Senior Director of Hardware Technical Program Management

Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) organization designs and delivers the advanced hardware platforms that power Azure’s global cloud and AI services.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Hardware Technical Program Management to lead our Taipei Hardware TPM team. This leader will develop and drive the strategic agenda across a portfolio of complex AI and cloud infrastructure hardware products and will lead an organization responsible for translating product and technology strategy into scalable execution.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring systems thinking, technical depth, organizational leadership, and business judgment. The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of product architecture, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and business strategy and will help shape products from early architecture through development, qualification, manufacturing ramp, and deployment at scale.

This role is for a technical HW TPM leader who thrives in fast-moving, highly complex environments. Your work will directly shape Azure’s accelerated computing roadmap, strengthen Microsoft’s position in AI infrastructure, and empower customers and developers to build, train, and scale the world’s most advanced AI and cloud services.

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Responsibilities

Strategic and Technical Leadership

• Develop and drive the strategic agenda across the HW TPM team, identifying opportunities, gaps, risks, and investment priorities across multiple AI infrastructure products and technology areas.
• Provide strategic direction across complex hardware portfolios including rack infrastructure, compute, networking, power delivery, liquid cooling, hardware security controls, and other foundational AI infrastructure technologies.
• Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to define and influence system architecture and integrated solutions for highly complex technical and business needs across multiple products and organizations.
• Serve as a technical TPM portfolio leader who can evaluate complex architecture and product-development trade-offs and help teams make decisions balancing performance, quality, reliability, cost, time-to-market, manufacturability, serviceability, and scale.
• Anticipate emerging technology and industry trends and translate them into actionable opportunities, strategies, and recommendations.

Portfolio and Roadmap Leadership

• Provide strategic direction to cross-functional / cross-org teams to define, prioritize, and deliver multi-year roadmaps across multiple products and technology areas.
• Establish clear program objectives, priorities, success criteria, KPIs, and operating mechanisms that connect engineering execution with Microsoft’s broader business and infrastructure strategy.
• Drive prioritization and complex trade-off decisions across competing technical requirements, schedules, resources, product portfolios, and business priorities.
• Partner with engineering, operations, sourcing, supply chain, quality, manufacturing, and datacenter leaders to align product strategies and execution plans.
• Use quantitative insights and business outcomes to assess program performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and drive strategic decisions.

Cross-Organizational Leadership

• Build partnerships across Microsoft engineering and business organizations, creating alignment and accountability across organizational and geographic boundaries.
• Provide strategic direction to large cross-org teams and work effectively with CVP-level leaders and technical and business stakeholders.
• Establish scalable operating mechanisms across Redmond, Taipei, and the broader global engineering ecosystem.
• Lead strategic engagement with ODMs, OEMs, JDMs, key strategic sub-systems/component suppliers, and manufacturing partners across Taiwan and Asia.
• Drive alignment and resolution on highly complex technical, execution, manufacturing, quality, and supply-chain issues requiring decisions across organizational boundaries.

Organizational and People Leadership

• Build, lead, develop, and retain a high-performing Hardware TPM organization in Taipei.
• Create an environment that enables TPMs to operate as technical and strategic leaders, not solely as schedule or process managers.
• Set clear organizational objectives and outcomes while empowering leaders and teams to execute across boundaries.
• Coach and develop TPM talent, understand individual capabilities and career aspirations, and create opportunities for growth and expanded leadership.
• Build a leadership and succession pipeline through coaching, sponsorship, stretch assignments, and deliberate talent development.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.
• 9+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years people management experience.
• 12+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year experience reading and/or writing code.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple generations of complex hardware products from concept and architecture through NPI, qualification, production ramp, and deployment at scale.
• Deep technical understanding in one or more areas of AI infrastructure, accelerated computing, server/rack architecture, networking, power delivery, thermal/liquid cooling, silicon, or complex electromechanical systems.
• Systems-engineering and solution-thinking capability with demonstrated ability to influence product architecture and complex technical trade-offs.
• Experience leading geographically distributed technical organizations across the U.S. and Asia.
• Extensive experience working with the Taiwan hardware ecosystem, including ODMs, OEMs, JDMs, manufacturing partners, and component suppliers.
• Proven ability to build and scale technical organizations, operating models, governance mechanisms, and execution frameworks across multiple product portfolios.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate deeply technical issues as clear business decisions, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to executive leadership.

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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