Business Operations Summer Co-op Internship

About Microsoft

Founded by Bill gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, Microsoft Corporation is known for its high-quality software products and hardware products. Innovation is a key ingredient in Microsoft. Their mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Your role

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way.

• You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals.
• This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Business Program Management :

• As a Business Program Management Co-Op Intern, you will be working with a variety of stakeholders from across the company to craft, analyze, orchestrate, and improve various programs and processes at the strategic level. 
• Performs non-technical project completion using an internal customer perspective, typically from initiation through delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.  

Your responsibilities

• Assists others in performing program landscape research and analysis (e.g., internal and/or external market, sales, delivery), forecasting, and examining business trends (e.g., customer feedback and expectations) to identify audience size and program scope, staying current, agile, and competitive.  
• Helps improve operations of existing programs by helping apply industry methodology, define program issues, assess various scenarios, and select the optimal scenario to resolve issues.   
• With oversight from others, contributes to the direction and strategy of leadership regarding the business area of expertise in order to help execute plans that shift current priorities to new organizational initiatives and objectives, and influence others to change behavior accordingly. Learns to define vision and strategy for change, broad and specific impact, and the flow of communication to the organization.  
• Learns how to define and track the success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] and Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]), such as quality, adoption, usage, impact, and effectiveness of the program.  
• Assists others working with cross-functional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering) to design programs from initiation to delivery. 

Training & development

At Microsoft, the interns are provided with a hybrid schedule and can also choose full-time roles for a high-quality experience. It offers many scholarship programs, internships, and full-time opportunities to students and those looking for early career options. As far as Microsoft Internships are concerned, they are designed for in-person and virtual experiences.   

Salary & Benefits

The average annual salary for this role can range from CA$ 49,000 to CA$ 53,000 (Source: Glassdoor). Learn about how Microsoft cares, supports, and invests in their employees so they can help & empower the world.

Benefits:

• Flexible work schedules
• Health care benefits 
• Employee Resource Groups 
• Paid time off & holidays 
• Family Support programs 
• Financial education and tuition assistance 
• Professional development classes 

To learn in detail about their benefits click here

Career progression

Microsoft Canada provides career opportunities to experienced professionals as well as students and recent graduates. The interns are also provided with the opportunity to build community and explore their passions while working on real-world projects. 

Work-life balance

At Microsoft, they value and support flexibility as part of their hybrid workplace where every employee can do their best work by working the way they work best. A hybrid workplace is a mix of workstyles across three dimensions: work site, work location, and work hours. It empowers people to do their best work so they can empower the planet to achieve more. 

Culture & vibe

Their culture leads ways to help people do ordinary and sometimes extraordinary things. They don’t just value differences, they seek them out and invite them in. The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience their culture full of diverse community connections, executive engagement, and memorable events. 

About you

To apply for this role, you must fulfil the following eligibility criteria as stated below:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Available for an 8-month consecutive internship starting April.
• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or a related field with at least one quarter/semester to complete after internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Formal training in project and process management, financial accounting, business strategy, and/or operations.   
• Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners, and customers.   
• Ability to understand business metrics, and customer and market trends.     
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and presentation skills.

How to apply

This role is currently closed. If you are interested in this role, click "Pre-register" and Prosple will inform you once this position opens again.

The basic hiring process at Microsoft Canada includes:

• Written test
• Technical Interview
• In-Person interview