# Central Planning Cycle Scheduler - Part Time

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Mountain View
**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 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.

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- project and program planning tools
- written and verbal communication
- Program Management Office
- AI-assisted or automated tooling

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