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CO+I is responsible for the full datacenter lifecycle from global planning and site acquisition through design, construction, deployment, operations, and eventual decommissioning, spanning 400+ datacenters across more than 70 Azure regions and connected by one of the world's largest global networks.\nThe CO+I AI Delivery organization is responsible for enabling the next generation of hyperscale AI capacity. The team works across engineering, datacenter planning, deployment, operations, supply chain, and product organizations to translate rapidly evolving AI technologies into scalable, production-ready infrastructure solutions delivered around the world.\nWe are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, AI Inferencing Automation & Tooling to transform how we plan and deploy AI inferencing capacity at global scale. You will own our automation and tooling roadmap and lead the strategy to connect data across CO+I and partner organizations into a trusted, shared foundation. You will find where automation and AI can eliminate manual work and streamline handoffs, giving our program managers the data and tools they need to rapidly scale Microsoft's global AI fleet.\nThis role calls for a technically fluent program leader who understands datacenter infrastructure and is energized by turning complexity into simple, scalable solutions. You won't design the tools yourself, but you'll know our data and processes well enough to ask precise questions, challenge assumptions, and hold your own in technical discussions with engineering partners. You can see past individual requests to the underlying problem, make clear tradeoffs when everything feels urgent, and bring diverse stakeholders together around a shared vision.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the AI Inferencing portfolio automation and tooling roadmap, including the vision, priorities, and sequencing for new tools, features, and AI-enabled capabilities.\nAssess current processes, tools, and workflows to find gaps, manual effort, handoffs, and chances to apply automation or AI.\nBuild and drive a strategy to connect data across CO+I and partner organizations so we have a single source of truth, fewer reconciliation steps, and better decision-making.\nOwn intake and prioritization of new tool and feature requests. Use clear criteria to keep engineering resources focused on the projects with the highest business impact.\nDefine business and functional requirements, user stories, and success metrics, and turn operational needs into clear, actionable specifications for engineering partners.\nDefine user interface and user experience requirements so tools are intuitive, efficient, and adopted by the people who use them.\nPlan and manage user acceptance testing. Coordinate test teams, set acceptance criteria, triage issues, and confirm release readiness.\nPartner with engineering, data, planning, deployment, and operations teams to align on data definitions, system integrations, and dependencies.\nDrive adoption and change management for new tools and processes, including communications, training, and feedback loops.\nMeasure and report the impact of automation and tooling investments, such as time saved, data quality, cycle-time reduction, and user adoption, to leadership audiences.\nSimplify complex technical and data topics into clear recommendations and tradeoffs that support leadership decisions.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\n2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\nOther Requirements:\nAbility 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.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product developmentOR equivalent experience.\n\n6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.\n1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).\n4+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Product Management, Datacenter Operations, Engineering, Business Systems, Data/Analytics, or related disciplines.\nExperience identifying process inefficiencies and driving automation, digital transformation, or workflow redesign initiatives.\nExperience defining user requirements for new tools or features.\nDemonstrated ability to influence outcomes and drive alignment across organizations without direct authority.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including experience presenting to leadership audiences.\nExperience with hyperscale cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure, datacenter delivery, or large-scale technology deployment programs.\nExperience owning a product or automation roadmap, including requirements definition, backlog management, and prioritization across competing stakeholder requests.\nKnowledge of datacenter infrastructure, including space, power, and cooling systems.\nExperience in data science, data engineering, analytics, or business intelligence, such as SQL, Power BI, data modeling, or pipeline concepts.\nExperience leading change management and driving tool adoption across large, distributed user communities.\nPassion for removing manual work and building scalable, data-driven ways of working\n#COICareers | #EPCCareers | #DCDCareers\nTechnical 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.\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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