Microsoft Security (MSEC) is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to help lead and scale the Getting Customers Ready for AI strategic initiative. This role sits at the intersection of AI transformation, security, and customer readiness, and plays a key part in helping organizations confidently and securely adopt AI at enterprise scale.
As AI-powered experiences and agentic systems rapidly reshape how work gets done, customers need clear guidance, trusted solutions, and measurable outcomes to prepare their environments. In this role, you will drive cross-company execution to define, operationalize, and scale AI readiness across critical domains—including identity, devices, data, applications, infrastructure, governance, and overall security posture.
You will partner deeply across Product Management, Engineering, Design, Research, Customer Experience, Sales, Marketing, and Support to align strategy with execution, ensuring we deliver end-to-end experiences that meet evolving customer needs. This is a highly collaborative role with significant visibility, requiring influence across Microsoft Security and Microsoft 365, including engagement with senior leaders and stakeholders.
The ideal candidate brings a balance of technical depth, program leadership, and customer empathy, along with systems thinking and operational rigor. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, driving clarity in fast-moving environments, and scaling impact through cross-functional alignment.
This is a unique opportunity to shape how enterprises prepare for and adopt AI securely—defining the future of customer readiness while contributing to high-impact platform and transformation initiatives across Microsoft.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Program Leadership
- Drive execution of key workstreams for the Getting Customers Ready for AI initiative across Microsoft Security.
- Help define and operationalize customer readiness frameworks, success metrics, and scalable processes that improve AI adoption readiness.
- Partner with product leaders to translate strategic priorities into execution plans, milestones, operational cadences, and measurable outcomes.
- Coordinate cross-functional deliverables across engineering, product management, design, research, customer success, marketing, and field organizations.
- Identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities across multiple teams and proactively drive resolution.
- Technical Program Management
- Lead end-to-end program execution across complex technical initiatives involving security, AI systems, identity, devices, governance, and cloud services.
- Partner with engineering teams to drive architecture alignment, technical reviews, release readiness, quality tracking, and operational excellence.
- Establish scalable mechanisms for program planning, feature tracking, dependency management, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
- Drive alignment across multiple product teams to ensure cohesive customer experiences and integrated platform capabilities.
- Help define telemetry, instrumentation, reporting, and operational insights needed to measure customer adoption and readiness outcomes.
- Customer & Ecosystem Focus
- Partner with customer-facing teams and co-creation programs to understand customer challenges, blockers, adoption patterns, and implementation needs.
- Synthesize customer feedback into actionable recommendations for engineering and product teams, and work with product engineering to define and deliver product solutions to customers.
- Support customer readiness engagements, onboarding strategies, pilot programs, and scalable adoption motions.
- Drive clarity around customer scenarios, deployment guidance, operational best practices, and measurable value.
- Operational Excellence
- Build scalable operating rhythms, communication frameworks, and review processes for the initiative.
- Create executive-ready communications, status updates, roadmap summaries, and decision frameworks.
- Drive program health reviews, KPI tracking, risk management, and organizational alignment.
- Improve cross-team execution efficiency through process simplification, tooling, and program governance.
Qualifications
Required/minimum 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
- OR equivelent experience
- 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
- Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional technical programs across multiple engineering and product teams, including managing dependencies and driving execution in high-matrixed, ambiguous environments.
- Stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment across highly matrixed organizations.
- Experience delivering customer-facing enterprise, cloud, security, or large-scale distributed systems, with an understanding of platform-level architecture and operations.
- Ability to translate technical and operational signals into clear executive insights, including defining frameworks, governance models, and scalable processes.
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI/NPF in core workflows, including synthesizing data at scale, generating structured artifacts, and improving execution through reusable AI-assisted approaches (e.g., prompts, templates, playbooks).
- Demonstrated leadership in AI adoption and/or security domains, including scaling best practices, coaching others, and driving initiatives across organizational boundaries.
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 $160,200 - $261,000 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
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.
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