Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business application in the history of Microsoft, and we are a little more than two years old and just getting started! We are the collaborative hub for Teamwork in Office 365, part of the Experiences and Devices Division at Microsoft. If you love working in an environment that moves fast, where real time collaboration and problem solving via chat messages is the norm, where breathing data is part of your air supply, and running numbers is music to your ears, and if you like to add an ???????????? or GIF to express yourself once in a while, then being the business manager for Microsoft Teams Engineering organization is the perfect fit for you.

This role will report to the Director of Business Strategy for Teams. You will work closely with the CVP of Microsoft Teams Engineering, and across the leadership team to help us manage the business while continuing our rapid growth.  You will have an acute sense of organization and attention to details in all aspects of the data and information you manage.  You will drive our efforts to develop the fiscal year budgets across the team and then manage and communicate both the risks and the opportunities in those budgets throughout the year.  In this role you will also help us with plans to reduce the time to hire for open positions, ensuring that the recruiting process is a well-run machine, removing roadblocks, and improving the process. Actively seeking out opportunities to fine tune and redefine our processes will be core to everything you do, as well as demonstrating leadership and expertise in understanding the underlying data and information of our systems.  Additionally, as we grow you will be the primary liaison with our Real Estate and Investment Group at Microsoft and handle our overall space allocation and plans for the team.

As a Business Manager, we are looking for candidates with the following attributes: 
 

• Excellent collaboration skills to work closely with senior leadership on the team and across groups. 
• Proactive, forward thinking and able to effectively and quickly synthesize disparate information into clear recommendations, actions and decisions. 
• Organizational agility, with the ability to impact and influence leaders within the team. 
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to drive for results across a distributed set of stakeholders across multiple projects. 
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to exercise influence without direct ownership. 
• Ability to rapidly gain and build trust and confidence of internal and external stakeholders. 
• Comfortable working with technical engineering teams and ability to quickly grasp innovative ideas. 
• Passion for helping optimize performance within a product team. 

Responsibilities

• Streamline business processes across the business unit, optimizing for quality, efficiency and effective resource management. Includes development of business processes and tools to continuously improve organizational efficiency. 
• Create and manage on-going review cadence for key team metrics: budget vs forecast, business performance, product KPIs, and service metrics. Develop review structure, scorecards, and tools as needed in partnership with team LT. 
• Partner closely with stakeholders across the team, along with talent acquisition and recruiting, to set and manage people and non-people targets. 
• Drive and continuously improve the overall execution of our business strategy, find efficiencies and help identify any unnecessary spend. 
• Help support cross-org projects and initiatives.  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business management, finance, or product/program management with track record of increasing scope of roles and responsibilities.
• Relevant experience with engineering environments working on rhythm-of-business activities, business operations, business management, finance, or other similar environments. 
• Bachelor’s degree business, finance, engineering, operations or equivalent experience or an MBA and 3+ years of business management or finance experience. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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