Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Apr 18, 2027

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$214,600 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 651 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Technical Program Manager

The Principal Technical Program Manager - FDE joins the Frontier Company Engineering team to lead complex technical programs for strategic customers. Working within a Forward Deployed Engineering model, you will embed directly with customer teams to solve difficult challenges and ship production-ready solutions. You will own the full customer journey from problem definition to delivery, collaborating with multidisciplinary crews of software engineers, data scientists, and designers. Your daily work involves applying AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate requirements-to-specs and generating high-quality engineering artifacts. You must operate fluently in engineering tooling such as VS Code, GitHub, and AI agents. The role focuses on delivering AI-powered cloud and data solutions while navigating ambiguity to provide data-driven recommendations and reusable solution patterns in high-stakes environments.

What does a Technical Program Manager earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 33 postings across 14 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead complex technical programs from initial problem definition through to final production delivery.
  • Embed with strategic customers to align their business needs with AI, cloud, and data engineering solutions.
  • Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle to accelerate requirements, specs, and engineering artifacts.
  • Operate within engineering tools like VS Code and GitHub to manage planning, documentation, and program leadership.
  • Make technical and program decisions independently while navigating ambiguity and managing risks in customer environments.
  • Partner with multi-disciplinary teams to design and deliver AI-powered cloud solutions side-by-side with customer engineers.
  • Create and maintain reusable solution patterns, open-source assets, and engineering playbooks to scale impact.
  • Provide data-driven recommendations to stakeholders based on identified technical risks and trade-offs.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
  • Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development or equivalent experience (preferred).
  • 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects (preferred).
  • 1+ year of experience reading and/or writing code, such as sample documentation or product demos (preferred).
  • 1+ year of experience in customer-facing technical roles like consulting, solutions engineering, or field engineering (preferred).
  • Experience with AI/ML technologies, cloud architecture, data engineering, and using AI tools and workflows to create software engineering artifacts (preferred).
  • Ability to travel up to 25% (preferred).

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