Project Director

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Canberra, ACT, Australia · Consulting Project Management

Project Director at Microsoft, responsible for leading end-to-end delivery of complex customer programs, managing risks, resources, and stakeholder relationships. The role involves pre-sales activities, ensuring compliance, and driving program planning and performance for technology delivery, with a working knowledge of cloud technologies including Azure and AI-enabled solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, high-impact customer programs across the full lifecycle, from envisioning through planning, execution, and closure
  2. Drive successful delivery outcomes by securing resources, managing risks, resolving escalations, and ensuring accountability for scope, schedule, budget, and quality
  3. Partner with Sales to support deal setup, contract execution, compliance, and financial governance from approval through invoicing and closure
  4. Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior customer and internal stakeholders, including C-suite executives, serving as a strategic advisor and voice of the customer
  5. Guide program planning across large, multi-workstream initiatives, including resource allocation, dependency management, change control, and governance rhythms

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 7+ years of project or program management experience, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience leading complex technology delivery programs and cross-functional teams
  • Experience engaging senior customer stakeholders and managing executive-level communications
  • Experience delivering customer and business outcomes with accountability for quality, risk, and financial performance
  • Working knowledge of cloud technologies, including Azure and AI-enabled solutions.

Nice to have

  • Experience leading large-scale, complex transformational programs with direct, partner, and matrixed teams
  • Experience in financial management, forecasting, and portfolio-level budget ownership
  • Project or program management certifications (PMP, PgMP, or equivalent) and/or Agile certifications
  • Experience shaping pre-sales engagements, delivery approaches, and commercial proposals
  • Experience driving enterprise cloud and AI adoption, and managing programs with a focus on security, data privacy, or compliance.

What the JD emphasized

  • complex technology delivery programs
  • senior customer stakeholders
  • customer and business outcomes
  • enterprise cloud and AI adoption
  • security, data privacy, or compliance