Senior Director, Strategic Energy Projects

Come be part of the energy transition as a leader on Microsoft’s Energy Team! Our focus is finding the energy needed to meet our expanding data center portfolio and AI leadership globally with unique energy generation projects and structuring creative options to deploy energy and data center capacity more efficiently. 

We are looking for a Senior Director, Strategic Energy Projects, to partner with our commercial energy teams andour peer teams throughout Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) Team to help structure creative data center project and energy opportunities that will execute quickly and become replicable with strategic partners. This position will be responsible for identifying new opportunities, coordinating due diligence and site negotiations and vetting creative structures to help accelerate the deployment of our data center infrastructure more quickly and in new ways.

This is e a unique opportunity to join a high-impact team, gain a wide range of exposure to global energy markets and new structures, develop innovative commercial structures and unlock new sources of energy for our growing portfolio. We enjoy an inclusive environment with a focus on agility, growth, and quality products. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• This role is located in - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ. 
• Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.
• This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 50%. 

Responsibilities

Strategic Project Sourcing and Vetting

• Determine viability and scalability of emerging technologies to support Microsoft’s data center portfolio expansion with near term energy opportunities. Partners closely with the multiple commercial teams to determine optimal strategies for the most complex and/or undefined project structures. 

• Partners with internal energy teams to develop multi-year sourcing strategies for multiple technologies of varying maturity levels that are optimized to ensure reasonable cost and sufficient continuity of supply while meeting performance metrics.  

• Leads a team working to ensure that our efforts are resilient to disruptions and that mitigation plans are in place that can address issues with seasonality, financial health, performance, and/or major unavoidable events (e.g., climate events, COVID-19). Provides guidance to team members on viability and risk management strategies across product categories and best practices, with a specific focus on risks around First-of-a-kind (FOAK) technologies 

• Leads a team to develop recommendations for investments in new technologies and/ or provide input on contract structures. Provides guidance to team members to influence the adoption of technologies across multiple categories based on needs of Microsoft products.

 Project Management  and Leadership

• Leads and defines comprehensive, actionable strategies for optimizing the commercial transaction in close coordination with multiple internal stakeholders, and leads the vetting and analyzing new large-scale energy opportunities with a focus on cross-functionally, ensuring that that price, capacity, and strategic business needs are met, risks are identified and mitigated, and long-term cost reduction opportunities are realized. Where appropriate, ensures compliance with Microsoft's requirements for cross-functional engagements with suppliers. Makes and delivers to budget commitments. 

• Serves as Microsoft's central point of contact for strategic energy opportunities and analysis across various spaces, but especially in the analysis of onsite generation opportunities:  Defines and executes on processes to enable and develop new suppliers, conducts business review discussions, and suggests and manages suppliers against market-relevant key performance indicators (KPIs) for evaluating financial health, performance, and compliance with Mic