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Posted date: Jan 15, 2026
Category: Technical Program Management
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewMicrosoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive end-to-end hardware strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational constraints, and technical requirements across compute and storage categories. As a Principal TPM, you will drive end-to-end strategy and execution for cloud hardware delivery, ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational constraints and technical requirements in partnership with internal stakeholders across the entire product portfolio. You will be accountable for orchestrating cross-functional teams, optimizing processes, and accelerating time-to-market in support of regulated workloads. This role is the single point of accountability for roadmap clarity, dependency management, and escalation management, partnering with engineering, supply chain, planning, product, and operations teams. You will represent Microsoft in next-generation hardware planning, influence platform direction, and advocate for customer needs in executive forums. This position is critical to the growth, resiliency, and compliance of Microsoft’s government-regulated cloud offerings.
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
Defining and driving prioritization and sequencing of hardware investments across general compute, specialty compute, storage, and GPUs (graphics processing units).Representing Microsoft in next-generation hardware planning with public cloud teams, influencing platform direction and establishing plans-of-record for critical requirements.Shaping long-term strategy for hardware enablement in regulated environments, anticipating market trends and customer needs.Orchestrating execution across engineering, supply chain, planning, and operations teams to ensure timely, reliable hardware delivery.Driving process optimization and standardization to improve delivery predictability and accelerate time to market.Leading escalation management, dependency resolution, and trade-off decisions across programs.Serving as the single accountable owner for roadmap clarity, dependency management, and cross-organizational communication. Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum 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.Other Requirements:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship. Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
Existing US Government Clearance or ability and willingness to acquire and maintain a US Government Clearance3+ years leading delivery of cloud hardware solutions and driving requirements for Azure or comparable infrastructure platforms.3+ years managing cross-functional team projects involving hardware lifecycle, supply chain, or cloud infrastructure delivery.Previous experience leading teamsDirect GPU lifecycle planning experience
Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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.
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