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Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft· Technical Program Management
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Hybrid (United States), United States$165.6k - $296.4kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role to define direction and lead the CISO OSIC team’s most complex, cross-cutting programs from diagnosis to durable execution, leveraging AI, telemetry, and evidence to drive secure outcomes across Microsoft.

Responsibilities

  • Translate CISO strategy and executive intent into enterprise-scale programs and portfolios by framing ambiguous problems, defining target outcomes and success measures, establishing governance and decision rights, mapping dependencies, and creating executable multi-year roadmaps.
  • Architect durable operating models, automated workflows, and reusable capabilities that institutionalize effective practices, drive adoption across organizational boundaries, and scale beyond individual programs or leaders.
  • Orchestrate complex, high-risk initiatives across Microsoft by aligning senior leaders in engineering, security, operations, risk and compliance, and business organizations; establishing operating rhythms and accountability; resolving systemic blockers; and driving timely decisions and tradeoffs.
  • Use AI, telemetry, and qualitative and quantitative evidence to instrument outcomes, identify emerging risk and program drift, improve decision velocity and accuracy, and continuously optimize CISO operations and portfolio investments.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives by synthesizing complex technical, operational, and organizational inputs into clear narratives, options, tradeoffs, and recommendations that shape strategy, investment, and execution decisions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Skills

Required:Strategy translation to enterprise programsOperating model designCross-functional program leadershipAI, telemetry, data-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification to access export controlled information
  • Health, retirement, and other benefits typical of Microsoft roles (implicit in description)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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