Senior Business Planner
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
If you want to play a pivotal role in modernizing how our field, partners, and customers experience and engage with Microsoft’s licensing, this is the job for you!
Microsoft’s Monetization and Business Planning organization directs our commercial product portfolio’s pricing, packaging, licensing, channel, and monetization strategies. Few teams exist that have such a direct impact on Microsoft and the entire industry.
As a Senior Business Planner focused on Licensing Strategy, you will be at the forefront of how Microsoft defines, enables, markets, and lands commercial licensing strategies. Especially important is how Microsoft’s customers, field, and partners consume our licensing policies. We are looking for someone to lead the vision, strategy, and implementation of how Microsoft’s licensing policies and terms are shared and communicated to audiences, including leading our generative AI initiatives to enhance audience experiences with Microsoft licensing.
The opportunities to make an impact in this role are bounded only by your ability to think big and drive strategy and execution!
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
In this role, some of the initiatives you’ll work on include:
Evolving our vision, strategy, and execution for how Microsoft’s licensing is organized, presented, and communicated to our customers, field, and partners.Identifying and leading initiatives to leverage generative AI to modernize and enhance audience experiences with Microsoft licensing.Developing and implementing strategies to better organize licensing content, making it more discoverable, searchable, and accessible through UX design. Engaging directly with senior executives and other stakeholders to get feedback and adjusting licensing designs.
Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
5+ years product management, product marketing, UX design or related experienceOR equivalent experienceExperience in creating, organizing, and managing the delivery of licensing or equally complex policy contentUnderstanding of software/technology industry licensing concepts, monetization, and approachesExperience leading and coordinating project teams to deliver on internal tools development, including articulating business requirements, use cases, scenarios, business processes, and workflowsEffective written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to develop tight, collaborative relationships in an efficient and iterative manner
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
8+ years product management, product marketing, UX design or related experience or related experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related fieldOR 6+ years product management, product marketing, UX design or related experience AND Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Juris Doctor (JD) or related field OR equivalent experienceExperience in content creation and content management strategies to train Large Language Models Understanding of Microsoft licensing and commercial agreements
Business Planning IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,200 - $194,800 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 $130,000 - $213,200 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 May 2, 2024.
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.
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