Senior Business Planner, Azure

Senior Business Planner, Azure

United States, Washington, Redmond

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200061204

Date posted

Oct 09, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Marketing

Discipline

Business Planning

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Are you interested in driving monetization and business planning for Microsoft Azure? Are you passionate about business strategies, business models, and data-driven decision making? Are you an analytical problem solver who can work across teams to get great things done and deliver quantifiable impact? If you said yes to these questions, we want to talk to you!

Microsoft is looking for a talented Senior Business Planner, Azure to lead monetization and business planning for the Azure Infrastructure portfolio. In this role, you will define, develop, and deliver a clear business strategy, optimized monetization, customer-centric packaging and pricing, and operationally sound business models to grow our Azure Infrastructure portfolio and drive broader adoption of Azure cloud.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond

Responsibilities

• Define business & monetization strategy, business model, pricing, packaging & licensing for Azure Infrastructure products
• Engage closely with engineering to inform/influence product strategy and drive alignment between product vision and monetization strategy.
• Drive strategic decision making with senior executive stakeholders across the company.
• Drives the strategic execution of business model changes, inclusive of price changes, product planning, and programmatic changes, following the documented launch processes.
• Partner with product marketing and sales teams on go-to-market strategies to land new offers in market, create pricing concession and promotions, adjust strategy based on sales feedback.
• Leads partnership with vendors for customer research and uses research to drive business decisions.

Qualifications

• Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 4+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience

• OR equivalent experience.

• Other Requirements

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under U.S. export control regulations, potentially under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency or other protected status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

• Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience

• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA