Technical Product Manager, Model Development (AI)

Location: Mountain View, California, United States

Salary: USD $220,800–$331,200 per year in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area; USD $165,600–$296,400 per year across the rest of the United States.

Company

Microsoft AI builds frontier models and products reaching millions of people, from pretraining through post-training, evaluation, and launch.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end execution of complex technical programs across the model development lifecycle.
• Partner with research and applied science leads to define goals, priorities, plans, milestones, and success metrics.
• Coordinate training, evaluation, and launch work across research, engineering, product, and safety teams.
• Assess trade-offs involving model training, evaluation methodology, data, compute, and infrastructure.
• Communicate program status, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership, surfacing blockers early.

Requirements

• Significant technical program management experience and a track record of delivering complex, cross-functional programs.
• Experience ideally spanning pretraining, post-training, or evaluation.
• Technical fluency in model training, evaluation methodology, data, and infrastructure trade-offs, with the ability to engage credibly with researchers and engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment and influence without formal authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is embedded across research, product, engineering, and safety stakeholders.
• Benefits and other compensation may be available depending on role eligibility.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.