Senior Program Manager, Strategic planning - Datacenter

About the role

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, responsible for innovating, planning, designing, building, and operating one of the largest datacenter fleets in the world. Within Lease Central Planning, this role focuses on enabling data-driven demand and supply planning decisions across a complex and fast-growing lease portfolio. The Senior Program Manager will combine business program management, analytical rigor, and stakeholder communication to transform demand signals, supply data, portfolio metrics, and business context into trusted insights and decision-ready recommendations.

The successful candidate thrives in ambiguity, brings structure to complex business questions, and communicates clearly with cross-functional stakeholders. You will partner across planning, finance, site acquisition, lease delivery, engineering, and regional teams to build scalable reporting mechanisms, identify risks and opportunities, and present insights that support timely business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain portfolio-level analytics, dashboards, scorecards, and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility to demand, supply, portfolio health, risks, opportunities, and key decision points.
• Analyze demand signals, supply optionality, capacity constraints, planning assumptions, market intelligence, and execution performance to identify trends, gaps, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
• Translate complex data and business context into clear insights, scenarios, narratives, and recommendations that enable stakeholders to understand what is happening and what decisions or actions are needed.
• Support recurring demand and supply planning rhythms by preparing standardized reporting, ad hoc analysis, briefing materials, and insight packages for leadership reviews, governance forums, and decision meetings.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define business questions, validate assumptions, align metrics, improve data quality, and increase confidence in planning inputs and outputs.
• Use business program management discipline to manage intake, priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, and follow-through across analytics and planning workstreams.
• Develop scalable and repeatable insight-generation mechanisms, including metric definitions, data quality checks, templates, and process improvements that improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Present insights, tradeoffs, and recommendations to business stakeholders and leadership audiences; facilitate alignment by documenting decisions, actions, owners, and implications.
• Continuously improve the quality, speed, and usability of planning analytics by identifying opportunities to automate reporting, streamline processes, and strengthen reporting governance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 3+ years experience using data and business analysis to support planning, operational, portfolio, or investment decisions.
• 3+ years experience managing programs or workstreams across multiple stakeholders, including prioritization, milestones, risks, dependencies, and follow-through.
• Experience in supporting demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, portfolio analytics, cloud infrastructure, datacenter development, real estate, lease planning, or other complex operational environments.
• Hands-on experience with analytics and reporting tools such as Excel and Power BI; SQL, Power Query, or other data analysis tools a plus.
• Experience building dashboards, scorecards, recurring reports, or analytical products that improve business visibility, planning quality, or decision speed.
• Ability to work effectively across matrixed teams, influence without direct authority, and drive alignment in ambiguous or fast-moving environments.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. A different range applies to specific work locations, including the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, where the base pay range is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.