Senior Business Program Manager

The Data, AI, Industry and Applications Business Development team is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Business Program Manager ready to drive one of Microsoft’s most valued partnerships. This partnership is with a leading artificial intelligence company and is highly important for achieving Microsoft’s goals. This role requires an individual that can work in a fast-paced environment, while driving high quality results. 

Microsoft is leading the AI platform shift and partnerships play an integral role in Microsoft’s leadership position. The company is partnering with many of the leading AI innovators and entrepreneurial organizations to develop new technologies and incorporate them into the Microsoft platform and provide to shared customers. This strategy represents a continuation of Microsoft’s commitment to bring the world’s most valuable innovations to market in partnership with similarly world-class organizations. This team leads these AI partnerships and is designating leaders to focus exclusively on relationships to ensure they continue to grow productively. 

The individual hired can be based in our San Francisco, CA or our Redmond, WA office. 

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission. 

Responsibilities

• Unite, inform, equip, and empower key parties across the business through the alignment of all partnerships and initiatives with the partner’s strategic objectives ensuring consistent execution.  
• Strategy and process development to drive increased coherence in partnership activities with the goal of more effective and unified outcomes.  
• Work with key stakeholders across Microsoft to centralize initiatives that drive and strengthen partner relationships, including but not limited to the development of workshops and GTM programs. 
• Communications management and orchestration serving as the main point of contact between BD partnership and departments. Development and management of an integrated rhythm of the business for cross organizational alignment. Including but not limited to newsletter and key communication programs, business alignment and review meetings, hot sheets and dashboards.  
• Operations management to streamline processes and manage operational tasks across the partnership team. 
• Change management, development and implementation of frameworks that delineate the essential steps, procedures, and best practices vital for driving updates and maintaining clarity through evolving environments. 
• Look beyond traditional partnership models to find opportunities for mutual growth and collaboration.  
• Participate in discussions and planning to shape the future of the partnership.  

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• Embody Microsoft’s culture and

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