Senior Technical Program Manager

Team Xbox is at the forefront of delivering the industry’s best platform and experiences for both players and game developers. We work closely with industry leaders across hardware, software, firmware, services and our 1st and 3rd party game development partners to ensure Microsoft’s platforms are designed and optimized to meet the needs of our most passionate fans and players, whether they choose to play on the Xbox console, their Windows PC or laptop, TVs or mobile devices.

The Xbox Platform Team mission is to lead the Operating System (OS) & Platform for the next generation of gaming across a product portfolio of devices. This team is hiring an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to support growth on the XBOX Platform Team.

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will deliver scalable software platforms for players and developers. You will work across player & developer experiences, commerce, business, and platform to deliver cross-functional features and programs that customers love. You will also be able to leverage customer-first and product leadership as well as technical excellence to meet and exceed customer needs.

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

• Be at the heart of defining, organizing, and driving our overall strategy for current and future gaming products, platforms, and experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform aligns with overall product strategy and user needs. 
• Make and communicate technical and experiential design tradeoffs to lay out a path for achieving team vision.
• Balance in-market product health and performance with the development of our long-term product vision and roadmap.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or software development preferably with consumer facing product and/or large scale development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects and mentoring other Program Managers.
• 2+ years experience working with operating systems, platforms, and integration across platform and devices/experiences with an emphasis on technical knowledge.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development for a consumer facing product
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience working on at least one full product lifecycle of gaming focused products, or equivalent (e.g. Games, XBOX, PlayStation, Steam, etc.) OR other consumer facing product.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• 2+ years people management experience.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 for the role until August 27, 2024