• Key projects: This role will contribute towards supporting the planning and prioritization of work streams, and understanding and working within Microsoft's business space, particularly in marketing, sales, and compliance streams.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of the following percentages,
20-25%: Engaging with stakeholders and attending meetings.
10-15%: Team engagements or team discussions.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
• What makes this role interesting? - This role offers the flexibility of fully remote work and provides valuable exposure to Microsoft's marketing, sales, and compliance streams. It involves significant stakeholder engagement, enhancing communication and project management skills. The focus is on business operations rather than technical development, making it ideal for candidates interested in business strategy.
Candidate Requirements
• Years of Experience Required: 5-7 overall years of experience in the field.
• Degrees or certifications required: No degree is required to be eligible for this role.
• Disqualifiers: Candidates with too much technical or developer experience will not be eligible for the role, as the role focuses more on business operations and understanding the business space rather than technical development.
• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would contain resumes demonstration Program management experience, strong skills in handling stakeholders and clear communication, and knowledge of Microsoft's business space, particularly in marketing, sales, and compliance streams.
***Candidates with previous Microsoft experience are highly preferred ***
• Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on flexibility to adapt to changes and continue delivering with the right quality of work and meeting deadlines.

Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience
1. Minimum 5+ years experience with Portfolio management
2. Minimum 5+ years experience with Data analysis
3. Minimum 5+ years experience with Exec presentation preparation

Hard Skills Assessments:
• Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP
• Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include 2 rounds, scheduled for 30-45 minutes each.
• Required Candidate Preparation: Candidates should have general preparedness prior to the assessment.

Summery:
Below are the specific role expectations. Please focus on the below for sourcing.

1. Experience with sales and marketing organizations, especially with Channel, compliance and co-selling business at Microsoft.
2. Experience working with engineering teams driving execution based on requirements.
3. Experience capturing requirements from sales and marketing stakeholders and documenting requirements.
4. Experience building and leading executive presentations. Experience with data analytics, SQL, POWER BI and excel.
5. Familiarity in building GTM strategies and driving sales & marketing outcomes backed by data.
6. Experience running planning & portfolio management across large matrixed organizations.
7. Write business requirement documents & ensure stakeholder alignment.
8. Co-create OKRs with business teams that drive measurable improvements to digital partner experience.
9. Facilitate workshop(s) to collaboratively define future state Gen AI and Copilot based scenarios across the partner/seller journey.
10. Review current pain points of the partner & seller using existing data (e.g., partner CPE scores, support cases, survey data, etc).
11. Conduct internal interviews, integrate partner feedback, complete qualitative and quantitative analysis to build a POV on prioritization of AI scenarios.
12. Develop future state partner workflows based on priority scenarios anchored to partner journey and MCEM.
13. Integrate all partner scenarios into MAICPP planning workstreams as part of Commercial partner planning portfolio. (Microsoft will provide context here)
14. Work with technical leadership team to review high level technical architecture building blocks and systems design.
15. Technical depth in AI terminology and concepts and be able to design scalable, performant, and reliable systems keeping in mind Microsoft org accountabilities, boundaries, and limitations.
16. Build proof of concepts if necessary to drive scenario validation. These will not be deployed to production.