Finance Director - AI Platform Strategy and Efficiency
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 27, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft'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. The Microsoft Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. This role is at the center of the Product Gross Margin Strategy to help build great cloud, AI services while influencing business models, levers to continuously drive gross margin growth and accelerate path to north star goal. As a crucial member of the team, you will also support long term bets and drive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud and AI ahead of competition, safeguarding shareholder interest. We are looking for a Finance Director - AI Platform and Efficiency to enable a consistent, portfolio-based view and strategic approach to enable Microsoft's goal to capture vast, long-lasting enterprise value by leading the AI platform wave. Role is at the center of the company's vision to turn most advanced AI models into a computing platform in a structured way and critical to maximize Microsoft's long-term AI growth and profitability. 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.
ResponsibilitiesOversee financial leadership and decision support to lead and drive long term efficiencies of the Microsoft AI Platform. Co-own and influence multi-year plan, focus, accountability, and incentives to accelerate gross margin expansion, unit cost reduction with clear state gate milestones.Own analytical frameworks, unit economic models, reporting insights and external benchmarks to define north star unit costs, for the AI platform. Accelerate platform scale, fungibility and utilization improvements to desired steady state. Influence leaders to develop engineering levers, execute while enabling feature, quality differentiation. Reduce platform unit costs and maximize return on invested capital by delivering leverage across the hardware, software, supply chain and infrastructure utilization. This includes driving benefit from new hardware generations in partnership with our vendors, software throughput improvements in partnership with OpenAI and other model providers. Effectively collaborate with leaders across multiple engineering orgs and Finance functions across the company with speed, depth, and rigor. Lead strategic financial and operational reviews, clearly communicate recommendations to executives.Manage and develop a talented, high performing team of individual contributors through application of our management philosophy of Model, Coach and Care.Embody our Culture and Values | |