Business Program Management INTERN (CO+I Exec)

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization operates global datacenter infrastructure delivering secure, compliant, cost-effective, and highly available cloud services. The Business Program Management Intern works in the Executive Office supporting the President as an operational integrator across CO+I, connecting leaders, teams, priorities, and operating mechanisms. The role provides horizontal support across Strategy & Planning, Delivery & Execution, and DC Operations, helping close functional gaps, improve handoffs, and connect decisions to execution.

The intern helps build and sustain the organization’s operating model through Rhythm of Business (ROB), governance, performance reporting, budgeting, workforce planning, executive communications, and business data management. The role applies systems thinking to anticipate downstream impacts, resolve friction across organizational boundaries, and design scalable mechanisms that improve end-to-end performance. It emphasizes accurate, complete, timely, and leadership-ready analyses, reports, communications, and decision materials.

Microsoft interns work on real-world projects with teams across the world and are empowered to build community, explore their passions, and pursue their goals while working on cutting-edge technology. Microsoft describes its mission as empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and its culture as grounded in growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or a related field.
• Must have at least one semester or term of school remaining after completing the internship.

Nice To Haves

• Studying business operations, program management, strategy, business finance, and workforce planning.
• Experience supporting executive leadership teams and leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong financial acumen and capabilities in business planning, workforce planning, and operational management.
• Experience building governance frameworks, operating models, reporting systems, and scalable business processes.
• Strong systems thinking, including the ability to anticipate downstream impacts and translate ambiguity into structure, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated commitment to accuracy, completeness, and leadership-ready work.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the effectiveness and continuity of organization-wide operating rhythms, governance, and cross-functional execution.
• Ensure the quality, accuracy, timeliness, and decision usefulness of executive reporting and communications.
• Drive closure of organizational gaps, dependencies, actions, escalations, and risks.
• Support alignment of budgets, workforce plans, and resources to strategic priorities.
• Help maintain reliable business and workforce data, standardized processes, and scalable operating mechanisms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern