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Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE

Microsoft· Technical Program Management
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Tokyo, Japanfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Principal Technical Program Manager embedding with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs, owning the full customer journey from problem definition through delivery and driving measurable business outcomes in Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering (Forward Deployed Engineering) team.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with strategic customers to lead complex technical programs with high autonomy, aligning business needs with engineering solutions across AI, cloud, and data. Take ownership of the customer journey end-to-end, from problem definition through co-engineering delivery to measurable business outcomes.
  • Apply AI assisted engineering practices as a daily operating mode: use AI tools across the full software development lifecycle to accelerate requirements-to-specs, generate high-quality engineering artifacts from customer context, and drive continuous flow of value from business need to production.
  • Operate fluently in engineering tooling (e.g., VS Code, GitHub, AI agents) as primary work surfaces for planning, documentation, and technical program leadership. Validate AI-generated outputs with domain expertise to maintain quality at speed.
  • Navigate ambiguity in customer environments with self-direction and high ownership. Make technical and program decisions with incomplete information, proactively identify opportunities and manage risks, providing data-driven recommendations to stakeholders.
  • Champion and cultivate reusable solution patterns, open-source assets, and engineering playbooks that scale impact beyond individual engagements. Contribute to the broader engineering community through knowledge sharing and best practices.
  • Partner with multi-disciplinary engineering teams (software engineers, data scientists, designers) to evaluate, design, and deliver AI-powered cloud solutions side-by-side with customer engineers. Give key stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks and tradeoffs.

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.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
  • Fluency in Japanese and English language skills
  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years experience in 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.
  • 1+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles (e.g., consulting, solutions engineering, field engineering, or similar).
  • Experience with AI/ML technologies, cloud architecture, data engineering, and using AI tools and workflows in creating software engineering artifacts.
  • Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%

Skills

Required:Problem definition to delivery ownershipAI-assisted engineering practicesEngineering tooling (VS Code, GitHub, AI agents)Risk management and data-driven decision makingCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Travel willingness
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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