Overview

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) organization is the engine that powers Microsoft’s cloud services and a critical enabler of the company’s sustainability commitments on a global scale. CO+I designs, builds, and operates one of the world’s largest and most advanced cloud infrastructures—supporting over one billion customers and 20 million businesses across more than 90 countries.

With a global portfolio of 100+ datacenters and more than one million servers, CO+I operates on an unprecedented scale, where decisions around materials, design, and construction have meaningful environmental and business impacts. Sustainability is foundational to how CO+I plans and delivers cloud infrastructure—integrating performance, reliability, cost, and environmental responsibility into a single operating model.

The Sustainability LCA Program Manager plays a key role in advancing this mission by driving embodied carbon reduction across Microsoft’s global datacenter portfolio. You would sit at the intersection of sustainability, engineering, procurement, and construction delivery—ensuring that life cycle assessment, carbon accounting, and low‑carbon material strategies are embedded into datacenter planning, design, and execution.

By translating Microsoft’s sustainability commitments into scalable, data‑driven programs, you would help ensure that cloud growth aligns with long‑term sustainability goals while supporting CO+I’s mandate to deliver resilient, efficient, and world‑class cloud infrastructure.

• This role is located either in one or all hub locations
• Atlanta, GA, Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX, Washington DC or Phoenix, AZ. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to (40) %.

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead for embodied carbon accounting and life cycle assessments (LCAs) across Microsoft’s global data center portfolio, operating with autonomy while aligning to broader CO+I sustainability strategy and governance.

• Own and advance embodied carbon accounting methodologies for data centers by defining, refining, and applying frameworks, data standards, and documentation practices to ensure consistency, auditability, and scalability.

• Lead project‑ and program‑level LCAs for data center designs, materials, and equipment, translating results into clear, actionable guidance for engineering, procurement, and delivery teams.

• Partner closely with the OFCI lead and cross‑functional stakeholders to identify, quantify, and prioritize embodied carbon reduction opportunities across Owner Furnished / Contractor Installed (OFCI) equipment and materials.

• Evaluate and influence low‑carbon material and equipment pathways by critically reviewing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), supplier disclosures, energy attribution strategies, and emerging decarbonization technologies, and weighing technical, cost, and delivery trade‑offs.

• Define goals, success criteria, and performance metrics for embodied carbon reduction initiatives, and track progress across multiple projects, regions, and workstreams.

• Collaborate across engineering, procurement, construction, sustainability, and finance to integrate carbon‑informed decision‑making into design standards, material selection processes, and investment and approval workflows.

• Translate portfolio‑level sustainability strategies into executable programs and projects, driving implementation from early design through construction delivery and operational handoff.

• Establish and lead operating rhythms (dashboards, reviews, governance forums) to monitor performance, surface risks, and drive continuous improvement using data‑driven insights.

• Communicate complex technical analyses and recommendations to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including senior and executive audiences, to enable informed, timely decision‑making.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, environmental science, sustainability, materials science, architecture, construction management, or related technical field
• OR equivalent experience.
• AND 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, environmental science, sustainability, materials science, architecture, construction management, or related technical field OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience supporting or leading large‑scale infrastructure or data center programs across design, construction, and/or operations.
• Strong technical expertise in life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), including hands‑on evaluation of materials and equipment used in complex infrastructure systems.
• Deep working knowledge of embodied carbon accounting, including interpretation of LCA outputs, Global Warming Potential (GWP) metrics, system boundaries, and material‑level carbon comparisons (e.g., steel, concrete, mechanical and electrical equipment).
• Experience applying carbon accounting and sustainability governance frameworks to inform technical decision‑making, investment trade‑offs, program reporting, and risk management.
• Proven ability to partner with suppliers and external stakeholders to assess product‑level environmental data, validate assumptions, influence data quality, and drive embodied carbon reduction strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous, evolving technical spaces, helping define and standardize new processes, analytical tools, or technical approaches that scale across programs or portfolios.

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

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Technical Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.