Microsoft

Senior Technical Program Manager

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Charlotte, NC 28269In-Person
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 4+ years in engineering, product management, or data analysis, or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years managing cross-functional or team projects.
  • Bachelor's degree with 8+ years in relevant fields preferred.
  • 6+ years managing complex projects preferred.
  • 1+ year experience in coding or technical documentation.
  • Experience with large-scale global revenue management and billing systems.
  • Familiarity with financial compliance in engineering environments.
  • Strong skills in technical communication and influencing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end technical programs from problem statement to outcome across engineering and finance teams.
  • Manage program rhythm for modernizing revenue recognition and billing, while defining milestones and dependencies.
  • Collaborate with engineers from concept to solution, identifying alignment issues early.
  • Interface with business and finance stakeholders to translate their needs into actionable specs.
  • Navigate trade-offs between speed, cost, and accuracy, documenting decisions clearly for leadership.
  • Prototype AI solutions to validate designs and facilitate stakeholder understanding.
  • Identify opportunities for AI to streamline workflows and scale effective solutions across projects.
  • Define and uphold rigorous standards for project readiness before release.
  • Maintain visibility of all project aspects, including risks and decisions.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Employee stock purchase plan.
  • Parenting leave and support for new parents.
  • Continued learning and development opportunities.
Full Job Description
Overview

Every dollar Microsoft earns is recognized by the platforms this team builds. We sit at the intersection of engineering and finance - where distributed systems meet accounting standards, and where a design decision can change how revenue is recognized across the company. We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager who finds that intersection energizing rather than intimidating: someone who can hold their own in a conversation about event-driven architecture in the morning and ASC 606 treatment in the afternoon, and who wants to modernize how a hyperscale business closes its books.

This opportunity will allow you to develop deep financial domain expertise that transfers across the industry, build technical credibility with engineering and architecture partners on large-scale distributed systems, and grow your influence with senior finance and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • You will drive large, cross-group technical programs end to end - from ambiguous problem statement to shipped outcome - spanning multiple engineering teams, finance stakeholders, and partner organizations across Microsoft's commerce ecosystem.


  • You will own the program rhythm for initiatives that modernize revenue recognition, billing, and financial orchestration at Azure scale, defining milestones, managing dependencies, and making trade-offs visible before they become escalations.


  • Shape solutions alongside engineers and architects from the first whiteboard - stress-testing how designs fit together across teams and surfacing misalignment while it costs a conversation to fix, not a release.


  • Serve as the primary interface between engineering and business, finance, and compliance stakeholders - turning their requirements into build-ready specifications and system behavior into terms they can trust and sign off on.


  • Make the hard trade-offs between speed, cost, and correctness explicit, drive them to a decision, and carry the rationale to leadership in writing that holds up.


  • Prototype with AI before committing engineering time - working demos and agents that settle open questions, pressure-test designs, and show stakeholders the answer instead of describing it.


  • Rethink how the work itself gets done: identify where AI and agentic workflows can absorb recurring product, program, and validation work, prove it on your own workload first, and scale what works.


  • Define what "ready to ship" means for changes where errors are costly, and hold releases to that bar.


  • Run disciplined, lightweight execution - dependencies, risks, and decisions visible at all times, with an owner and a date on everything open.


  • Embody Microsoft's culture and values - a growth mindset, customer obsession, diversity and inclusion, One Microsoft collaboration, and making others better through your work.


Qualifications

Required Qualfications
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development, OR equivalent experience.


  • 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development, OR equivalent experience.


  • 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.


  • 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).


  • Experience with revenue management, billing, invoicing, tax, or payments platforms operating at global scale.


  • Familiarity with financial compliance and control requirements in a large enterprise engineering environment.


  • Strong technical communication and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing across organizational boundaries without direct authority.


Other Requirements

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
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