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The Infrastructure Legal Affairs team has an immediate opening for a Senior Program Manager, Infrastructure Legal Affairs who will play a key role in helping our Azure Hardware and Systems Infrastructure legal team improve our legal engagement processes and scale our legal work and resources using Microsoft’s AI technology. This is a unique opportunity for a program manager to help support Microsoft’s rapidly expanding global cloud while using the latest AI innovations.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the end-to-end management of key process improvement initiatives related to Azure Hardware and Systems Infrastructure workflows, including tracking milestones, managing dependences, and ensuring timely delivery across teams
Collaborate with legal team members to create a rhythm of business, communications plan, and execution strategy for Azure Hardware and Systems Infrastructure program
Provide expertise to produce collateral to ensure stakeholder needs and business objectives are met
Support development and implementation of governance models for decision-making, risk escalation, and accountability
Ensure smooth rollout of process changes through documentation, training, and feedback loops
Support strategic initiatives that support the team’s objectives
Collaborate with legal team members within and across organizational boundaries, including engineering teams, business teams, finance, and other attorneys
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
OR equivalent experience
Experience navigating matrixed, cross-functional business structures
Program/project/change management in architecting processes to deliver proven legal support at scale and/or a background managing legal operations
Ability to manage, measure, understand and drive progress of complex programs across a diverse group of stakeholders and can think through and address a range of challenges from small to grand and drive toward specified outcomes under deadlines
Desire and ability to work as part of a diverse and inclusive team
Keen business sense, ability to think creatively and strategically, and a sense of humor
The ability to deliver impact through superior collaboration and be a process-oriented thinker with proven execution skills and results orientation
Capability to work efficiently, meet demanding deadlines in a fast-paced environment, prioritize workflow, and adjust to frequent fluctuations in workload and business imperatives
A passion for working in the technology sector and including a keen interest in applying technology, including AI, to improve legal work and efficiency
Proficiency in tools such as SharePoint, PowerBI, Excel, and other project tracking platforms
Nice to have:
Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
OR equivalent experience
Training in LEAN Six Sigma or Kaizen process improvement a plus