Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Specialized Clouds (MSC) team. MSC builds and operates secure, compliant, and mission-aligned cloud capabilities for regulated and high-assurance environments - including specialized commercial sectors, governments and Defense Industrial Base (DIB). As our ecosystem expands, strong, strategic partner relationships are essential to delivering durable, compliant, and innovative solutions.

We are hiring aPrincipal Technical Program Managerto own MSC's end-to-end partner engagements across commercial OEMs and DIB partners. You will coordinate deeply with these partners, MSC Engineering, Business Development, CELA, and cross-company teams to ensure partnerships are healthy, productive, aligned with Microsoft strategy, and operationally unblocked. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role in the Technical Advisory Office directly supporting the President of the MSC organization.

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.

• Serve as the primary PM owner for MSC's strategic commercial partners for Azure's adaptive cloud and DIB partners.
• Maintain a holistic partner health model, including joint workstreams, status tracking, risk identification, and executive reporting.
• Represent partner needs in MSC roadmap conversations, influencing product direction on durability, compliance, interoperability, and certification.

Cross-Company Alignment & Leadership

• Collaborate with engineering teams to drive partner facing requirements, dependencies, investigations, and cross team decisions.
• Work closely with Business Development to define long-term partner strategy, identify new opportunities, and negotiate joint programs.
• Partner tightly with CELA to ensure compliance, data boundaries, export controls, and regulatory considerations are respected throughout the partner lifecycle.
• Support executive prep and materials for leadership including Douglas Phillips, drawing from structures outlined in partner engagement and customer engagement planning.

Program Execution Excellence

• Establish and maintain structured execution frameworks (scorecards, status dashboards, joint workstream trackers, escalation paths).
• Own partner-related escalations, driving actionable clarity and leadership visibility.
• Track measurable KPIs for partner program success: health indicators, workstream progress, dependency closure, risk reduction, and compliance signals.
• Ensure leadership has crisp, timely updates, including executive summaries, talking points, risks, and decision asks.
• Embody ourcultureandvalues.

Technical Program Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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.

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