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Director, Business Program Management

Microsoft· Business Program Management
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Tokyo, Japanfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Director of Business Programs responsible for building and running the business behind Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), shaping portfolio intake, prioritization, operating cadences, and translating engineering effort into measurable business outcomes across a global engineering organization.

Responsibilities

  • To stay competitive, you will perform program landscape analysis and examine business trends, while contributing to programs impacting Microsoft. You’ll also identify opportunities to develop and improve programs, surfacing upstream insights when delivery outcomes lag, and drive program strategy definition and project plan creation.
  • Drive strategic alignment across engineering teams, industry advisors, field teams, partners, and customers to design crucial programs from initiation to delivery. You’ll also use subject matter expertise to drive the definition and tracking of success criteria and performance metrics at the portfolio level rather than the individual activity level.
  • Set best practices to define and execute on a landing and communication plan, owning the operating cadences and business rhythms that drive clear outcomes during execution. You’ll also use your subject matter expertise to maintain one consistent playbook and quality standard across the portfolio, and to promote the program and gain buy-in from stakeholders, partners, and customers.
  • Oversee a portfolio of projects, keep programs data-current and progressing against leadership-agreed milestones, communicate status and risk to stakeholders and hold them accountable to the schedule. Drive collaboration between teams and maintain portfolio hygiene for scalable operations.
  • Provide deep expertise to conduct cost-benefit analyses and capture, analyze, and report defensible, quantifiable business results traceable to customer impact, instrument ROI frameworks, optimize data analytics to identify risks and opportunities, and ensure post-delivery sustainment and handover; drive capability uplift through AI and change management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 8+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement
  • Business-level proficiency in both Japanese and English

Skills

Required:Program managementCost-benefit analysis

Benefits

  • Competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around personal needs and those close to you
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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