Project Director

Overview

About Microsoft

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture embraces a growth mindset, inspires excellence, and encourages teams to bring their best each day. We learn what matters most to our customers so we can make customer-first decisions and deliver innovations that create meaningful impact at scale. 

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, high-impact customer programs across the full lifecycle, from envisioning through planning, execution, and closure
• Drive successful delivery outcomes by securing resources, managing risks, resolving escalations, and ensuring accountability for scope, schedule, budget, and quality
• Partner with Sales to support deal setup, contract execution, compliance, and financial governance from approval through invoicing and closure
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior customer and internal stakeholders, including C-suite executives, serving as a strategic advisor and voice of the customer
• Guide program planning across large, multi-workstream initiatives, including resource allocation, dependency management, change control, and governance rhythms
• Oversee delivery performance, financial health, forecasting, and consumption acceleration to support customer value realization and business growth
• Lead pre-sales and proposal activities for complex engagements, shaping statements of work, delivery approaches, risk assessments, and value propositions
• Champion intellectual property reuse and creation, driving standardization of delivery artifacts and continuous improvement practices
• Ensure compliance with contractual, privacy, and confidentiality requirements, promoting best practices across teams and regions
• Drive closure activities, capture lessons learned, and contribute to readiness, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the organization
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values in all interactions

Qualifications

Minimum Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 7+ years of project or program management experience, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience leading complex technology delivery programs and cross-functional teams
• Experience engaging senior customer stakeholders and managing executive-level communications
• Experience delivering customer and business outcomes with accountability for quality, risk, and financial performance
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies, including Azure and AI-enabled solutions.

Preferred Experience

• Experience leading large-scale, complex transformational programs with direct, partner, and matrixed teams
• Experience in financial management, forecasting, and portfolio-level budget ownership
• Project or program management certifications (PMP, PgMP, or equivalent) and/or Agile certifications
• Experience shaping pre-sales engagements, delivery approaches, and commercial proposals
• Experience driving enterprise cloud and AI adoption, and managing programs with a focus on security, data privacy, or compliance.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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