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Community Affairs Manager

Microsoft· Business Program Management
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Hybrid (Vienna, Austria), Hybrid (Warsaw, Poland)€70k - €136.6kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team seeks a Community Affairs Manager for Vienna, Austria and Warsaw, Poland to manage relationships with local stakeholders, develop and execute community engagement and investment strategies, and deliver social impact programs in hosting communities for datacenters.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact between Microsoft datacenters and local communities in Vienna and Warsaw, building trusted relationships with residents, NGOs, businesses, municipal authorities, and other key stakeholders.
  • Develop and execute location-specific community engagement and investment strategies aligned with Microsoft’s mission, CO+I priorities, and social and environmental commitments.
  • Gather community feedback and data to identify local needs, opportunities, sentiment, and emerging risks, translating insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Proactively manage community concerns, social risks, and reputation issues, supporting transparent communications, complaint management, local narratives, and impact storytelling.
  • Lead the delivery of community programs, ensuring alignment with local needs, agreed timelines, and measurable social impact.
  • Represent the voice of the community internally, partnering with CO+I, CELA, Communications, permitting, engineering, and construction teams to inform datacenter planning, construction, and operations.
  • Track and report program progress, impact, risks, blockers, and outcomes to Community Affairs leadership and regional/global stakeholders; travel approximately 30% within Austria and to Poland.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in community and local government affairs, preferably with a focus on large infrastructure and construction projects.
  • Experience presenting/meeting and building trust with diverse stakeholders including government officials, community leaders, non-profits, environmental groups, STEM education partners and students in various environments (rural, suburban, urban).
  • Experience managing contractors, agencies, and/or other third parties.
  • Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Professional fluency in German and English is required; proficiency in Polish would be an advantage.

Skills

Required:Community engagementStakeholder managementCommunicationMultilingual communication
Nice to have:Project and program management

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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