Technical Program Manager, Pretraining Data (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: USD $119,800–$234,700 per year across the U.S.; USD $160,200–$261,000 per year in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.

Company

Microsoft AI builds frontier AI models and products spanning pretraining, post-training, evaluation, and launch.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end program execution across multiple parallel data workstreams, tracking decisions, dependencies, and action items through closure while identifying and escalating risks.
• Drive readiness for major data and model releases by coordinating quality checks, approvals, and sign-offs across research, engineering, and other contributing teams.
• Build stakeholder relationships, understand technical dependencies, and translate discussions into clear decisions, owners, and execution plans.
• Communicate program status, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to leadership and stakeholders.
• Build and improve operational structures, tracking mechanisms, processes, and reviews for ambiguous technical programs.
• Partner effectively on data usage and licensing compliance and incorporate competitive and broader AI industry context into planning and risk assessment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of technical program or product management experience in a fast-paced technical organization.
• Successful experience managing multiple complex, interdependent workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to engage with engineers and researchers on data pipelines, systems, or infrastructure topics without needing to be an expert practitioner.
• A pragmatic, bias-for-action approach to problem-solving, including unblocking progress without perfect information or fully defined processes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including synthesizing complex, distributed information into clear, actionable guidance.
• Ability to build trust and influence outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Experience operating autonomously in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with research, product, engineering, legal, and compliance stakeholders.
• Centralized Technical Program Management team embedded with the stakeholders it supports.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and additional compensation.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during the application process.

Hiring process

• The position remains open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.