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Microsoft

Director, AI Infrastructure Strategy & Operations - AI Experiences

$156K–$304K

Mountain View, CA +1 · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026

Location
Mountain View, CA
Redmond, WA
Experience
6+ years in relevant fields with a master's degree, or 8+ years with a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience; also requires 6+ years in each of the specified infrastructure, investment-modeling, cross-functional partnership, and analytical-tool areas.
Education
Master's or bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.

About the job

Leads cross-functional planning, allocation, governance, and investment decisions for GPU capacity and other infrastructure powering Microsoft AI Experiences.

What you'll do

  • Forecast AI infrastructure demand and develop models, scenarios, and business cases for investment and allocation decisions.
  • Establish resource-allocation frameworks and governance, and lead initiatives involving migrations, capacity reallocations, and cost optimization.
  • Partner across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Finance to connect infrastructure decisions to business outcomes and communicate recommendations to executives.

What they ask for

  • Master's degree in a related field and 6+ years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree in a related field and 8+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience with AI infrastructure, cloud capacity planning, model serving, inference, training, or distributed systems.
  • 6+ years of experience building business cases and ROI models for technology investments.
  • 6+ years of experience partnering with Product, Engineering, and Finance organizations; and 6+ years of experience with SQL, Python, Power BI, Kusto, Excel, or other analytical tools.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in a related field and 12+ years of strategy, business planning, finance, product management, operations, or program management experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.

Pay

USD $155,800 - $277,200 per year (base salary); USD $202,400 - $303,600 per year (base salary)

Tools

SQL, Python, Power BI, Kusto, Excel

AI focus

Plans and allocates GPU capacity and other infrastructure for AI experiences, including forecasting demand across products, model transitions, and workloads.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)