Principal Program Manager

 Microsoft Health and Life Sciences (HLS) catalyzes technology innovation that improves health outcomes, accelerates clinical discoveries, and lowers the cost of high-quality care delivery. We are privileged to drive cross-company strategy in applying Microsoft's extensive technical assets toward improving healthcare and health equity, globally.  

The HLS team builds on the horizontal capabilities of Azure’s expansive cloud platform and with the distinct vertical capabilities of Nuance investments (like DAX) to create novel AI-powered solutions benefitting the HLS ecosystem. We synthesize advances from Microsoft Research with Microsoft's commercial offerings and collaborate closely with partners to implement, evaluate, and evolve our solutions. Our team nurtures opportunities that will shape and define our industry over the next several years.  

We are looking to hire a Principal Program Manager into our team. HLS S&P is interfacing with strategic customers and partners across different segments of the healthcare industry including Payors, Providers, Public Institutions, Pharma, Life Sciences, MedTech, Medical Imaging and Diagnostics. We are looking for a Principal Program Manager who can not only work with customers and partners, but also internal Microsoft teams including product teams to ideate on how to solve GenAI and ML-based complex industry use cases utilizing the horizontal and vertical strengths of the MSFT+Nuance platform. This includes segment needs across the entire Microsoft stack including infrastructure, data, GenAI and applications. The candidate will have relevant experience specific to the Provider and Life Sciences segments as well as familiarity with such specializations as multimodal data, genomics, medical imaging, claims data, clinical trials and others. 

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.

Responsibilities

As a key member of the SEPO Team, responsibilities of the Principal Program Manager will include: 

• Be hands-on with customers and partners to ideate, possibly prototype AI solutions. 
• Be customer-focusrf by acknowledging customer needs and perspectives, validating customer perspectives, focusing on broader customer organization/context, and serving as a trusted advisor.
• Communicate technical and strategic concepts in the AI and machine learning domain to a broad audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders/personas in the health and life sciences ecosystem.
• Specific to GenAI and ML, doing Industry and Research Knowledge / Opportunity Identification to track advances in HLS which includes working with research and product teams. Related to AI, Identify and articulate customer/partner needs, document requirements, establish priorities, refine strategy, and define product scope/feedback.
• Identify and collaborate with internal stakeholders and priority partners to support the hardening and adoption of Microsoft products, and how they can be utilized or advanced to solve for HLS industry use cases.
• Support data scientists, designers, engineers, user researchers and other SMEs who enable Engineering’s research, technical analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and deployment of Microsoft solutions.
• Achieve team goals by working with internal and external stakeholders to plan, scope and manage timeline driven considerations.

• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development

  • OR equivalent experience.

•  2+ years of hands on data science experience. 
• 3+ years 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 screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

The candidate will have experience (1) Data Science experience with HLS data (2) in at least one HLS industry segment (Provider or Life Sciences preferred), (3) working on engagements with large HLS customers, and (4) technical competence (preferably Microsoft). 

• Data Science Experience with specific expertise in the HLS Provider and Life Sciences segments.
• Experience with Microsoft/Azure products and solutions, and technical knowledge regarding machine learning (including NLP) and foundation models.
• Capable of managing complex, cross-functional projects with focus on program strategy, implementation, maintaining RoB, and keeping day-to-day tasks aligned to Microsoft’s strategic goals.
• Motivated by business outcomes and data-driven decision making.

Technical Program Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 29, 2024

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