Microsoft Chief Staff AI Partner Catalyst Team 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

638866149

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources or business-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years experience operating as a chief of staff, business manager or in an operational role.
• Experience with AI concepts and primitives.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 12+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 15+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years people management experience.

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 21, 2025.

Business Operations

• Drives the architecting, developing, and executing the rhythm of business. Drives strategy initiatives and helps facilitate for rhythm of business (ROB); uses strategy plans to inform structure and business insights to predict business outcomes. Works with leaders to drive outcomes. Collaborates with internal and/or external partners to develop plans and articulate potential benefits of partnerships and how they provide mutual value. Drives business review cadence. Informs direction for processes related to adherence to privacy and compliance.
• Leverages knowledge of the business to drive the leader's and business's goals. Leads and oversees processes to ensure alignment across groups. Sets best practices for long-term company strategy within existing businesses, and advocates and presents business cases to leadership. Shares priorities with leaders to negotiate appropriate level of team's involvement on initiatives so as to help team drive execution of top priorities.
• Manages the Sales Excellence team, ensuring Revenue, Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and Business reviews are on track.
• Manages actual Operating expenses vs forecasted in alignment with Finance, cascade and monitor quarterly accuracy across the teams.
• Executes business plans to ensure continuation of business operations at all times, including in adverse conditions, in accordance with corporate governance.. Strategizes and develops business continuity plans with Microsoft corporate Crisis Management and Business Continuity teams.

Maximizing/ Extending the Leader

• Leads in conjunction with stakeholders and the leadership team on multiple workstreams (e.g., workforce planning, culture, business health). Leverages key partnerships to drive the agenda for the leadership team and ensures follow up. Builds and cultivates relationships with leaders and executives. Acts as a proxy for the leader. Creates alignment within partnerships by providing an objective point of view, ensuring all voices are heard, synthesizing ideas, and creating an action plan.
• Leverages knowledge of the leader's goals and business approach to ensure business activities are aligned with the leader's objectives. Serves in the absence of the leader as needed to share their goals, objectives, and vision. Supports the leader and serves as a thought leader in multiple areas (e.g., setting key goals, priorities, and definitions; team culture and health; budget/finance; industry/specific business knowledge). Synthesizes information into insights that inform business decisions, leveraging experience to influence the leader, leadership team, and across the organization. Shares best practices across the Business Management community at Microsoft. Helps develop and lands organizational changes (e.g., employee data management, skilling plans, landing quota).

Organizational Health

• Drives team culture and health for the leader by getting a pulse on organizational health, as well as leading culture initiatives, while partnering with Human Resources to do so. Capitalizes on team strengths and identifies development areas, strategizing, planning, and executing trainings. In partnership with Human Resources, tracks Microsoft Poll responses and coordinates a response. Tracks the use of role-based compliance trainings and new trainings; drives the training completion rates.

Special Projects/Programs and Initiatives

• Drives cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and to manage complex business needs. Leads project/program management to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts that require hands-on coordination across multiple disciplines and business organizations.

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