Central Planning Cycle Scheduler - Part Time

The Copilot Program Management Office (PMO) at Microsoft AI is seeking a part-time Central Planning Cycle Scheduler. This role involves owning the operational backbone of the Cycle system, which plans and executes in 12-week Cycles. The successful candidate will coordinate across product, engineering, design, finance, and partner organizations, influencing far more people than they direct.

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 as scope, priorities, resourcing, and dependencies shift.

• 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, shared squads, 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

• Required / Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field and 4+ years of experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles.

• Additional / Preferred Qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience owning schedules, calendars, and delivery cadence for large, cross-functional programs.
• Proficiency with project and program planning tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting a Program Management Office or a comparable central planning or delivery-excellence function.

Salary Information

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 – $188,400 per year. For specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is USD $125,000 – $206,400 per year.