Senior Technical Program Manager - Audio

Are you passionate about building and delivering great devices and technologies? The Surface Team focuses on building devices that fully express the Windows vision. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between experience teams, hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation of products and Surface needs you!

As a Senior Technical Program Manager on our cross-platform Audio team, you will be responsible for supporting the definition and delivery of multiple Audio enabled Surface products. You will collaborate and manage the delivery of complex software products that interface closely with low level hardware, firmware and drivers. You will lead planning, tracking, bug triage and reporting for a multi-disciplinary team using program management and agile software development skills. 

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

 

• Manage driver, audio software feature development and audio quality tuning delivery for multiple hardware programs.
• Work with  software engineering, quality and hardware partners to plan, schedule and release multiple software releases throughout the product development cycle from early phase definition, through release to in market support.
• Work with external suppliers to source, define and run algorithm tuning for audio quality and features.
• Work with Experience team leads to ensure product quality meets KPIs to deliver products that meet expectation set at program definition.
• Work with Internal Microsoft Partners in teams outside of Surface to define and deliver new Windows features that expand the functionality of Audios in Surface products.
• Continuously improve the end to end hardware/software development lifecycle process.
• Forecast and manage a yearly budget working to leverage past work to improve future costs to the business.
• Drive audio bring-up tuning programs and knowledge of image pipelines is preferred.

Embody the Microsoft culture and values .

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.
• Familiarity with audio hardware components and related software frameworks.
• Experience driving audio bring-up tuning programs or similar experience.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or related field and 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or hardware product development
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with drafting and negotiating SOW, NRE and COGs with external partners.
• Experience with the Windows software stack.
• Experience delivering AI-based features.
• Familiarity with Azure Dev Ops.
• OR equivalent experience.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for this role until October 24, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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