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Responsibilities
Perform program landscape analysis and examine business trends, contributing to programs that impact Microsoft; identify opportunities to develop and improve programs, and drive program strategy definition and project plan creation.
Drive strategic alignment among cross-functional stakeholders to design crucial programs from initiation to delivery and use subject-matter expertise to define and track success criteria and performance metrics.
Operate with a startup mindset, adapting quickly to evolving priorities and ambiguity while applying situational fluency to sustain delivery, achieve outcomes, and exceed expectations.
Lead discovery/current-state assessment and translate findings into an actionable requirements set, prioritized backlog, and sequencing plan.
Contribute to portfolio planning and prioritization by surfacing tradeoffs, capacity constraints, and recommendations grounded in data.
Define success criteria and create relationships for implementing multiple feature areas across crucial cross-functional projects; coordinate, ensure alignment, and gain buy-in across the business.
Deliver on the multi-year roadmap for multiple feature groups, lead tracking of project schedules, oversee development of staging and implementation plans, and oversee governance programs.
Set best practices to define and execute a landing and communication plan, leading the rhythm of business during execution and gaining buy-in from stakeholders, partners, and customers.
Oversee a portfolio of projects: communicate program status and risk to stakeholders, hold teams accountable to the schedule, and drive collaboration so program processes run efficiently.
Provide deep expertise to conduct cost-benefit analyses and evaluate success metrics; optimize the use of data analytics to derive insights, identify risks and opportunities, and drive change-management processes across the organization.
Drive continuous improvements by validating use cases and writing test cases; provide the expertise needed for departments to collect performance metrics, and define, lead, and mentor others in direct customer engagements.
Own escalated issues and remove barriers or escalate as needed, and flag when existing processes block resolution. Manage field expectations on issue response, keeping Microsoft stakeholders informed on response/resolution status and influencing internally to drive resolution.
Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 15+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
OR equivalent experience.
Business Program Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 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 $165,600 - $303,600 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.
