# Central Planning Cycle Scheduler - Part Time

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Redmond
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: USD $97,600 – $188,400 per year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Copilot Program Management Office (PMO) at Microsoft AI is seeking a part-time Central Planning Cycle Scheduler. This role is responsible for owning the operational backbone of the Cycle system, which involves planning and executing 12-week Cycles broken into meetups, milestones, and sprints.

The successful candidate will build and maintain the master planning calendar, drive the cadence of reviews and checkpoints, safeguard the integrity of planning data, and communicate relentlessly to ensure dozens of workstreams and squads are informed.

Responsibilities:

- Own the planning calendar and Cycle cadence

- Build and maintain the master planning calendar for the 12-week Cycle

- Schedule and coordinate the recurring leadership cadence

- Run the planning timeline for the next Cycle in parallel with the current one

- Drive timelines, milestones, and release visibility

- Track milestones, sprint progress, and status across all workstreams

- Monitor progress against plan and surface delays, resource conflicts, and schedule slips early

- Facilitate the midpoint replan

- Safeguard planning data and system-of-record integrity

- Own the structure and readiness standards of the team's system of record

- Drive mission-sheet readiness each Cycle

- Manage change and keep the plan current

- Coordinate across teams and communicate the plan

- Serve as the central point of coordination for planning and execution across product, engineering, design, finance, and partner organizations

- Manage cross-workstream dependencies and resource contention

- Communicate clearly and proactively to a large audience

- Codify and improve how we plan

- Turn planning knowledge into repeatable, documented processes, templates, and governance

- Continuously improve the planning operation through process refinement, better tooling, and automation

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) and 4+ years of experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles

- Demonstrated experience owning schedules, calendars, and delivery cadence for large, cross-functional programs

- Proficiency with project and program planning tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms

## Skills

### Required
- financial management
- business planning
- operations management
- strategy
- project management

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Project
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- AI-assisted planning

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