PowerPoint is transforming storytelling with agentic creation and skills alongside a modernized core experience that help millions of customers drive change every day! PowerPoint is a cornerstone of the Microsoft 365 and Copilot business strategy, and our team is driving core product experiences and AI innovation.
We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional programs across the PowerPoint product portfolio. In this role, you will drive operational and execution excellence, develop playbooks and systems that solve hard problems in elegant and efficient ways, and use AI to accelerate and amplify the team’s work to deliver success across programs that power the next generation of productivity.
You will help us prioritize across strategic and immediate needs and your leadership will span varied projects that can include forward deployed engineering (FDE), fundamentals from security to performance, optimizing Copilot capabilities, delivering latest models inside Copilot experiences, driving customer adoption and satisfaction, and ensuring high craft while modernizing frontline experiences in the world’s flagship presentation and storytelling application.
This role requires technical depth, program leadership, and executive stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across diverse teams. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the future of PowerPoint while collaborating across product teams and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
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
As part of PowerPoint TPM leadership, prioritize programs and foster excellence within the TPM discipline.
Partner closely with PowerPoint Product and Engineering teams to plan, coordinate, and execute on product outcomes.
Across programs, define success, establish schedules and milestones, align stakeholders, communicate status and ensure shared awareness of critical details and action items.
Develop systems and playbooks, tooling and processes, risk mitigations, and continually evolve and improve our approach to tackling complex problems.
Use AI to automate and accelerate programs and derive insights that become action to propel the team forward.
Qualifications
Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience 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.
- Fluency with AI tools to automate processes and accelerate programs.
- Passion for eliminating ambiguity, ensuring accountability, and history of proactively adapting programs to consistently deliver results.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively leverage AI-powered tools, including Microsoft Copilot and agentic AI coworkers, to enhance productivity, decision-making, and work quality.
- Ability to align diverse stakeholders and influence cross-functional leaders toward decisions that produce measurable impact.
- Executive communication skills, including the ability to lead senior-level discussions and distill complex technical details into clear, relevant messages.
- Demonstrated customer focus, with experience translating customer requirements into product capabilities.
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Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects
- Fluency with AI tools to automate processes and accelerate programs
- Experience eliminating ambiguity, ensuring accountability, and proactively adapting programs to deliver results
- Experience leveraging AI-powered tools, including Microsoft Copilot and agentic AI coworkers
- Ability to align diverse stakeholders and influence cross-functional leaders toward measurable decisions
- Executive communication skills and ability to lead senior-level discussions about complex technical details
- Experience translating customer requirements into product capabilities
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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