Director, Program Management - Microsoft GTM

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that empowers clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. The Director of Program Management will lead and scale Centific’s Microsoft go-to-market initiatives across Security and Healthcare, ensuring alignment across strategy, solution design, delivery readiness, and execution.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end program execution across Microsoft Security (Purview) initiatives
• Align Centific’s AI data fundary with Microsoft’s data governance, compliance, and security product strategy
• Translate joint discussions into structured execution plans, pilots, and scalable deployment models
• Ensure technical and operational readiness for co-sell and customer rollout scenarios
• Drive cross-functional execution across Microsoft Healthcare research, engineering and go-to-market teams
• Partner with Microsoft product teams to align AI data services (medical annotation, clinical data acquisition, model evaluation) with healthcare AI priorities
• Coordinate internal product, engineering, and delivery teams to ensure regulatory-aligned execution in healthcare environments
• Act as the integration lead between Sales, Product, Engineering, and Microsoft GTM teams
• Convert strategic alliance discussions into executable programs with defined milestones and accountability
• Support joint planning sessions, QBRs, executive updates, and pipeline visibility
• Enable structured scaling of successful pilots into repeatable solutions
• Serve as the primary technical program owner across internal and Microsoft stakeholders
• Manage risks, dependencies, and cross-team alignment
• Drive structured communication and governance frameworks
• Ensure delivery excellence aligned with Microsoft enterprise standards
• Develop scalable alliance playbooks for Security and Healthcare verticals
• Establish performance tracking, dashboards, and reporting cadences
• Continuously optimize program governance to support alliance expansion

Requirements:

• 7+ years in Technical Program Management, Alliance Programs, or Enterprise Platform execution roles
• Demonstrated ability to operate at executive level while driving disciplined execution
• Exceptional stakeholder management across sales, engineering, product, and client teams
• Experience working with Microsoft enterprise programs strongly preferred