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Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft· Technical Program Management
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Principal Technical Program Manager to shape systems behind ad delivery at global scale within Microsoft Ads, focusing on ads serving runtime, compute-intensive systems, and the broader Data, Platform and Tools charter across online/offline ads systems, experimentation, metrics, data platforms and pipelines, capacity, developer tooling, and engineering efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the vision, strategy, and measurable outcomes for complex technical programs across the Data, Platform and Tools space.
  • Drive improvements in performance, reliability, scalability, capacity, cost efficiency, and operational readiness of high-scale production systems.
  • Develop end-to-end understanding across services and online/offline components by reviewing architecture and code paths, analyzing production data and logs, evaluating experiments, and testing hypotheses.
  • Form an evidence-based technical point of view, surface trade-offs, and influence engineering and product direction through depth, data, and sound judgment.
  • Own complex initiatives end to end — from problem framing and solution definition through alignment, execution, rollout, measurement, and course correction — with accountability for outcomes.
  • Define success criteria, metrics, and guardrails; use experimentation, telemetry, and production signals to assess customer, system, and business impact.
  • Align engineering, product, data science, and business stakeholders across organizational boundaries, including senior leaders and globally distributed teams.
  • Identify and resolve technical, organizational, and execution dependencies and risks; navigate ambiguity and obstacles without losing momentum or lowering the quality bar.
  • Communicate program state early and clearly, including progress, risks, misses, trade-offs, and decisions, to both technical and executive audiences.
  • Identify systemic opportunities beyond individual initiatives, connect investments across technical areas, and help shape broader technical and program direction.
  • Use AI effectively for research, analysis, debugging, system understanding, and program execution while applying appropriate technical judgment and validation.
  • Champion a culture of rigor, curiosity, quality, inclusion, and truth-seeking, with decisions grounded in evidence and systems designed for long-term robustness and scale.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:engineering judgment and systems thinkingdata analysis and interpretationcross-team program management
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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