Chief of Staff

The Engineering, Enablement, and Operations (EEO) organization enables Microsoft’s commercial business to better serve every person and organization’s transformation and economic success. We design, build, and manage the levers that accelerate commercial growth and shorten the cycle between customer signal and delivery.  

We are looking for an exceptional Chief of Staff to serve as a trusted advisor and force multiplier for Corporate Vice President, Data Strategy.  As Microsoft reimagines engineering enablement and operational excellence in the era of AI, this role drives strategy initiatives and the rhythm of business (ROB), creating clarity in ambiguous situations to drive prioritization and decision making for leaders across the organization. You will lead strategy execution in partnership with the leadership team, design and steward complex budgets, champion organizational health, and drive cross-team projects that meet a fast-changing business environment. This role has potential to evolve into a people leadership role as the function scales.

Business Operations — Drives the architecture and execution of the ROB and business review cadence aligned to the scope of the business. Leads strategy execution across stakeholders, ensures alignment to priorities and scorecard needs, and contributes to organizational design. Partners with Finance to design and steward complex budgets and long-term forecasts, advises on headcount and resource planning, and drives privacy, compliance, and corporate-governance accountability. As appropriate, executes business plans with program managers to ensure business continuity in all conditions. 

Maximizing / Extending the Team — Serves as a thought leader and trusted advisor to the Data Strategy Team, synthesizing insights to influence the leader, leadership team, and organization. Acts as a proxy for the leader, builds and cultivates senior relationships at scale, drives the leadership team’s agenda and follow-up, and optimizes use of the leader’s time. Lead executive-level communications — developing messaging on mission, strategy, and vision, and performing triage and ghostwriting on the leader’s behalf. 

Organizational Health — Ensures a healthy scorecard for the organization and champions culture and inclusion initiatives aligned to the defined People Strategy and One Microsoft D&I guidance. Partners with HR and the business management community to act on employee signals, accelerate culture progress, and drive training and compliance completion. 

Special Projects / Programs — Drives cross-team projects to manage complex business needs, leading program management for organization-wide strategic efforts that require hands-on coordination across multiple disciplines. Leads strategic innovation and experimentation. 

Communications and Customer & Partner Engagement — Drive internal and external communications — shaping the organizational narrative, executive messaging, and high-visibility moments (all-hands, leadership updates). Support the CVP, Data Strategy’s customer and partner touchpoints — briefing materials, engagement prep, and follow-through.  

Measurement and Impact – Captures and drives the measurement of impact across the team for stakeholder groups, creating a best-in-class value story both internally, and to share externally with customers as a customer zero impact story.