Senior Director, Organizational Strategy & Enablement, Frontier Company

Microsoft Frontier Co. is one of the industry's first organizations built entirely around customer outcomes. It brings together deep industry expertise, strategic partnerships and world-class engineering. Our teams work side by side with customers to co-design, deploy and continuously improve AI systems that deliver measurable, customer-defined results. Everything we do is anchored in end-to-end Frontier Transformation: helping customers turn AI into real, lasting business value. It is where Microsoft is building its next growth engine and where the industry's shift from delivering technology to delivering outcomes is being defined. If you join, you'll help build it from the ground up.

As the Senior Director, Organizational Strategy & Enablement for Frontier Company, you will report directly to the COO of Frontier Company. This is a unique opportunity to build at the intersection of organizational strategy, enablement, operating model design, talent and capability development, and enterprise transformation.

You will lead the organizational strategy and enablement capabilities that help Frontier translate its business ambition into organizational structure, clearly defined roles, and the capabilities our people need to succeed. Working across the organization, you will shape and evolve role architecture, workforce capabilities, skilling and development, and the mechanisms that turn strategy into sustained ways of working as Frontier grows and evolves. 

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.  

Candidates who live within 50 miles of Microsoft's Redmond campus will be required to work in the office 3 days per week.

Future Workforce Strategy

• Lead the strategy and evolution of Frontier’s organizational and role architecture, defining clear roles, capabilities, career journeys and expectations that support current business priorities and Frontier Company’s ambitions to scale.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders and partner to HR and Finance, connecting business priorities, organizational design, workforce capabilities, data and employee insights to shape decisions about organizational and workforce strategy.
• Pilot and iterate new organizational and workforce approaches, moving quickly from concept to execution and using data, feedback and business outcomes to learn, refine and scale what works.

Capability and Enablement

• Set and execute the Frontier Company-wide capability and skilling strategy. Establish measures of success and use business, sales, employee, industry and capability signals to continuously evolve Frontier’s capability and enablement strategy.
• Build differentiated experiences spanning onboarding, capability building, professional development and career advancement, leveraging Microsoft-wide capabilities to create an inspiring and compelling employee experience that makes Frontier a place where people are excited to join, grow and build their careers.
• Build and evolve professional communities that strengthen role identity, connection, knowledge sharing and development, while partnering with executive sponsors to establish priorities and driving implementation and adoption across the organization.

Organizational Effectiveness, Change and Execution

• Lead organizational effectiveness priorities spanning role clarity, structure, taxonomy, levels, role placement and other organizational design elements, translating insights into clear recommendations and action.
• Own major organizational and capability initiatives from strategy through execution and adoption, leading across organizational, functional and geographic boundaries to create alignment and momentum.
• Lead change and landing strategies that equip managers and employees to understand what is changing, why it matters and how new strategies, roles and ways of working translate into practice.
• Establish the governance, frameworks and cross-organizational mechanisms that solidify ownership and accountability, drive consistent adoption of role definitions, role architecture and parameters, and successfully land role and capability changes across the organization.

Lead and Grow a High-Performing Team

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team, setting clear objectives, outcomes and accountability while empowering team members to make decisions and operate effectively across boundaries.
• Align the team’s capabilities and resources to Frontier’s highest-impact priorities, balancing the need to architect and build new organizational systems with operational excellence and rigor.
• Build an inclusive, adaptable culture that operates effectively through ambiguity, moves with pace, experiments and learns quickly, and is comfortable adjusting course as new insights emerge.

Other 

• Embody our culture and values.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, or related field AND 6+ years of experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, business development, marketing, or a related field OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in Management Consulting, Sales, Human Resources, or Finance.
• 4+ years of people management experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 6+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, sales leadership, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience 
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field AND 8+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, sales leadership, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience with an emphasis on large scope projects partnering with senior leadership 
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and scaling organizational models, role architectures and governance frameworks that establish role clarity, accountability and effective ways of working.
• Experience designing, building and implementing a global workforce capability and skilling strategy or program.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation and organizational change within a large matrixed organization.

Sales Strategy Enablement M6 - 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.