Principal Technical Program Manager

Microsoft Health and Life Sciences (HLS) catalyzes technology innovation that improves health outcomes, accelerates clinical discoveries, and lowers the cost of high-quality care delivery. We are privileged to drive cross-company strategy in applying Microsoft's extensive technical assets toward improving healthcare and health equity, globally.  

The HLS team builds on the horizontal capabilities of Azure’s expansive cloud platform and with the distinct vertical capabilities of Nuance investments to create novel AI-powered solutions benefitting the HLS ecosystem. We synthesize advances from Microsoft Research with Microsoft's commercial offerings and collaborate closely with partners to implement, evaluate, and evolve our solutions. Our team nurtures opportunities that will shape and define our industry over the next several years.  

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else.  We hire team members who want to join our mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. 

Strategic Engagement Engineering and Programs Office (SEPO) works under Microsoft’s Health & Life Sciences Chief Strategy Officer and is one arm of the HLS S&P Strategy Team. Our overall team charter is to work across all of Microsoft to help develop/advance the overall HLS mission at Microsoft. We act as a key voice of industry and our customers by creating and driving market segment strategies, identifying and helping to execute high impact strategic partnerships, supporting the development and delivery of strategic client and partner engagements, and leading the evolution of the patient engagement business into an extension of our HLS platform.

SEPO serves as a partner to industry and research organizations to support and scale the most strategic engagements for HLS Engineering across prioritized customers, ISVs and GSIs.  We are a single interface aligned to internal collaboration on complex engagements, the hardening and accelerating adoption of Microsoft products, and working with customers and partners to solve for the most complex use cases in the industry.

We are looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager who can work with customers and partners to ideate on how best to solve complex industry use cases utilizing the horizontal and vertical strengths of the MSFT+Nuance platform. HLS S&P is interfacing with strategic customers and partners across different segments of the healthcare industry including Payors, Providers, Public Institutions, Pharma, Life Sciences, MedTech, Medical Imaging and Diagnostics. This includes segment needs across the entire Microsoft stack including infrastructure, data, GenAI and applications.  The candidate will have experience specific to the Provider and Life Sciences segments as well as familiarity with such specializations as multimodal data, genomics, medical imaging, claims data, clinical trials and others.

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

• Communicate technical and strategic concepts in the AI and machine learning domain to a broad audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders/personas in the health and life sciences ecosystem.
• Identify and articulate customer/partner needs, document requirements, establish priorities, refine strategy, and define product scope.
• Identify and collaborate with internal stakeholders and priority partners to support the hardening and adoption of Microsoft products, and how they can be utilized or advanced to solve for HLS industry use cases.
• Support data scientists, designers, engineers, user researchers and other SMEs who enable Engineering’s research, technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and deployment of Microsoft solutions.
• Achieve team goals by working with internal and external stakeholders to plan, scope and manage timeline driven considerations.
• Mitigate risks and dependencies by prioritizing tasks, adjusting scope and working to optimize resource allocation.
• Define, measure, and communicate key metrics reflecting progress.
• Embody our culture and