Principal Region Expansion Strategy PM Lead, Americas

Overview Microsoft’s Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) organization is the team behind the cloud, enabling the infrastructure that powers Microsoft’s cloud and AI services. Within Integrated Planning and Execution (IPE), the Region Expansion function helps shape where and how that infrastructure grows, connecting long-term business ambitions and customer needs with infrastructure readiness and supply opportunities. We bring together expertise across engineering, finance, planning, and infrastructure acquisition to anticipate constraints, explore creative expansion options, and guide decisions across land, power, network, and datacenter capacity. Through collaborative leadership, data-driven analysis, and disciplined program management, we turn strategy into actionable regional roadmaps—preserving flexibility, reducing risk, and positioning Microsoft to deliver capacity where and when it matters. As the Principal Region Expansion Strategy PM Lead, Americas , you will have the opportunity to shape the future of Microsoft’s commercial cloud and AI infrastructure across the Americas while leading and developing the program managers who advance that strategy. Bringing together your experience in infrastructure, supply planning, and business strategy, you will guide a long-range portfolio that balances new-region opportunities with the expansion of existing regions and availability zones. This work calls for curiosity, creative problem solving, and the ability to turn complex market needs, demand and supply outlooks, infrastructure constraints, and investment choices into clear recommendations and timely decisions. Just as importantly, it calls for a genuine passion for people leadership: coaching with empathy, creating an inclusive environment, and helping each team member grow while building shared accountability for outcomes. You will represent the Americas portfolio in executive forums, act with urgency and sound judgment, and model a growth mindset through feedback, learning, and continuous improvement. You will also help evolve how we work, embracing AI-enabled tools and new program management approaches with responsible data handling and thoughtful validation. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact—building a capable, connected team and translating ambitious expansion strategies into plans that are ready for execution. Responsibilities Responsibilities: Set the Americas geographic portfolio strategy within global cloud and AI planning frameworks. Develop an integrated long-range capacity roadmap, compare new-region investments with existing-region and zone expansion, and recommend the sequence of opportunities based on customer impact, resilience, economics, feasibility, and time to market. Integrate regional demand and supply planning with market, customer, geopolitical, and infrastructure signals. Surface capacity variances, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation options early. Apply creative problem solving, scenarios, and sensitivity analysis to challenge assumptions, develop alternatives, preserve supply optionality, and make trade-offs explicit. Manage and develop the Americas program management team. Set clear expectations and priorities, delegate meaningful ownership, coach empathetically, provide actionable feedback, and create growth opportunities. Foster an inclusive culture where people can raise concerns and learn from setbacks, while holding the team accountable for commitments and outcomes. Align direct reports and cross-functional partners around integrated regional plans of record, decision milestones, and common measures of progress, reconciling competing priorities across strategy workstreams. Lead cross-functional business-case development with Finance and infrastructure partners. Bring together Azure, Energy, Land, Lease, Network, MCAPS, and CELA perspectives, including sourcing and acquisition options where relevant, while keeping technical assessments, procur…

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