{"id":1436763,"url":"https://alion.io/job/microsoft-technical-program-management-ic5","title":"Technical Program Management IC5","company":{"id":18,"name":"Microsoft","domain":"microsoft.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/microsoft","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":27,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Mountain View, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":142800,"max":274800,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":274800},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T21:32:59Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T05:59:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"OverviewAt Microsoft AI, we are building advanced AI systems that help people and organizations achieve more. We are creating a trusted, repeatable system that turns high-value Microsoft product data into compliant, secure, researcher-ready assets for AI training and evaluation while protecting users and honoring product commitments.\nThis individual-contributor role sits within the Microsoft AI Lab and drives the day-to-day technical program work required to move high-value data from request through compliant acquisition, preparation, access, use, and refresh. We’re looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager who can coordinate across research, product, engineering, legal, privacy, security, Responsible AI, and data operations teams to keep complex data programs moving.\nYou will own execution across the data lifecycle: clarifying researcher requirements, identifying accountable source owners, ensuring data is properly obtained and approved, coordinating secure transfer and access, overseeing scrubbing and quality validation, documenting permitted uses and controls, and maintaining reliable refresh and deletion processes. You will manage technical relationships across teams, surface risks early, and unblock dependencies so approved data reaches researchers in a usable and compliant form.\nThe ideal candidate is a hands-on, low-ego operator who brings structure to ambiguous technical and compliance workflows, builds trust across organizational boundaries, and drives issues to resolution without relying on formal authority. They communicate clearly, maintain accurate operating records, and create repeatable mechanisms that improve delivery speed, data quality, and control adherence.\nThis role is based in Redmond, WA or Mountain View, CA. You are required to be in the office 4 days per week.\nResponsibilities\nDrive data programs from intake through delivery by translating researcher needs into clear requirements, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.\n\nUnblock acquisition and access by coordinating with product data owners, engineering teams, legal, privacy, security, Responsible AI, procurement, and external partners; escalate decisions with concise context and recommended paths.\n\nManage day-to-day technical relationships with source teams and data partners, including data specifications, transfer methods, schemas, storage, access patterns, service expectations, issue resolution, and refresh commitments.\n\nEnsure data is properly obtained, documented, and used within approved purposes and restrictions by maintainingevidence of source, authorization, provenance, lineage, consent or opt-out requirements, retention, deletion, and access controls.\n\nCoordinate data preparation and remediation, including ingestion, scrubbing, de-identification, credential and PII removal, deduplication, filtering, quality checks, and validation against researcher requirements and compliance controls.\n\nOversee recurring refreshes and lifecycle operations by defining schedules, monitoring freshnessand deliveryhealth, resolving failures, validatingreplacement datasets, and ensuring expired or disallowed data is removed as required.\n\nMaintain clear program artifacts and operating rhythms, including status, decisions, risks, control evidence, issue logs, handoffs, and metrics for cycle time, quality, refresh reliability, compliance, and researcher readiness.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data operations, privacy-sensitive technology, or equivalent experience.\n\nExperience driving complex, cross-organizational technical programs with multiple dependencies, clear milestones, risk management, and measurable delivery outcomes.\n\nExperience working with data pipelines or lifecycle operations, including acquisition, ingestion, transformation, quality validation, access, refresh, retention, and deletion.\n\nDemonstrated ability to influence without authority, build productive technical relationships, resolve ambiguous ownership, and communicate decisions and escalations clearly.\n\nWorking knowledge of AI training and evaluation data and relevant controls, including privacy, data protection, IP and licensing, security, Responsible AI, consent, provenance, lineage, access restrictions, de-identification, and permitteduse.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree AND 8+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, AI data operations, data governance, privacy-sensitive products, or equivalent experience.\n\nExperience delivering data programs across product, research, engineering, legal, privacy, security, Responsible AI, and platform teams in a large or highly regulated environment.\n\nStrong technical judgment and written communication skills, with experience defining operational controls, troubleshooting data delivery issues, creating scalable processes, and using metrics to improve cycle time, quality, compliance, and refresh reliability.\n\nTechnical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft 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. 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