Responsibilities

• Lead growth strategy and portfolio planning: Translate Microsoft.com and business priorities into a multi-year strategy, annual and quarterly plans, an integrated portfolio roadmap, clear objectives, and measurable outcomes for priority customer journeys.
• Drive portfolio prioritization and investment decisions: Establish criteria and governance to evaluate opportunities, sequence initiatives, allocate capacity and resources, manage trade-offs.
• Own business operations and operating rhythms: Lead planning cycles, portfolio reviews, executive business reviews, scorecards, risk and dependency management, decision tracking, and follow-through across partner teams.
• Develop strategic business cases and recommendations: Integrate customer, behavioral, financial, operational, and market signals to assess opportunity size, expected impact, feasibility, dependencies, and investment requirements.
• Oversee experimentation and evidence-based validation: Establish a disciplined program for hypothesis development, intake, prioritization, test design, measurement, readouts, and responsible scaling, using experimentation as one tool to validate strategic portfolio choices.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team: Set clear goals, coach team members, build capabilities across strategy, operations, analytics, and experimentation, and foster strategic thinking, customer focus, collaboration, and accountability for outcomes.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 5+ years business strategy, business operations, portfolio or program management, digital growth, web strategy, experimentation, analytics, personalization, product strategy, management consulting, or related work experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• Master’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 3+ years business strategy, business operations, portfolio or program management, digital growth, web strategy, experimentation, analytics, personalization, product strategy, management consulting, or related work experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Economics, Public Relations, or related field AND 7+ years business strategy, business operations, portfolio or program management, digital growth, web strategy, experimentation, analytics, personalization, product strategy, management consulting, or related work experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management experience.
• Experience leading a team or function responsible for growth strategy, business operations, portfolio planning, experimentation, analytics, personalization, customer journey optimization, or performance strategy.
• Experience translating strategy into multi-year roadmaps, annual plans, investment priorities, governance, and operating practices for complex, cross-functional programs in a large organization.
• Experience leading executive business reviews and using customer, financial, operational, and performance data to develop recommendations and influence senior stakeholder decisions.
• Experience implementing or scaling growth, personalization, experimentation, or portfolio operations programs in high-traffic web, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud, e-commerce, or enterprise technology environments.