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If you want to join a highly collaborative team of professionals – trying to empower excellence and execute with speed and agility, while seeking to challenge yourself, learn, grow your career, and drive strategic business outcomes – then we want you!

As a Business Program Manager (BPM) on the Office of the Chief People Officer (OCPO) Team, you'll work with a team of incredibly passionate leaders who enable our Chief People Officer to do transformational work across the company. We are looking for a BPM to support operations and program management across OCPO and the organization for high priority special projects that arise. The role will also support infrastructure for the Human Resources (HR) Rhythm of Business (RoB), HR leadership communities, and more! The candidate will be responsible for ensuring operational excellence, driving strategic initiatives, and working cross-functionally to accelerate the business.

In addition to day-to-day program management work, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow through project work and partnerships with other teams. In this role, you’ll be empowered to anticipate needs, orchestrate complex challenges, and enable clarity and connection—helping fuel a culture of innovation and excellence. This role will report to the Chief of Staff, OCPO and partner closely across the whole OCPO team.

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

Business Operations

+ Drives the architecting, developing, and executing the rhythm of business (RoB). Works with OCPO team to drive outcomes. Provides direction for identifying and determining objectives to execute which are in alignment with the goals of the organization.

+ Streamline and simplify operations across OCPO team domains, including RoB, business reviews, and comms/change management, implementing best practices, automation and continuous improvement strategies.

+ Provide support for the rhythm of business, planning cycles, agendas, facilitation, and priority setting.

+ Sets best practices for strategy leveraging consolidated information, advocating for business cases, and presents cases to leader and business partners.

+ Recommend, develop, and implement efficiencies by introducing tools, templates, and frameworks that improve effectiveness.

+ Build and evolve tools, resources, databases, and processes to efficiently achieve outcomes, including AI tools and agentic scenarios.

Project &** **Program Management

+ Drive strategic operational projects and initiatives that contribute to the company’s success.

+ Contributing to or leading a portfolio of projects, including the project plan, timelines, milestones, financial management, performance metrics, and/or resource needs for complex programs.

+ Demonstrating an understanding of mapping or how systems work and impact one another.

+ Collecting and evaluating success criteria and performance metrics.

+ Utilizing direction and strategy from leadership regarding business areas of expertise to help create and execute plans that shift current priorities to new organizational initiatives and objectives and influencing others to change behavior accordingly.

+ Ability to manage multiple, competing projects/priorities under tight deadlines, quickly prioritizing for impact and delivering results.

+ Attention to detail with problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, drawing from a variety of perspectives and exercising judgement.

Other 

+ Embody our  culture  and  values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Operations, Finance) AND 4+ years’ work experience in program management, process management, process improvement, financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related rolesOR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years of Program Management experience

Additional** **or Preferred Qualifications

+ Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Operations, Finance) AND 5+ years’ work experience in program management, process management, process improvement, financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related rolesOR equivalent experience

Business Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $123,500 - $206,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 5, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .