Group Engineering Manager - Calendar Scheduling

We are looking for aGroup Engineering Manager (GEM)to lead theCalendar Scheduling engineering org-a mission-critical pillar of Microsoft'sCalendarandCopilotexperiences. This role will lead the teams that build the end-to-end scheduling stack:helping people find the right time faster, navigate constraints,reduceback and forth,and confidentlygetmeetingsscheduled.

Scheduling is one of the hardest problems in productivity: it combineshuman preferences,organizational norms,time zones,recurrence,resource constraints, andrapidly changing context.Our ambition is to turn scheduling into ahigh-trust agentic workflow-moving users up the ladder fromassist propose delegate agency.You'll lead the transformation from "Copilot helps me schedule" to"a calendar that runs itself"-where Copilot can proactively manage conflicts, negotiate time on a user's behalf, and execute scheduling work end-to-end across clients, services, and partner surfaces, while meeting Microsoft-scale expectations for reliability and trust.

Ship at Microsoft Scale

• Drive execution across multiple scheduling workstreams with dependencies on shared platform teams and partner experiences.
• Make principled tradeoffs between capability, velocity, privacy/security, and operational reliability.
• Operate effectively in a fast-paced, large, cross-org environment-building alignment while keeping delivery crisp.
• Raise the bar on engineering excellence: telemetry, experimentation rigor, evaluation frameworks, and live-site health.

What Success Looks Like

• AgenticScheduling becomes the default pathfor users because it consistently saves time and reduces friction.
• Scheduling in Microsoft Calendar is consideredgoldstandardwhen compared to other scheduling systems.
• The experience is trusted: usersdon'tsecond-guesscalendar copilot, and outcomes feel explainable and dependable.
• Engineering teamsthrive:strong ownership, product judgment, high craft, and a culture of inclusion and accountability.
• Teams can execute rapidly, experimenting on a daily basismaking data driven decisions.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Own thetechnicalvision, strategy, and multi-year roadmapfor Calendar Scheduling-partnering closely with product and senior leadership.
• Lead multiple teamsacross core scheduling capabilities, platform components, and end-to-end user outcomes.
• Drive architecture and design quality, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term strategy.
• Deliver measurable outcomes through solid execution: clear goals, milestone planning, risk management, and crisp accountability.
• Build durable cross-org partnershipswith adjacent platform and experience teams (clients, identity, policy, compliance, data, AI platform, etc.).
• Establish quality and evaluation discipline: guardrails, success metrics, offline evaluation, online experimentation, and regression detection.
• Own operational excellence: reliability, latency, incident readiness, and continuous improvement through observability and automation.
• Recruit,retain, and develop talent,cultivatingan inclusive culture and coaching leaders across theorg.