Senior Technical Program Manager, Xbox Studios Quality

Xbox Studios Quality is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager who brings a growth mindset, a passion for customer success, and an insatiable curiosity to lead program/product development and drive innovation across our portfolios.

To excel in this role, you’ll need a technical background and a deep understanding of machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), data analysis, and various AI models and training workflows. Experience collaborating with Data Scientists, Applied Scientists and Data Engineering to advance programs and product development is essential.

As a key member of the product team, you’ll be instrumental in shaping both the short- and long-term vision for our portfolio. Your expertise will empower you to influence the Data & AI team’s research priorities, while your user-centric and product-focused mindset will help guide our product/program development and strategic roadmap. In addition, your technical skills will enable you to effectively support the engineering team with data analysis and model development.

Comfort with ambiguity, the ability to drive clarity across cross-functional teams, and a talent for influencing organizational practices are all vital for this position. We are a high-performing team with ambitious goals to deliver outstanding customer value by enabling Game Studios to launch world-class gaming experiences that players will love. This position offers a tremendous opportunity to learn, share, and elevate quality across all Xbox Game Studios titles.

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive product/program strategy and innovation across our portfolios.
• Partner with Quality Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Applied Scientists, and Software Engineers, and other domain owners to holistically collate requirements with research and drive program development. 
• Craft specs, work with engineering, and drive results that align with organizational priorities.
• Lead feature teams, including the planning and execution.
• Increase team efficiency and influence our culture of quality with process and technological improvements.
• Identify innovative solutions that will eliminate unnecessary quality cost to engineering.
• Dive deep into complex architectural landscapes and ability to quickly understand technical and programmatic concepts, flows, and design.
• Identify technical needs and gaps and clearly articulate and prioritize to program stakeholders.

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.
• Experience working on projects involving machine learning and/or artificial intelligence.
• Experience working with software quality teams, data scientist, and applied scientist.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with game development or other entertainment fields.
• Experience building, shipping an AI/ML (Artifical Intelligence/Machine Learning) product from 0->1, and iterating on customer-facing experiences.
• Experience in leading cross-functional v-teams to desired outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and drive alignment across product, engineering, design, data, and partners.
• Executive caliber communication skills: clear narratives, crisp tradeoffs, and decision-ready materials.
• Excels at influencing without authority.

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 November 07, 2025.