Regional Managing Director, Data Center Community

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As the Regional Managing Director, Data Center Community, you will be Microsoft's key external leader for a data center community, responsible for building trust, managing public engagement, and driving community investment. This role involves serving as the chief spokesperson, leading a regional team, and partnering with local operations and corporate affairs to ensure a coordinated and impactful presence.

Ansvarsområden

Lead Microsoft’s regional data center community strategy, including local stakeholder engagement, public narrative, community investment, and trust-building priorities.
Serve as the chief local spokesperson for the region, shaping Microsoft’s voice in community forums, public events, local media engagements, and high-stakes community conversations.
Manage and guide a regional team and budget, setting priorities, aligning execution, and ensuring the team operates as one integrated local function.
Partner closely with the local data center operations leader to align community engagement, communications, and operational priorities.
Coordinate with regional and national surge teams for new market entry, permitting, zoning, local controversy, media attention, or urgent community concerns.
Manage a locally focused budget to enable local partnerships and support community priorities in relation to the data center and its operations.
Own and be accountable for the integrated community engagement strategy, translating commitments into locally relevant plans.
Build and sustain trusted relationships with local elected officials, civic leaders, business organizations, education and workforce institutions, nonprofits, labor partners, community advocates, and other priority stakeholders.
Represent Microsoft as a trusted local leader in public forums, community meetings, advisory boards, chambers of commerce, business councils, nonprofit coalitions, and other high-impact venues.
Anticipate community risks and opportunities, maintain a clear stakeholder map, identify emerging sentiment, and escalate issues quickly with recommendations for action.
Ensure community engagement begins early, remains transparent, and continues through the full data center lifecycle.
Deliver clear, credible, plain-language messages about Microsoft’s investments, operations, community commitments and impact, and long-term presence.
Guide the local narrative across community engagement, media, social sentiment, public meetings, and stakeholder communications.
Prepare for and lead public-facing engagements such as town halls, hearings, office hours, tours, groundbreaking events, listening sessions, briefings, and community benefit discussions.
Develop talking points, FAQs, briefings, local proof points, media materials, rapid-response guidance, and storytelling.
Act as the trusted local voice during sensitive moments, helping Microsoft respond with transparency, empathy, speed, and operational accuracy.
Lead the regional team’s budget communications and community engagement operating rhythm.
Oversee local communications strategy, including proactive storytelling, local media engagement, social sentiment monitoring, stakeholder updates, community event messaging, and crisis-response readiness.
Guide community programming and philanthropic investments, ensuring local grants, sponsorships, employee engagement, AI skilling, workforce initiatives, nonprofit partnerships, and education programs align with community priorities and Microsoft commitments.
Connect communications, media, and community efforts so local programs generate credible proof points and community voices that strengthen trust and demonstrate tangible benefit.
Ensure the regional team maintains accurate data, metrics, outcomes, and qualitative feedback.
Serve as the central coordinator for community-facing work across various cross-functional internal Microsoft teams.
Leverage clear escalation paths for operational, reputational, policy, permitting, media, and community issues.
Support local government relations by aligning stakeholder engagement, meeting preparation, follow-up, and messaging.
Bring local insight into regional and national planning.
Help Microsoft move with local empowerment while operating within company guardrails for accuracy, legal review, brand alignment, and responsible engagement.

Krav

Master's Degree AND 6+ years work experience in corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropies, corporate affairs, government affairs, business and international development, or related area OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years work experience in CSR, philanthropies, corporate affairs, government affairs, business and international development, or related area OR equivalent experience.
4+ years of experience serving as a public spokesperson or external representative, including comfort with public speaking, media-adjacent environments, stakeholder briefings, and sensitive community conversations.
4+ years of experience leading high-visibility community engagement in complex environments involving elected officials, media, business leaders, nonprofits, education and workforce partners, and community advocates.
Ability to travel frequently within the assigned region and participate in evening or weekend community events as needed.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Must verify citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions, supported by a valid passport.

Önskade kvalifikationer

Master's Degree AND 8+ years work experience in corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropies, corporate affairs, government affairs, business and international development, or related area OR Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years work experience in CSR, philanthropies, corporate affairs, government affairs, business and international development, or related area OR equivalent experience.
4+ years experience managing a corporate social responsibility (CSR) or related program.
3+ years people or team management experience.
Experience working in or with data center, infrastructure, energy, construction, technology, or other highly visible capital investment environments.
Experience navigating local permitting, zoning, public meetings, community benefits discussions, coalition-building, or issue advocacy.
Knowledge of AI infrastructure, cloud technology, workforce development, digital skilling, sustainability, electricity, water, construction, or local economic development issues relevant to data center communities.
Experience designing community investment strategies, advisory boards, nonprofit partnerships, workforce pathways, AI skilling programs, grants, sponsorships, employee volunteer engagement, or local impact campaigns.
Experience working effectively across large, matrixed organizations with legal, policy, communications, operations, engineering, and executive stakeholders.
Proven ability to manage or guide cross-functional teams, consultants, or pods that include communications, community engagement, public affairs, program delivery, and issue-management responsibilities.
Experience managing budgets and resource allocation for community engagement programs.

Förmåner

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $132,200 - $258,000 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 $165,800 - $278,900 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
The typical base pay range for Corporate Social Responsibility M6 across the U.S. is USD $160,700 - $284,400 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 $207,700 - $311,500 per year.

#Community Engagement#Corporate Affairs#Public Relations#Stakeholder Management#Leadership#Data Centers#Community Investment#Crisis Management#Public Speaking#Media Relations

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