Principal Project Manager - Manufacturing and Mobility

Overview

Collaborate with brilliant minds who challenge, inspire, and elevate each other to new heights. As a Principal Project Manager - Manufacturing and Mobility within Industry Solutions Delivery, you help customers unlock the power of artificial intelligence enabled consulting to transform their businesses. You work with some of Microsoft’s most strategic customers, leading complex delivery engagements where your ability to connect business outcomes with technology-driven change is critical to success.

In this role, you lead large, visible consulting projects end to end, from initiation through closure, across multiple workstreams and stakeholders. You orchestrate commitments of delivery resources, align scope, schedule, and budget to customer plans, and proactively manage project risks, issues, and financial performance. You represent Microsoft to senior customer executives, act as the voice of the customer within Microsoft, and ensure that every engagement drives measurable value. You shape how our customers adopt and consume Microsoft cloud solutions at scale and create a foundation for long-term partnership and growth.

At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiation and planning of consulting projects by securing delivery resources, organizing work across multiple workstreams, and developing detailed project management plans aligned to customer objectives and schedules.
• Manage delivery execution across the full lifecycle, ensuring predictable progress against scope, schedule, budget, and quality metrics while maintaining adherence to security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, and change control across engagements; drive mitigation and recovery plans, including for high‑impact or escalated situations, and ensure tools and documentation remain current.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders and internal leaders; establish governance rhythms, communicate project health and financial performance, and influence decision making to achieve successful outcomes.
• Drive business growth and cloud consumption by identifying follow‑on opportunities, contributing to pursuit and deal shaping, and ensuring customers realize the full value of their investments through effective delivery and adoption.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 5+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 12+ years experience in project management OR equivalent experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• 6+ years consulting experience.
• Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification.
• Certification in relevant industry.

Consulting Project Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $124,500 - $214,600 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 $154,500 - $231,700 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.