Business Strategy IC6

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In short

Microsoft AI Experiences (AIX) is hiring a Business Strategy IC6 to lead the planning, allocation, and management of AI infrastructure, particularly GPU capacity. This role involves developing forecasting models, establishing resource allocation frameworks, and partnering across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Infrastructure teams to align investments with business priorities and AI product outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead forecasting and planning for GPU capacity and other AI infrastructure resources across AIX.
  • Develop demand models incorporating product roadmaps, user growth, model transitions, workload characteristics, and migration plans.
  • Create and maintain frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and allocating constrained infrastructure resources across products and business priorities.
  • Drive governance processes for infrastructure requests, allocation decisions, escalations, and executive reviews.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Finance teams to connect infrastructure investments to business outcomes.
  • Build quantitative models, scenario analyses, and business cases to support investment and resource-allocation decisions.
  • Define and improve telemetry, reporting, and dashboards for infrastructure utilization, capacity, throttling, costs, and business impact.
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives involving infrastructure migrations, workload transitions, capacity reallocations, and cost-optimization efforts.
  • Identify capacity risks early and develop mitigation strategies.
  • Translate complex technical and operational information into clear recommendations and executive-ready communications.

Requirements

  • Master's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, or program management; OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, program management; OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience with AI infrastructure, cloud capacity planning, model serving, inference, training, or distributed systems.
  • 6+ years of experience building business cases and ROI models for technology investments.
  • 6+ years of experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Finance organizations.
  • 6+ years of experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, Kusto, Excel, or other analytical tools.
  • Experience operating in fast-paced, highly ambiguous environments and creating structure where processes do not yet exist.

Desired Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, or program management
  • 6+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.
  • 6+ years of experience with AI infrastructure, cloud capacity planning, model serving, inference, training, or distributed systems.
  • Experience building business cases and ROI models for technology investments.
  • Experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Finance organizations.
  • Experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, Kusto, Excel, or other analytical tools.
  • Experience operating in fast-paced, highly ambiguous environments and creating structure where processes do not yet exist.

Benefits

  • The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $155,800 - $277,200 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 $202,400 - $303,600 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

Skills

SQLPythonPower BIKustoExcel
#AI#AIX#Copilot#Bing#Edge#Strategy#Business Development#Infrastructure#Capacity Planning#GPU#Forecasting#Modeling#Finance#Product Management#Engineering#Cloud
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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

4 days ago

Employment Type

Full Time

Work mode

Hybrid

Salary

US$155,800–277,200 · Negotiable

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Master, Bachelor

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