Finance Director – Search, Ads, and Copilot

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Microsoft’s Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated Finance Director – Search, Ads and Copilot, which includes Bing, News and Copilot businesses to help shape the future of our advertising business. 

We are looking for a Finance Director for our Search, Ads and Copilot business to build comprehensive and engaging content, services, and platforms for consumers to access the information they need anywhere on any device and for enterprises to enhance their employee and customer experiences. Our mission is to delight users everywhere with the best search experience and we are focused on creating competitive and differentiated search quality experiences This role will drive investment decisions across AI workloads such as chats and copilots, platform transformation, and search quality. It will also provide financial insights and guidance to engineering and finance leaders on key metrics such as gross margin, vertical profit and loss (P&Ls), and cost to serve, and help achieve long-term financial goals. 

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. 

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a talented, high performing team of individual contributors through application of our management philosophy of Model, Coach and Care.  

• Be trusted adviser for the engineering leaders on financial objectives, strategic investments, and efficiency opportunities. Land the gross margin goals and profit & loss (P&L) principles with engineering leaders and execute them throughout the year. 

• Reduce platform unit costs and maximize return on invested capital by delivering leverage across the hardware and infrastructure utilization. Use frameworks and storytelling techniques to communicate clear and simple messages to executives.  

• Own analytical frameworks, unit economic models, reporting insights and external benchmarks to define north star unit costs, for the platform. Accelerate platform scale, fungibility and utilization improvements to desired steady state. Influence  leaders to develop engineering levers, execute while enabling feature, quality differentiation. 

• Co-own and influence multi-year plan, focus, accountability, and incentives to accelerate gross margin 
• Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 10+ years experience i