Do you want to help scale out Microsoft Research’s most ambitious innovations in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space? We are building the future for AI and the world and are looking for a program manager who can accelerate that future.

The Microsoft Research AI Frontiers group is doing foundational research, pursuing ambitious disruptions, and creating technological and societal impact. Our research spans multiple areas in Machine Learning such as foundational model training and fine-tuning, agent platform and evaluation.

We’re looking to add a new Senior Technical Program Manager to our group who would partner closely with researchers and engineers in the agentic space to create a strategy and roadmap for our most ambitious endeavors and drive the execution of one the most successful agentic frameworks in Open Source AutoGen. To be successful, we need people who are versed in Machine Learning, creative, comfortable with navigating ambiguity, and are deeply collaborative. This is a very exciting space with plenty of room for you to help foster new innovations, champion cross-division partnerships and build a diverse network of experts.

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.

• Partner with ML researchers and engineers to create clarity, identify the highest value opportunities, and drive execution of our agentic research.
• Drive and grow our Open-Source Agentic ecosystem to create impact through our ambitious projects.
• Manage ambiguity and define scale-out options that are well understood and executed across the team and our partners.
• Drive successful agentic project results by contributing to definition of goals, success metrics and prioritization of deliverables.
• Partner effectively with compliance, communications, finance, and strategy colleagues to build advocacy, business case and champion research projects.
• Contribute to the continued development of the product management team and research program.

• Embody our culture and values.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or engineering AND 4+ years experience in product/technical program management, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects and delivering highly effective and collaborative products in a fast-paced, dynamic, and demanding environment (like research in GenAI).
• 2+ years experience managing programs/products in the Machine Learning area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree preferred or 8+ years equivalent experience.
• Experience managing open-source projects.
• Experience in building and growing an open-source community and evangelizing open-source projects.
• 2+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• 6+ years’ experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies and concepts.
• Uphold the organizational culture of acting with integrity and trustworthiness when leading partnerships within and outside of our team.
• Ability to handle critical situations with confidence, directing the team towards effective response.
• Demonstrate the ability to learn and apply learning to improve business outcomes, positive impact for the team and self.

Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 25, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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