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Business Program Management INTERN

Microsoft· Business Program Management
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Redmond, WA$4.7k/mo - $8.4k/mointernshipPosted 4d ago

About the role

Internship focused on learning and assisting with business program evaluation, execution, planning, and cross-functional collaboration to design and manage programs, with emphasis on cost-benefit analyses, stakeholder management, and operating rhythms.

Responsibilities

  • Learns to conduct cost-benefit analyses to examine performance to value drivers (e.g., profit and loss [P&L], return on investment [ROI]). Learns about monthly business review (MBR) and helps run rhythms regularly to identify what is working and what is not.
  • Demonstrates the skills needed to help ensure buy in and adoption of the new program or change by others in the organization.
  • Learns to evangelize the programs to stakeholders, partners, and customers to gain buy in.
  • Learns to adapt communication style and storytelling strategy according to audience and business needs.
  • Learns about project portfolios including the project plan, documentation of roles and responsibilities (e.g., RACI), timelines, milestones, financial management, performance metrics, and resource needs for programs. Communicates program status to relevant stakeholders and holds them accountable for following the established schedule, risk mitigation plans and processes, under close guidance from senior team members.
  • Learns to work with cross-functional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering, Marketing) to design programs from initiation to delivery. Learns to produce collateral (e.g., proposals, strategy walking deck, internal and external pitch content). Learns to identify root problems, define the program strategy, gather program requirements, establish and maintain alignment with stakeholders, identify resource needs, create the project plan and targets, and work across teams to align on the plan of record.

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field with at least one semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship.

Skills

Required:Cost-benefit analysisStakeholder managementProject management basicsCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Monthly Business Review (MBR)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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