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Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Within Microsoft Security, the Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) organization safeguards billions of people and enterprises by ensuring reliability, resiliency, and rapid response to emerging risks.

As a **Senior Technical Program Manager** , you will play a pivotal role in strengthening the financial and operational foundations of these services. You will lead cost optimization and efficiency initiatives across global cloud infrastructure, steward financial planning and licensing programs, and drive accountability through clear forecasting, reporting, and governance. This role requires the ability to bridge technical and financial domains, and partnering with engineering, finance, and procurement to deliver sustainable cost strategies, operational excellence, and measurable business impact. The successfull candidate combines deep program management experience with financial acumen and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders to align resources, reduce costs, and scale securely.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

+ **Cloud Cost Optimization:** Drive initiatives to reduce infrastructure and operational costs by identifying efficiency levers, influencing engineering decisions, and implementing sustainable cost-reduction strategies.

+ **Supporting Financial Planning & Forecasting:** Support end-to-end cost modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis to support accurate financial planning and executive reporting of organizational COGS.

+ **Strategic Program Leadership:** Lead high-visibility programs focused on cost governance and operational excellence, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

+ **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner with engineering, finance, revenue, and product teams to define priorities, track progress, and ensure accountability for cost and efficiency goals.

+ **Data-Driven Insights:** Leverage analytics to monitor performance, identify trends, and provide actionable recommendations to leadership

+ **Executive Communications & Reporting** : Develop clear, concise executive communications and reporting that translate complex technical and financial scenarios into decision-ready insights. Tailor messaging to different audiences (engineering, finance, executive leadership) to ensure clarity, alignment, and timely decision-making.

Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

+ 2+ years of experience in data analysis, and reporting tools; ability to translate insights into strategic actions using visualization platforms such as Kusto, Power BI, or Grafana.

Other Requirements:

Ability 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.

Prefered Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years' experience engineering, product/technical program management, or data analysis

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

+ Effective communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

+ Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and drive alignment across product, engineering, design, data, and go to market partners.

+ Executive caliber communication skills: clear narratives, crisp trade offs, and decision ready materials.

+ Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, cost drivers, and optimization strategies.

+ Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional programs with measurable financial and operational impact.

Technical 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 20, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .