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People Operations & Readiness Lead

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Multiple Locations

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106400.00 - 203600.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

With more than 45,000 employees and partners worldwide, the Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) organization is on a mission to empower customers to accelerate business value through differentiated customer experiences that leverage Microsoft's products and services, ignited by our people and culture. We drive cross-company alignment and execution, ensuring that we consistently exceed customers' expectations in every interaction—whether in-product, digital, or human-centered. CE&S is responsible for all services across the company, including consulting, customer success, and support across Microsoft's portfolio of solutions and products. Join CE&S and help us accelerate AI transformation for our customers and the world. The Global Customer Success (GCS) organization, within CE&S, leads the effort to enable customer success on the Microsoft Cloud by harnessing leading AI-powered capabilities and human expertise to deliver innovative solutions that accelerate business value, drive operational excellence, and nurture long-term loyalty. This role will sit within the Executive Office Team (CoS). The GCS People Operations & Readiness Lead will own tactical implementation functions, change management collaboration, onboard new programs, and readiness execution end-to-end, and partners closely with various teams to ensure that business priorities are driven and achieved through proper alignment of compensation, metrics, taxonomy and territory management. The role spans various pillars of workloads and works cross-functionally to achieve key goals and tasks for the organization.

Job Responsibility:

  • End-to-end operational ownership of core people workstreams such as comp, taxonomy, territories, etc and programs
  • Coordinates tactical implementation of new program changes via vendor(s)
  • Works with Change Management Team to land change across key segments of the business
  • Coordinates efforts across both Core (corp) and Field (regional) to drive consistency, including alignment to Blueprint on Employee Data management, Taxonomy and compensation
  • Partner with the field GCS Change Management & Landing team to ensure cross-org alignment and consistent approach, grounded in Prosci principles
  • Operationalize Role Taxonomy, Territory, and EDM Execution
  • Oversee onboarding, transfers, taxonomy audits, cost center alignment with Finance, and system validations to maintain data accuracy and minimize compensation or quota risk across planning cycles
  • Drive weekly governance, stakeholder Q&A, and collaboration across HR, Finance, WWIC, and business units to operationalize new programs, resolve data exceptions, and support ongoing planning and special projects
  • Working within the governance structure, ensure alignment between compensation plans, EDM and role success guidance for core, customer-facing GCS delivery roles

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (1-2 years out), Management Consulting, or Finance
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience OR equivalent experience
  • 5-8+ years in sales operations, program management, change management, sales strategy, customer success strategy, compensation, or adjacent roles
  • Demonstrated experience designing and landing change motions at scale, with a strong bias to execution and measurable outcomes
  • Working knowledge of incentive/compensation concepts
  • Solid analytical toolkit
  • Understanding of organizational design, taxonomy and territory assignment
  • Familiarity with Prosci or related change management methodologies
  • Experience partnering directly with incentive compensation plan design teams and/or running compensation-related workstreams
  • Experience building role success guides, enablement frameworks, and operating rhythms that stick beyond launch
  • Familiarity with customer success motions tied to adoption, usage, renewal health, and value realization
  • Solid understanding of Employee Central, Sales Performance Management (SPM) and other Microsoft taxonomy related tool sets

Nice to have:

  • Change Management
  • Budgeting
  • Analytics
  • Business

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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