Sustainability LCA Technical Program Manager

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. 

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization is the engine that powers Microsoft’s cloud services and a critical enabler of the company’s sustainability commitments on a global scale. CO+I designs, builds, and operates one of the world’s largest and most advanced cloud infrastructures—supporting over one billion customers and 20 million businesses across more than 90 countries.  

With a global portfolio of 100+ datacenters and more than one million servers, CO+I operates on an unprecedented scale, where decisions around materials, design, and construction have meaningful environmental and business impacts. Sustainability is foundational to how CO+I plans and delivers cloud infrastructure—integrating performance, reliability, cost, and environmental responsibility into a single operating model. 

The Sustainability LCA Program Manager plays a key role in advancing this mission by driving embodied carbon reduction across Microsoft’s global datacenter portfolio. You would sit at the intersection of sustainability, engineering, procurement, and construction delivery—ensuring that life cycle assessment, carbon accounting, and low‑carbon material strategies are embedded into datacenter planning, design, and execution. 

By translating Microsoft’s sustainability commitments into scalable, data‑driven programs, you would help ensure that cloud growth aligns with long‑term sustainability goals while supporting CO+I’s mandate to deliver resilient, efficient, and world‑class cloud infrastructure.

This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX, Washington DC or Phoenix, AZ. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to (40) %. 

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. 

• Serve as a technical lead for embodied carbon accounting and life cycle assessments (LCAs) across Microsoft’s global data center portfolio, operating with autonomy while aligning to broader CO+I sustainability strategy and governance. 

• Own and advance embodied carbon accounting methodologies for data centers by defining, refining, and applying frameworks, data standards, and documentation practices to ensure consistency, auditability, and scalability. 

• Lead project‑ and program‑level LCAs for data center designs, materials, and equipment, translating results into clear, actionable guidance for engineering, procurement, and delivery teams. 

• Partner closely with the OFCI lead and cross‑functional stakeholders to identify, quantify, and prioritize embodied carbon reduction opportunities across Owner Furnished / Contractor Installed (OFCI) equipment and materials. 

• Evaluate and influence low‑carbon material and equipment pathways by critically reviewing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), supplier disclosures, energy attribution strategies, and emerging decarbonization technologies, and weighing technical, cost, and delivery trade‑offs. 

• Define goals, success criteria, and performance metrics for embodied carbon reduction initiatives, and track progress across multiple projects, regions, and workstreams. 

• Collaborate across engineering, procurement, construction, sustainability, and finance to integrate carbon‑informed decision‑making into design standards, material selection processes, and investment and approval workflows. 

• Translate portfolio‑level sustainability strategies into executable programs and projects, driving implementation from