Principal Customer Experience Program Manager
Microsoft
Reston, Virginia, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Sep 17, 2025
3 days / week in-office
Compensation
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About the role
Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Customer Experience Program Manager in the Cloud + Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) Silver Networking Team
Responsibilities
- Engage directly with customers to gather use cases, drive solution implementation, and ensure successful adoption of products/services
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams (engineering, product, marketing, etc.) to drive complex programs from planning through launch
- Champion the “voice of the customer” internally, advocating for product or service changes that improve quality, usability, and reliability
- Communicate requirements effectively to partner and service teams to provide clarity needed to drive remediation, utilizing meetings, briefings, and escalations to support program activities
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks throughout the program lifecycle, implementing change management strategies as needed
- You will help close deals by representing engineering stakeholder interests, leading the procurement of resources, and providing insights that enable complex, innovative product features
- You will also guide others to determine if customers have met conditions of success, rescope and revaluate complex projects, and identify improvements to evaluation tools and customer engagement methods
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience
- Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions
- Track record of successfully driving mission critical, complex projects
- Experience shipping cloud services
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CISSP, CCAK, Azure and/or AWS Certifications)
- Understanding of Azure or AWS cloud computing services/deployment architecture (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- A good understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, and load balancing
- Demonstrated success in customer-facing scenarios involving network design, troubleshooting, or optimization
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401k matching
- Flight privileges
- Generous time away
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Savings and investments
- Discounts on products and services
- Opportunities to network and connect
About the Company
Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Customer Experience Program Manager in the Cloud + Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) Silver Networking Team
Job Details
Salary Range
$139,900 - $274,800/yearly
Location
Reston, Virginia, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-Time
Original Posting
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