Senior Region Strategy & Expansion Program Manager

The Region Expansion team within Microsofts Cloud Operations Innovation (COI) organization is responsible for enabling Azures longterm global and regional infrastructure growth. The Senior Program Manager Global Expansion role is a senior individual contributor position focused on leading endtoend workstreams within the Global Prepositioning Program. This role is critical to shifting Microsofts cloud expansion to a governed aheadofdemand operating model that prepares land power permitting network and schedule readiness in advance of demand.

As a Senior Program Manager you will own and drive one or more complex prepositioning workstreams operating with significant autonomy while partnering closely with acquisition teams engineering finance planning and regional program leadership. You will translate longrange global expansion strategies into executable plans integrate prepositioning milestones into regional Plans of Record (PORs) and schedules surface risks and tradeoffs and ensure leadership has clear visibility and decisionready insights. This role requires comfort with ambiguity strong systems thinking and the ability to generate clarity across a highly matrixed global environment.

Strategic problem solving

• Lead strategic initiatives that answer the question What option or decision should we take Take each one from problem framing through analysis recommendation leadership decision and regional implementation.
• Develop and run decision frameworks that help Microsoft make faster consistent portfolio choices. For example assessing land and expansion options with clear Yes / No / Conditional Yes recommendations.
• Build business cases and position papers on expansion trade-offs such as when to invest ahead of demand how to maintain long-range options and how to balance schedule risk against carrying cost.
• Turn strategy changes into programs that reach across the portfolio. Coordinate Region Design Networking and partner teams and identify the highest-value expansion options each change opens up.

Long-term expansion strategy

• Help set the standards and methods for geography and subregion expansion strategies and the long-range plans of record that link Microsofts expansion direction to near-term decisions.
• Work with regional expansion leaders so strategies are consistent comparable and feed into capacity planning.
• Bring market demand supply and policy insight into new-region assessments and recommendations.

Cross-functional leadership and influence

• Build alignment across real estate region design networking engineering finance energy legal and capacity planning partners. Do it through influence not authority.
• Present clear data-backed recommendations to senior leaders and executive forums. Spell out the trade-offs what must be true and the concessions each option requires.
• Bring problems to the surface early especially where work is drifting from the strategy and set out options before they become constraints.

Data tools and AI

• Work with partners to make expansion data authoritative connected and ready for AI.
• Use the teams planning systems as the record for your initiatives. Look for ways AI can speed up analysis and decisions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree AND 4 years of experience in engineering product or technical program management data analysis or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree AND 8 years experience engineering product/technical program management data analysis or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1 year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g. sample documentation product demos).
• 3 years managing cross-functional or cross-team programs in data center cloud infrastructure real estate energy telecom or capital-intensive industries.
• A track record of structuring ambiguous strategic problems and driving them to a decision with senior leaders.
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills including scenario analysis business case development and trade-off evaluation.
• Experience with site selection land and power acquisition leasing strategy network or latency design or capacity planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication including executive narratives and decision papers.
• Comfort working across time zones with a globally distributed team and partners.

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Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

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

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