Director, AI Infrastructure Strategy & Operations - AI Experiences
Microsoft · microsoft.com
Mountain ViewDirector6+ yrs
The job in short
AI infrastructure strategy and operations leadership.
PythonSQLPower BIExcelData scienceProduct management
Details
- Found
- 14 d ago · posted 2026-10-02
- Location as listed
- Mountain View, CA,US, US
- Role
- Executive / Director
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Working across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Infrastructure teams, you will develop forecasting models, establish resource-allocation frameworks, drive infrastructure governance, and ensure capacity investments are aligned to business priorities and product outcomes. Lead forecasting and planning for GPU capacity and other AI infrastructure resources across AIX. Develop demand models that incorporate product roadmaps, user growth, model transitions, workload characteristics, and migration plans. Create and maintain frameworks for evaluating, prioritizing, and allocating constrained infrastructure resources across products and business priorities. Drive governance processes for infrastructure requests, allocation decisions, escalations, and executive reviews. Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Finance teams to connect infrastructure investments to business outcomes, including engagement, quality, revenue, efficiency, and customer experience. Build quantitative models, scenario analyses, and business cases to support investment and resource-allocation decisions. Define and improve the telemetry, reporting, and dashboards required to understand infrastructure utilization, capacity, throttling, costs, and business impact. Lead cross-organizational initiatives involving infrastructure migrations, workload transitions, capacity reallocations, and cost-optimization efforts. Identify capacity risks early and develop mitigation strategies that preserve business objectives while improving efficiency. Translate complex technical and operational information into clear recommendations and executive-ready communications. Master's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, or program management, OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, program management OR equivalent experience. Experience operating in fast-paced, highly ambiguous environments and creating structure where processes do not yet exist. Master's Degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of experience in strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, or program management 6+ years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance. 6+ years of experience with AI infrastructure, cloud capacity planning, model serving, inference, training, or distributed systems. Experience building business cases and ROI models for technology investments. Experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Finance organizations. Experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, Kusto, Excel, or other analytical tools. Experience operating in fast-paced, highly ambiguous environments and creating structure where processes do not yet exist.
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