Principal Technical Program Manager

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the organization that builds, operates, and continuously evolves the infrastructure behind the Microsoft Cloud, powering services used by more than 95% of Fortune 500 companies. CO+I is responsible for the full datacenter lifecycle from global planning and site acquisition through design, construction, deployment, operations, and eventual decommissioning, spanning 400+ datacenters across more than 70 Azure regions, connected by over 600,000 kilometers of fiber. As the engine that enables Microsoft’s cloud-first mission, CO+I delivers reliable, trusted, secure, and sustainable cloud and AI infrastructure to meet customer growth and support Microsoft’s broader mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more. The CO+I Artificial Intelligence (AI) Delivery organization is responsible for enabling Microsoft’s next generation of hyperscale AI supercomputing capacity. The team has close collaboration throughout Microsoft, as these initiatives will be at the forefront of innovation, involving pilot programs and other experiments that shape our continued dedication to delivering AI platform services quickly and on a large scale.  AI Network Acceleration exists to make AI capacity delivery predictable, repeatable, and fast at global scale. This role is central to that mission. We are hiring a  Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) to drive design validation and readiness assessment for AI data center network infrastructure, with deep focus on GPU platforms, backend networks, and high-performance fabrics that power large-scale AI training and inference. This role will co-own backend network readiness with platform and engineering partners—ensuring that AI network designs are not only technically sound, but deployable, scalable, and operationally viable in real data centers. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of architecture, execution, and acceleration. This role directly determines how fast AI capacity reaches production. You will influence how GPU clusters and AI networks are validated, deployed, and scaled globally. Your work turns complexity into execution certainty.  This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Redmond, WA, Atlanta, GA, San Antonio, TX, Phoenix, AZ, or Washington DC. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates should relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. This role is hybrid work,  3 days / week in-office" Responsibilities Turn record-breaking AI infrastructure acceleration into the global operating standard. This role sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure engineering, data-center deployment, network architecture, capacity delivery, operational excellence, and organizational transformation.The Principal Technical Program Manager will take proven AI Network and GPU capacity acceleration practices—from design validation and deployment readiness through regional network readiness, infrastructure optimization, and deployment execution—and convert them into repeatable, measurable, and globally adopted capabilities.This is not a traditional program-management role.It is a technical execution and scaling leadership role designed for someone who can move comfortably between architecture conversations, critical-path deployment problems, executive decisions, engineering teams, regional operations, and global process transformation.The successful candidate will help provide solutions to make extraordinary deployment performance repeatable everywhere.

Lead Global AI Infrastructure Deployment Acceleration: Own the development, training workforce and scaling of a global AI network and infrastructure acceleration operating model spanning Commercial Cloud, new AI regions, new data centers, colo expansions, and large-scale GPU deployments. Translate successful deployment practices into repeatable architectures, operating mechanisms, technical decision