Job Summary:
Microsoft is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join their NPI team, focused on enhancing productivity and effectiveness through data systems and applied AI. The role involves leading the development of tools and workflows, mentoring PMs, and driving change management across the product portfolio.
Responsibilities:
• Lead engagements with engineering, data, and leadership stakeholders; drive end-to-end delivery of products and workflows from problem framing through adoption and measurable impact.
• Establish reusable platforms, dashboards, and automations that scale across the product portfolio; influence PM operating norms and drive change management to ensure adoption.
• Own the data model and information architecture that consolidates fragmented NPI inputs (build records, supplier data, engineering trackers, meeting notes) into clean, query able sources of truth.
• Deliver portfolio-level tooling that surfaces risks earlier and highlights cross-program patterns, enabling leadership to make mitigation decisions that balance business and operational objectives.
• Architect and ship LLM-based and agentic workflows for status synthesis, risk surfacing, action tracking, and cross-program reporting; set the technical patterns and guardrails others build on.
• Mentor PMs and partners on data, automation, and applied AI practices; raise the technical bar of the NPI PM function.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field AND 4+ years experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, program management, hardware development, or consumer electronics
• OR equivalent experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations or a related area.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred:
• Master's Degree Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, program management, hardware development, or consumer electronics
• OR Bachelor's Degree Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field AND 8+ years experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations, program management, hardware development, or consumer electronics
• OR equivalent experience in engineering, manufacturing, operations or a related area.
• Proven track record shipping internal tools, automations, or AI agents that drove measurable productivity gains for a team or organization; fluency with structured data and SQL plus scripting (e.g., Python).
• Working knowledge of LLMs and agentic AI frameworks (e.g., function calling, RAG, multi-step agents, evaluation loops);
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives that span PLM, ERP, and other supply chain systems.
Company:
Microsoft provides computer software, consumer electronics, cloud computing platforms, and digital enterprise systems. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Redmond, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.