Technical Program Management, Model Development

Overview

At Microsoft AI, we build the frontier models and products that reach millions of people, from pretraining through post‑training, evaluation, and launch. Our Technical Program Managers are a centralized team, embedded deeply with the research, product, and engineering stakeholders they support, driving execution across every pillar and workstream. This role sits inside that pipeline, helping turn ambitious research into shipped, trusted systems.

What You’ll Do

As a Technical Program Manager you will own end‑to‑end execution across the model development lifecycle, partnering with research and applied‑science leads to shape goals, priorities, and success metrics, and managing planning, milestones, dependencies, and risk across training, evaluation, and launch. You will be the connective tissue between research, engineering, product, and safety teams, translating fast‑changing research priorities into clear plans, reasoning about trade‑offs in data, compute, and evaluation methodology, and surfacing risks to leadership before they become blockers.

Responsibilities

• Own end‑to‑end execution of complex technical programs across the model development lifecycle, translating research goals into clear plans, milestones, and success metrics.
• Reason about technical trade‑offs in model training, evaluation, data, and infrastructure, and coordinate across research, engineering, and product to keep work unblocked.
• Communicate program status, risk, and trade‑offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership, providing lightweight structure to fast‑moving, ambiguous research work.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in technical program management, with a track record of delivering complex, cross‑functional programs, ideally spanning pretraining, post‑training, or evaluation.
• Technical fluency to reason about model training, evaluation methodology, data, and infrastructure trade‑offs, and engage credibly with researchers and engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment and influencing without formal authority.

Pay

Technical Program Management IC6 – typical base pay range across the U.S.: USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year. In the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area: USD $220,800 – $331,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for additional benefits and compensation.