Senior Business Planner

The Monetization and Business Planning (M+BP) team is responsible for monetization strategy, pricing, and packaging constructs for products representing over $100 billion of annual revenue. To deliver on this broad charter, we've built a center of excellence with an industry-leading reputation for strategic thought leadership. As a Senior Business Planner, you will deliver real impact by:

• Collaborating with engineering to turn new intellectual property and product roadmaps into revenue, growth, and profitability for Microsoft
• Creating business model frameworks that align with customer value
• Optimizing customer experience through new commerce innovation
• Creating incentive structures for our partner ecosystem to deliver value for end-customers
• Developing offer strategies to accelerate cross-cloud adoption and new user growth

We encourage a diverse and inclusive culture, and each of us strives to be respectful, collaborative, honest, accountable, and caring. You will have opportunities to develop your career by forging effective cross-functional relationships, taking on progressively broader product portfolio coverage, and establishing yourself as a trusted strategic advisor to senior engineering, marketing, and finance leaders. You can expect to have sponsorship for your work, support for your professional development, and encouragement to bring your authentic self to work.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Business Planner, you will:

• Lead cross-functional teams to land monetization strategy, pricing decisions, and packaging constructs for your product areas
• Conduct market research to understand total addressable market, competitor dynamics, optimal customer segmentation, and customer willingness to pay
• Partner with finance to determine the revenue and customer lifetime value impact of business model decisions
• Collaborate with product engineering and product marketing on product vision, offer strategy and packaging constructs
• Engage with our Operations & Business Insights team to optimize pricing and launch products across hundreds of regions worldwide
• Partner with the New Commerce and Commercial Strategy team to develop and land new business models with the commerce engineering and the sales organizations
• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture within your team and at Microsoft
• Other
  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience working in strategy and operations.
• 1+ year of experience in cloud computing
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field
  • OR 6+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Business Planning IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,700 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 17, 2025

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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