Senior Business Planner

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Business Planner to drive monetization innovation for its commercial OneDrive and SharePoint portfolio. The role shapes pricing, packaging, business models, and offer strategies, partnering across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and finance to guide investment and deliver business outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-functional teams to land monetization strategy, pricing decisions, and packaging constructs for your product areas:

Collaborate with product engineering and product marketing on product vision, offer strategy and packaging constructs

Partner with finance to determine the revenue and customer lifetime value impact of business model decisions

Conduct market research to understand total addressable market, competitive dynamics, optimal customer segmentation, and customer willingness to pay

Engage with our Operations & Business Insights team to optimize pricing and launch products across hundreds of regions worldwide

Collaborate with other storage-related business planners across Microsoft to connect cross-product dependencies, including those relevant to AI experiences, and develop coherent customer-value propositions and monetization principles

Partner with the New Commerce and Commercial Strategy team to develop and land new business models with commerce engineering and sales organizations

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience

OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field AND 6+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience + OR equivalent experience

Effective communicator who can adapt your style and message across various stakeholders and levels, including marketing and engineering executives, customers, and partners

Strategic framing skills to create alignment between engineering, product marketing, and business owners

Efficient problem-solver who can see the big picture and possess deep analytical skills, including the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to make data-driven decisions

Consistently deliver results and demonstrate good judgment, personal accountability, and high integrity

Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a broad team, and drive successful outcomes with virtual teams

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

Bachelor's Degree

Master of Business Administration

Business Development

8+ Years' Experience

6+ Years' Experience

Communication

Communication Adaptability

Strategic Framing

Alignment Building

Problem-Solving

Big-Picture Thinking

Analytical Thinking

Data Synthesis

Data-Driven Decision-Making

Results Orientation

Judgment

Personal Accountability

Integrity

Independent Work

Teamwork

Virtual Team Collaboration

Outcome Delivery

Company

Software, cloud computing, consumer electronics, and enterprise systems.

Redmond, Washington, USA

https://www.microsoft.com/

Founded in 1975

10001+ employees

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 4+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience + OR equivalent experience

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience

OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field AND 6+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience + OR equivalent experience

Effective communicator who can adapt your style and message across various stakeholders and levels, including marketing and engineering executives, customers, and partners

Strategic framing skills to create alignment between engineering, product marketing, and business owners

Efficient problem-solver who can see the big picture and possess deep analytical skills, including the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to make data-driven decisions

Consistently deliver results and demonstrate good judgment, personal accountability, and high integrity

Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a broad team, and drive successful outcomes with virtual teams

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 4+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience + OR equivalent experience.

Required skills

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Preferred skills

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Experience

4+ years