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About the Role

As a Principal Project Manager, you will help customers reimagine the future of work and drive transformation by shaping their agenda and turning ambitious ideas into measurable outcomes. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders to align on vision, orchestrate delivery across complex workstreams, and ensure engagements move customers closer to their strategic goals. You will drive project initiation and execution for large, complex customer programs, representing the customer's voice inside Microsoft, managing risks, and ensuring delivery quality, security, and financial performance. You will lead cross-functional teams and partner ecosystems to ensure projects create lasting value for customers and define what's next for Telco, Media, and Technology customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive project initiation and planning for large, complex customer projects by securing delivery resources, assigning them across workstreams, and creating detailed work breakdown structures in alignment with customer plans.
• Lead end-to-end project planning and execution with urgency to accelerate customer time to value, balancing scope, resources, schedule, quality, and security to deliver predictable outcomes for high-visibility engagements.
• Leverage artificial intelligence and AI-assisted development in project execution to responsibly scale output, accelerate delivery, and improve outcomes for customers.
• Proactively manage risks and issues across large, complex projects by evaluating trends, defining mitigation strategies, and ensuring completion of required information security risk assessments and related reviews.
• Lead customer and partner contracting processes, including onboarding partner resources, monitoring contract amendments, delivery acceptance, proof of delivery, and invoicing, while ensuring adherence to security and data governance standards.
• Establish clear expectations and accountabilities with project team members and stakeholders, leading internal and external kick-off meetings and engaging a broad set of internal and external stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Navigate ambiguous business challenges, make decisions that drive execution, and apply sound judgment to solve problems.
• Harvest existing IP for re-use, drive incremental improvement to delivery assets, and share learnings with peers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 5+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years direct industry experience in Telecommunications, Media or Hyperscaler/ISVs.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 12+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years financial management experience.
• 2+ years technical program management and hypervelocity engineering experience.

Skills

• Project Management
• Telecommunications
• Media
• Hyperscaler/ISVs
• Financial Management
• Technical Program Management
• Hypervelocity Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• AI-assisted development

Experience Level

• Principal

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree

Salary/Compensations

• USD $124,500 - $214,600 per year (US)
• USD $154,500 - $231,700 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

• At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.