRs.
• Backlog, dependencies, and requirements - In collaboration with product management and engineering, maintaining prioritized backlog and driving accountability of cross team dependencies and requirements.
• Roadmap and delivery - Drive overall program and project roadmap, schedule, release, and adjustments.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
• Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• In-depth knowledge and prior experience with generative AI and natural language processing (NLP) products.
• Effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including articulating complex issues and solutions.
• Experience across the complete product cycle, from initial design to execution and release process, to post-release support and iterations.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis,
• Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• OR product development
• OR equivalent experience.

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