Senior Technical Program Manager, Global AI Scaling

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 and connected by one of the world's largest global networks. The CO+I AI Delivery organization is responsible for enabling the next generation of hyperscale AI capacity. The team works across engineering, datacenter planning, deployment, operations, supply chain, and product organizations to translate rapidly evolving AI technologies into scalable, production-ready infrastructure solutions delivered around the world.

We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager, Global AI Scaling to drive CO+I readiness to scale the next generations of AI hardware into our global datacenter infrastructure. In this role, you will drive technical readiness for emerging GPU technologies, partnering across engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, and deployment organizations to enable rapid global adoption of new AI platforms. You will help define how new technologies are introduced into Microsoft's datacenter ecosystem, ensuring infrastructure, deployment, supply chain and operational capabilities evolve to meet the demands of rapidly evolving AI workloads. This role requires a technically strong leader who can navigate complex infrastructure challenges, drive alignment across diverse stakeholders, and simplify complex topics into clear recommendations to support effective leadership decision-making.

Lead readiness efforts for next-generation GPU infrastructure, ensuring datacenter, deployment, operational, and supply chain requirements are understood and incorporated into future deployment plans. Partner across engineering, supply chain, datacenter design, deployment, and operations teams to assess the impact of new AI hardware technologies and enable successful global adoption at scale. Support development of improved deployment methodologies to increase speed, predictability, scalability, and operational readiness for future generations of AI infrastructure. Collaborate with stakeholders to establish scalable processes and frameworks that support rapid worldwide deployment of new GPU technologies. Drive infrastructure-related feasibility assessments for new programs, identifying technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and readiness gaps associated with emerging AI platforms. Lead cross-functional efforts to resolve complex technical challenges related to datacenter infrastructure, power, cooling, deployment readiness, and operational scale. Translate technical risks, infrastructure tradeoffs, and deployment challenges into actionable recommendations for leadership and partner organizations. Capture and operationalize lessons learned from large-scale AI infrastructure deployments to improve future delivery efficiency, quality, and scalability. Drive alignment across a broad range of stakeholders to identify practical, technically sound solutions that balance business objectives, deployment timelines, and infrastructure constraints. Contribute to planning and execution activities that shape Microsoft's future AI infrastructure deployment capabilities.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience. 2+ 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