Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Associate Director - Corporate Strategy & Development
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$106K/yr - $204K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The Corporate Strategy Team seeks an Associate Director to lead strategic projects, provide insights, and support decision-making for the company’s long-term growth and direction.
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Responsibilities
Leads key strategy projects and orchestrate workstreams across the Corporate Strategy team; owns overall efforts (i.e., full accountability of projects), including project plans, recommendations, impact, and syndication across groups
Coaches and mentors team members. Provides professional development guidance and opportunities to project team members
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. Provides guidance to business partners to inform decision-making
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
Defines initial framing of strategic questions and analyses for project team to conduct
Leads project team and/or independently conducts market-based research, including identifying and gathering information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls); interprets information with guidance from senior colleagues as needed, including researching existing business and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; structures and conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling) to validate proposed ideas and inform business decisions
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 develop recommendations and provide thought leadership (e.g., trend identification, implications of competitor moves) around potential future growth opportunities and strategic issues for Microsoft
Communicates and advocates insights to executive business leaders (e.g., GM+) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through multiple iterations of feedback and vetting, building and executing end-to-end storylines
Delivers project findings, recommendations, and implications to senior executives and business partners clearly and succinctly to facilitate senior discussions and decision making
Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering). Builds working relationships with executive stakeholders and business partners (e.g., GM+). 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
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, 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 OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, 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 OR equivalent experience
6+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance
1+ years experience leading project teams in consulting, corporate strategy, or related function
1+ years experience in tech-related roles (e.g., tech corporate strategy, tech consulting, software engineering) or on tech-focused projects in consulting, banking, strategy, or related fields
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$1MKey Investors
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Leadership Team
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