Principal Strategic Planning Program Manager - Data Center Leasing

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind Microsoft's Cloud infrastructure and is responsible for innovating, planning, designing, building, and operating one of the largest datacenter fleets in the world. We support product teams by providing the secure and compliant, cost efficient and highly available global infrastructure that Microsoft's customers depend on. We are looking for a Principal Strategic Planning Program Manager - Data Center Leasing who can lead the development of strategies and plans that enable the optimal acquisition of our global lease infrastructure in a rapidly evolving business environment. In your role, you will shape and operationalize strategic planning capability for Lease Acquisition - translating demand and supply strategies into an integrated, multi-year global and regional roadmap. You will architect end-to-end planning mechanisms (portfolio models, scenario plans, decision frameworks, and executive-facing reports) that connect demand signals to supply optionality across regions and time horizons, enabling leaders to make timely, high-confidence investment decisions. This role requires a leader who thrives in ambiguity, sets direction through influence, and scales impact by building durable capabilities rather than one-off deliverables. You will align and drive decisions with senior stakeholders across Finance, Capacity Acquisition, and Capacity Planning; establish governance and decision frameworks; and ensure a focus on outcomes that are measurable and repeatable. You will combine deep planning and business acumen with strong analytical rigor to surface insights, clarify tradeoffs, and enable creative solutions that advance our complex, rapidly growing cloud infrastructure portfolio.