Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.
AI is reshaping how organizations operate, increasing both the pace of innovation and the need for disciplined execution. As AI and agentic workflows become embedded in core business processes, organizations must rethink how they plan, govern, and execute—using data, automation, and modern operating models to move faster with greater clarity and control.
Microsoft Security sits at the intersection of identity, data, cloud, and AI. To lead in this environment, the organization must not only build world-class capabilities, but also continuously modernize how work gets done across strategy, planning, governance, and cross-functional execution.
Within the Executive Office, we are seeking a Principal TPM Manager who will set the strategy and lead the team responsible for scaling Microsoft Security’s capacity and engineering efficiency function as a strategic operating capability. The role establishes the shared standards, decision rights, operating rhythms, and accountability mechanisms that empower engineering teams to innovate faster while operating within margin targets and improving the AI-driven economics of capacity, utilization, and cost at enterprise scale.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
This role defines and scales the work governance model for how Microsoft Security manages capacity, engineering efficiency, and resource economics as strategic business capabilities.
- Set the strategy and operating model for Capacity & Engineering Efficiency as a core lever for innovation, margin discipline, and resource economics.
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- Lead the management system for infrastructure, AI, and engineering capacity, defining the decision rights, operating rhythms, and governance mechanisms that improve planning and optimization.
- Establish FinOps and AI FinOps as durable engineering capabilities, driving the change management needed to embed cost, token, and margin accountability into engineering and product teams.
- Manage the portfolio of highest-impact margin optimization opportunities, translating capacity, utilization, and AI consumption signals into business decisions and measurable outcomes.
- Standardize shared metrics, accountability mechanisms, and execution practices that improve transparency, consistency, and work governance across engineering organizations.
- Build and lead a high-performing TPM organization with the leadership depth, systems thinking, and influence needed to drive sustained transformation at scale.
Capabilities and Experience
- Builds and leads high-performing TPM, operations, or transformation teams in large-scale engineering environments.
- Sets strategy and translates complex business, technical, and financial challenges into scalable operating models and measurable outcomes.
- Brings deep expertise in capacity management, infrastructure economics, engineering efficiency, FinOps, AI FinOps, or cloud systems optimization.
- Uses data, systems thinking, and executive communication to shape investment, prioritization, resource allocation, and margin trade-offs.
- Designs shared standards, decision mechanisms, operating rhythms, and metrics that improve execution quality, accountability, and operating discipline.
- Leads through influence across engineering, product, finance, and business teams to drive adoption, behavior change, and sustained impact at scale.
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years people management experience.
- 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional programs in complex engineering or cloud environments.
- Experience partnering with senior engineering, product, finance, and business leaders to drive execution and business outcomes
- Experience in capacity management, infrastructure efficiency, FinOps, or related cost optimization disciplines.
- Technical fluency in distributed systems and cloud cost drivers, including compute, storage, networking, and token-based workloads.
- Experience driving cross-organizational changes through influence in highly matrixed environments.
- Experience using data, telemetry, and metrics to improve cost, performance, and operational efficiency.
Technical Program Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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