Technical Program Manager (CoreAI)

Core AI is at the forefront of Microsoft's mission to redefine how softwareisbuilt and experiencedin the AI era. Our product portfolio includes vital developer tools like VS Code, Visual Studio, GitHub, AI Foundry, and others. Our work enables developers and enterprises to harness the full potential of AI to create intelligent, adaptive, and transformative software.

The EngThrive Insights teamis responsible forunderstanding thedeveloperexperience through rigorous data analysis and applied research. Our mission is to deliver insightsthat enable Microsoft to be the best place to work as an engineer, where it is fast and easy to dogreat work.

In this role, you will serve as a Principal Program Manager owning the product vision, roadmap, and strategy for the EngThrive developer productivity platform. You will define how Microsoft measures and improves engineering effectiveness at scale, partnering with internal engineering teams to understand their productivity challenges, translating those into a prioritized platform backlog, and shipping data-driven capabilities that help teams become true AI-first, frontier development organizations. You will work closely with Core AI CVP leadership to form an opinionated perspective on the future of software development productivity, and ensure our analytical systems evolve to match.

Success in this position requires deep versatility across software engineering, data analytics, AI tooling,and change management --combined with the ability to drive cross-divisional alignment andexecution.

• Define and own a multi-year product vision for the EngThrive developer productivity platform at Microsoft:with a clear roadmap.

• Growthe platform with the rigor of an external productplatform: prioritized backlog, release planning, adoptionanalysis, and deprecation policies.

• Own the end-to-end developerinsightexperienceacross thedeveloper workflow,from environment provisioning and code authoring,through CI/CD, review, deployment, and incident response

• Drive the company's AI-assisted and agentic coding strategy: form an opinionated, data-backed perspective on where AI toolingis best servedand ship integrated AI capabilities into the platform.

• Partner with data scientists to go beyond dashboards:prioritization of research,controlled experiments, and predictive models where every study has a clear line toproductivity gains.

• Operate as an executive-level strategic voice: translate complex productivity data into narratives that drive investment decisions, influence VP/CVP engineering leaders on practices andtooling,andestablish org-level productivity targets.

• Shape the company's external position in developer productivity:through strategic partnerships,standardsparticipation, and conference presence.

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.

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ yearsof experienceintechnical programmanagementor related discipline, with 5+ yearsof experienceon platform or developer-facing products at scale

• 5+ years of experience workingdirectly with an engineeringorganizationtoimproveproductivity.

• 3+ years of experience insupportofdata science and/or research efforts.

• Experience shipping AI-powered capabilities or defining an AI tooling strategy, particularly around AI-assisted or agentic coding.

• Experience building or managing data products; analytics platforms, measurement systems, or insight engines.