Director, Program Management - Microsoft GTM

Centific

About The Position

About Centific Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets. About Job Director of Program Management – Microsoft GTM Role Overview We are seeking a strategic and execution-driven Director of Technical Program Management to lead and scale Centific’s Microsoft go-to-market initiatives across Security (Purview) and Healthcare (HLS). This role serves as the central technical and program bridge between Centific’s Sales, Product, and Engineering teams and Microsoft’s client product, GTM, and account teams. The TPM will ensure alignment across strategy, solution design, delivery readiness, and go-to-market execution, enabling scalable growth within Microsoft’s ecosystem. This is not a sales role, but a high-impact technical leadership position responsible for translating alliance strategy into structured, executable programs that drive measurable outcomes.

Requirements

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

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.