Senior Business Program Manager- Regulatory Governance

At Microsoft our core mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As a Senior Business Program Manager, Regulatory Governance in our Privacy, Safety and Regulatory Affairs (PSRA) organization, you will play an integral part in driving this mission, navigating us into the future of innovation, and building trust with our customers and regulators. In Regulatory Governance, our goal is to help create systems and processes for effective compliance and maintaining trust across the four core trust domains - cybersecurity, digital safety, privacy, and responsible AI. 

This role will play a key part in collaborating with domain experts and product lawyers to connect legal guidance (such as regulations, internal standards, and contractual commitments) with the technical execution of those requirements by engineering teams. The person in this role will ensure that engineering activities are consistent with legal, regulatory, and organizational policies. This individual will make policies operational in a way that can be effectively carried out by engineering teams, ensuring compliance without sacrificing innovation or efficiency. The position demands a blend of strategic thinking, operational excellence, and cross-organizational collaboration for success. 

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. 

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with legal partners to identify overlaps between regulatory requirements within the four trust domains (privacy, cybersecurity, digital safety, responsible AI) and streamline compliance efforts to build for a trustworthy AI era. 

• Provide actionable technical requirements, mapping operational guidelines to specific technical needs across engineering products. 

• Break down technical requirements into service-level tasks, ensuring clear, consistent, and actionable documentation for compliance criteria.   

• Effectively navigate engineering organizations. 

• Embody our Culture  &  Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 6+ years work experience in policy, operations, or Trust & Safety within a technology environment.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in defining and tracking OKRs/KPIs to measure program success and knowledge of Microsoft’s engineering compliance systems and processes such as Service Tree, S360, and ADOs. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to identify trends, think big-picture, and connect compliance layers across multiple domains.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-team results through collaboration and partnership.
• Self-directing, adaptive, and entrepreneurial with an ability to build enthusiasm for organizational and cultural change and instruction. 
• Demonstrated intrinsic commitment to Microsoft's c