Microsoft Principal Technical Program Manager Bing Places 

United States, Washington 

333137864

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile app and web development or with software platform projects.
• Experience managing execution and high-quality product delivery.
  
• Ability to solve software engineering challenges.

• Partner with Software Engineering and Product Management to design complex technical solutions across feature areas. Give key stakeholders data-driven recommendations based on identified risks.
• Provide program management, technical, and organizational leadership.
• Lead strategic planning for a complex program portfolio including influence over resourcing decisions, planning cadence, and planning stakeholders.
• Build and deliver roadmaps for multiple feature groups across divisions, track project schedules, drive development of staging and implementation plans, and lead governance programs.
• Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas for highly complex cross-functional projects. Coordinate and ensure alignment across the business.
• Drive continuous improvements by validating use cases. Also provide the expertise needed for teams to collect performance metrics, understand user engagement, build feedback loops, and recommend adaptations for optimizations.
• Be a change advocate responsible for initiating and leading multiple organizations through pivots needed to address shifts in business and user needs, trends, and priorities.