Senior Director, Campaigns & Advocacy

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead campaigns and advocacy in support of Microsoft’s infrastructure investments, with datacenters, energy, workforce development, and community investment as the primary mandate of this role.

As AI scales rapidly, so does the infrastructure required to support it. The public conversation around that infrastructure is growing in complexity, playing out across communities, statehouses, and federal policy environments at once. Regulatory approvals, rezoning and entitlement processes, legislative outcomes, and community trust are all interconnected, and they are shaped by how well we communicate, organize, and show up.

This role is global in scope, with the United States as the primary and most immediate focus, expanding over time to encompass markets around the world where Microsoft's infrastructure investments are growing. It means building campaigns that reach the right audiences through the right channels, generate visible support in our highest-investment communities, and equip partners, elected officials, and internal teams to engage effectively. It requires fluency across the full campaign toolkit: paid, earned, owned, digital, coalition, surrogate voices, and on-the-ground engagement, knowing how each contributes to advancing projects in the near term and building enduring community trust over time.

The right candidate is a seasoned political and corporate public affairs professional who knows how to design campaigns that win, lead  teams through complex and fast-moving environments, and guide cross-functional teams through high-stakes moments with clarity and strategic discipline.

What Success Looks Like

• Microsoft advances its investments in datacenters, energy, workforce development, and community programs, supported by coordinated public affairs campaigns that build visible support across the communities and government environments that matter most, in the US and globally.
• Partners, elected officials, and internal teams are well equipped with clear, compelling materials and engage with confidence. Microsoft’s voice is consistent and credible across every level and every market.
• Cross-functional teams move through high-stakes moments with clarity and coordination, guided by strong operational leadership and clear strategy.

Campaign Strategy and Prioritization

• Own the strategic framework for how campaign resources, attention, and investment are allocated across an expanding global portfolio. Assess the political, regulatory, and community landscape in each market and design campaigns that build and sustain durable support from the ground up.
• Translate priorities into campaign architecture: defining objectives by audience, sequencing activity around critical decision points, and selecting the channel mix and partner strategy that will have the greatest impact in each market.
• Maintain a dynamic view of the full portfolio, surfacing emerging opportunities and pressure points to leadership before they require reactive response.

Multi-Level Campaign Design and Integration

• Design the campaign framework that works across community, state, and federal environments simultaneously, ensuring that teams engaged at each level are operating from a coherent strategic approach rather than in isolation.
• Partner closely with Government Affairs to sequence public-facing campaign activity alongside direct policy and legislative engagement, so that community mobilization, coalition activation, and public communications land at the moments that matter most.
• Track regulatory, entitlement, and legislative calendars across priority markets, building activity that anticipates key decision points rather than reacting to them.

Public Engagement and Visible Support

• Own the strategy for reaching and moving the broader public, with particular focus on communities where Microsoft’s investments are most significant and where public sentiment most directly shapes outcomes.
• Design campaigns that build genuine, visible public understanding and support, deploying the right combination of paid media, earned coverage, owned content, digital engagement, coalition activation, and on-the-ground presence. The goal is not just awareness but demonstrated, organized support that decision-makers can see and feel.
• Develop audience strategies that speak distinctly to elected officials, regulators, community and civic leaders, local influencers, and the general public. Each requires a different message, messenger, and channel.
• Build and sustain a coalition of third-party validators and community partners that reflects genuine shared interest and amplif