Microsoft Senior Corporate Strategy & Development Manager 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

577656533

for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge world. The Microsoft Corporate Strategy Team is a small, specialized group that advises our CEO and executive leadership team on driving, assessing, and prioritizing the long-term strategic direction and growth for the company across its portfolio of existing and new offerings. The team has builta track recordof spotting trends early andthroughout the company. The group broadly focuses on three sets of activities:

• Thought leadership on the future state of the industry (e.g., economics of the cloud) and potential impact to Microsoft’s overall strategy

• Counsel to executives on multi-billion dollardecisions (inclusive of “needle moving” growth drivers, large strategic acquisitions and partnerships, portfolio optimization, etc.)

• Internal projects to ensure Microsoft’s processes and operations enable the company to grow and achieve our mission

As a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Strategy Team, you will drive formal quantitative and qualitative analytical decision support on high-priority, cross-company strategic issues. Example project areasideation, andcompetitive analysis and game theory.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years, marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster's Degree in Business Administrationor related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).
• 2+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance

or Preferred Qualifications

• , Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • ORMaster’s Degree in Business Administrationor related fieldAND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company,entrepreneurship).
• 6+yearsexperiencein Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

Corporate Strategy

• Develop and deliver divisional level analysis, options, execution plans, and recommendations based on analytical rigor, logic, and subject matter expertise
• Proactively spot strategic opportunities missed by others and plot insightful approaches to address them
• Investigates and provides an analysis of competitors, partners, business models, market sizing, and industry trends. Investigates and provides analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding, and public market environment and trends. Conducts market landscape analyses and reviews of companies of potential interest.
• Develops an understanding of Microsoft’s product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities. Investigates and provides an analysis of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding and public market environment and trends. Supports and reviews product roadmap, go-to-market, integration plans, and related Issues.

Research, Analysis, & Framing

• Conducts market-based research by identifying and gathering information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls); interprets information with guidance from tenured colleagues as needed, including researching existing business and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling) to validate proposed ideas and inform business decisions.
• Assists in refining initial framing established by project lead for strategic questions and applies structure to analysis.

Problem Solving & Insight

• Guide project team problem solving through development of frameworks/methodologies to create insightful analysis and recommendations; identify the right question to frame the team’s work
• Synthesizes findings into insights within a project, including implications that inform business decisions; leverages insights to support strategic recommendations for Microsoft, with guidance from project leads.

Communication

• Produce high-quality executive communications and arguments to facilitate discussions and decision making
• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Communicates and advocates insights to business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through multiple iterations of feedback and vetting, creating and executing outlines.
• Delivers project findings, recommendations, and implications to business partners to facilitate discussions and decision making.

Business Partner Relationships

• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to executives clearly and succinctly
• Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering). Builds working relationships with project stakeholders and business partners.
• Shares knowledge with business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) on a particular area of expertise, leveraging and broadening deep technical/product knowledge and market awareness for a domain to inform strategic business decisions.