Principal Program Manager
Microsoft
Principal Program Manager
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Copilot Studio, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.
Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform that allows users to rapidly build customized end-to-end business solutions. Microsoft Copilot Studio is a graphical, low-code tool for building agents and agent flows.
We are looking for a Principal Program Manager to join our Copilot Studio CAT team.
The Power Platform and Copilot Studio Customer Advisory Team (Power CAT) is an agile customer-facing team within the Business & Industry Copilots (BIC) engineering group, helping customers drive up the adoption of Power Platform & Microsoft Copilot Studio products.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of customer-facing experience.
- 2+ years of solution architecture experience.
- 4+ years of experience with key Power Platform technologies and areas.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with any of the following:
- Power Apps
- Power Automate Cloud Flows & Desktop Flows
- Power Platform governance, security & administration
- Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Dataverse
- AI Builder
- Power Platform pro-dev extensibility patterns
- Experience with Copilot Studio or related technologies and areas:
- Power Virtual Agents
- Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Azure AI Bot Service
- Nuance Mix
- Integration with other Azure AI solutions (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, etc.)
- OR relevant technologies from conversational AI or AI agent competitor platforms.
Customer Experience Program Mgmt IC5 - 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.
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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
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Responsibilities
- Be the technical expert on the ground with the customer team to increase confidence in the product capabilities & drive adoption.
- Own the relationships with multiple stakeholders within the customer accounts (ranging from leadership to architects & partners) to drive adoption and unblock issues.
- Understand the technical challenges, constraints and blockers faced by customers and provide recommendations for solving these challenges by suggesting multiple solutions and workarounds along with pros and cons for each approach, to enable the customer / partner team to successfully deploy solutions in production.
- Influence various product team owners to prioritize product features that are blocking customer scenarios by sharing feedback, explaining customer context & importance, and by leveraging leadership escalation, as necessary.
- Be the bridge between engineering & customer teams and own action items from customer engagements and drive them to completion by sharing regular updates to all the stakeholders, identifying the right owners for each action item, and regularly following up with the owners to completion.
- Occasional travel (25% to 50%) is expected in this role.