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Program Management

Expert professional IC

Career Explorer · Program, Portfolio & Transformation Management · Program Management

Entry: Program ManagerIC ceiling: IC6Both

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

  1. Program Manager InternIC0Optional developmental level
  2. Associate Program ManagerIC1
  3. Program ManagerIC2
  4. Senior Program ManagerIC3
  5. Lead Program ManagerIC4
  6. Principal Program ManagerIC5
  7. Senior Principal Program ManagerIC6

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

This family has no management ladder.

Source: PMI; Microsoft Careers