Senior Business Program Manager

The Data Platform + Growth Executive Office is seeking a Senior Business Program Manager with a passion for driving scalable and impactful programs end to end. 

As a Senior Business Program Manager (Sr. BPM) at Microsoft, you will take ownership of leading and driving strategic initiatives and operational excellence across the DPG Exec Office team. You will lead cross-functional programs that align with business priorities, improve processes, and deliver measurable impact. This role requires effective collaboration, analytical thinking, and the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple levels of the organization. 

This is a high-impact role that supports leadership decision-making and contributes to Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

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.

This role is located in Redmond, WA and supports 50% on-site work and 50% work from home. Relocation assistance within the U.S. is available. 

Responsibilities

• Leading Strategic Initiatives and Change Management: Owning/ leading direction and strategy to create and execute plans that align with new organizational goals, influencing others to adapt their behavior accordingly. Identifies opportunities, designs and executes programs, and ensures successful adoption and outcomes.
• Business Program Evaluation and Improvement - Collects and evaluates success criteria and performance metrics using scorecards and dashboards to monitor complex programs and align activities with business objectives. Uses data analytics to derive insights and identify risks and opportunities for program optimization.. 

• Business Program Excellence and Execution - Synthesizes programs to stakeholders, partners, and customers, leveraging data and performance metrics to demonstrate value and show business impact, while adapting communication style and storytelling strategy, defining and executing on a landing and communication plan, leading the rhythm of business during plan execution, and working across teams to ensure all program requirements are met. 

• Business Program Management - Leads a portfolio of complex projects, including planning, timelines, milestones, financial management, performance metrics, and resource needs, while communicating status and risks to stakeholders, ensuring accountability, understanding system mapping, and collaborating with teams to develop and communicate rigorous processes. 

• Business Program Planning and Design 

• • Defines and tracks the success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] and Key Performance Indicators [KPIs], such as quality, adoption, usage, impact, effectiveness) for the program. 

• • Works with cross-functional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering) to design compliant complex programs from initiation to delivery, with minimal coaching. Produces collateral (e.g., proposals, strategy walking deck, internal and external pitch content) to incorporate stakeholder needs and ensure the business objectives are met. 

• • Identifies and scopes opportunities to develop