Business Program Management INTERN (CO+I Exec)
Microsoft · Washington
OverviewMicrosoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization powers one of the largest and most advanced global datacenter infrastructures in the world - delivering secure, compliant, cost-effective, and highly available cloud services that customers depend on. As a Business Program Manager Intern in the Executive Office supporting the President, you will play a critical role in serves as an operational integrator across CO+I, connecting leaders, teams, priorities, and operating mechanisms so the organization functions as one system. This role provides horizontal support across Strategy & Planning, Delivery & Execution, and DC Operations teams, closes functional gaps, improves handoffs, and keeps decisions connected to execution.
This role builds and sustains the organization’s operating model through Rhythm of Business (ROB), governance, performance reporting, budgeting, workforce planning, executive communications, and business data management. The Business Program Manager Intern applies systems thinking to anticipate downstream impacts, resolve friction across organizational boundaries, and design scalable mechanisms that improve end-to-end performance. A successful candidate in this role sets a high bar for first-pass quality and ensures analyses, reports, communications, and decision materials are accurate, complete, and leadership-ready before review.
At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.
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.
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Responsibilities
- Ensures the effectiveness and continuity of organization-wide operating rhythms, governance, and cross-functional execution.
- Ensures quality, accuracy, timeliness, and decision usefulness of executive reporting and communications.
- Drives closure of organizational gaps, dependencies, actions, escalations, and risks.
- Supports alignment of budgets, workforce plans, and resources to strategic priorities.
- Helps maintain reliable business and workforce data, standardized processes, and scalable operating mechanisms.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field.
- Must have at least one semester/term of school remaining following the completion of the internship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Studying business operations, program management, strategy, business finance and workforce planning.
- Supporting executive leadership teams and leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong financial acumen, business planning, workforce planning, and operational management capabilities.
- Experience building governance frameworks, operating models, reporting systems, and scalable business processes.
- Strong systems thinking, with 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.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.