Principal Program Management Manager, Data Engineering

Are you passionate about data and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of marketing at Microsoft? Do you thrive at the intersection of business strategy, technical depth, and platform-scale problem-solving? If so, we invite you to join us in a critical leadership role.

We are seeking two Principal Program Management Managers, Data Engineering to oversee the development of an organization-wide portfolio of data capabilities, ensuring responsive and high-quality data for business needs. These positions demand leaders with a passion for leveraging data to address business challenges, as well as the enthusiasm to manage a team of skilled technical program managers. The successful candidates will play a critical role in shaping how one of the world's largest companies utilizes data to foster meaningful connections with every customer.

Marketing at Microsoft sits at the strategic apex of the company-connecting product, sales, and customer engagement. At the heart of this complex and dynamic ecosystem lies data: vast, distributed, and rich with potential. We are building a world-class data platform to harness that potential-one that federates across a wide network of engineering teams, while centralizing what matters most to enable speed, trust, and actionable insights.

The Global Marketing Engines and Experiences (GMEE) Data Engineering team is on a mission to deliver a connected and intelligent data ecosystem that fuels personalized, impactful, and data-driven marketing at scale. We're designing for a world where reusable data building blocks flow through a discoverable marketplace, analytics are democratized, and insights emerge in real time from both the edge and the core.

Join us and help turn Microsoft Marketing into a model of data-powered transformation for the industry.

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:

• Own the relationships with multiple Data Engineering stakeholders within the Marketing organization, and be the bridge between business teams and Data Engineering
• Deeply understand the business strategy and needs of our customers, and continuously identify opportunities
• Lead a team to define technical requirements based on business specifications, build data capability roadmaps, create data quality and monitoring requirements, collaborate with Data Engineers to implement successful solutions and influence and negotiate with partner stakeholders for cross-team dependencies impacting roadmaps
• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
• Foster a culture of agility, innovation, and customer-focus within the team
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 3+ years of experience in program management in the IT arena for a large highly matrixed organization (of 2,000+ employees).
• Experience growing partnerships by forging a relationship with internal/external clients, understanding their objectives, and recommending best strategies.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• Experience working in Marketing.

Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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