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FULL_TIME
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Senior Technical Program Manager

12/10/2025

The Senior Technical Program Manager will lead complex technical programs for Microsoft's geospatial services, ensuring clarity in scope, timelines, and success metrics. They will influence product strategy and foster cross-functional collaboration while applying data-driven insights to measure program performance.

Salary

119800 - 234700 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
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About the Role
Overview

As a Senior Technical Program Manager (Level 63) on the Bing Places Data team, you will lead complex technical programs supporting Microsoft's geospatial services, including Bing Maps, Local Search, and Copilot. This position requires both strong technical knowledge and program management skills to deliver solutions that meet business and customer needs. As a Senior TPM, you will: 

  • Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale programs, ensuring clarity in scope, timelines, and success metrics. 

  • Influence product strategy by partnering with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to define priorities and technical feasibility. 

  • Lead cross-functional collaboration, fostering alignment across diverse teams and managing dependencies in ambiguous environments. 

  • Apply data-driven insights to measure program performance, identify risks, and implement continuous improvements. 

  • Champion customer-centric solutions, ensuring technical programs deliver measurable value and meet security, compliance, and quality standards. 

This role requires excellent communication skills, technical depth to align diverse stakeholders, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while driving results at scale. 



Responsibilities
  • Program Planning & Execution: Develop detailed project plans (scope, objectives, timelines, deliverables) in collaboration with Engineering and Product teams to ensure timely execution and delivery. 
  • Stakeholder Management: Act as a point of contact for the Bing Places Data team, for other internal and business stakeholders, aligning technical requirements and roadmaps with business objectives and driving clarity in ambiguous environments. 
  • Data-Driven Execution: Use telemetry to track success, spot areas for improvement, and optimize processes.   
  • Product Influence: Think strategically to shape product offerings and engineering plans, by collaborating with Dev, Product, and Design teams, leveraging customer insights and technical feasibility to guide the groups' decisions. 


Qualifications

Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development 
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in modern AI-driven software development workflows including agentic coding.
  • Experience with modern open-source big-data systems like Spark, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Airflow. 
  • Experience building AI models, products, grounding, and tooling.
  • Experience creating geospatial and mapping products. 
  • Experience creating web search products.
  • Understanding of engineering principles, security principles, and the software development lifecycle, especially in modern AI-driven software workflows.
  • Ability to drive technical feasibility discussions.
  • Proven ability to lead programs in ambiguous environments.
  • Expertise in risk mitigation, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Exceptional ability to influence and communicate with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

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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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.

Key Skills
Technical Program ManagementData AnalysisCross-Functional CollaborationProject PlanningStakeholder ManagementRisk MitigationCustomer-Centric SolutionsAI-Driven Software DevelopmentGeospatial ServicesBig Data SystemsWeb Search ProductsEngineering PrinciplesCommunication SkillsProduct StrategyContinuous ImprovementAmbiguity Navigation
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