Microsoft Copilot Enablement & Governance Lead

Role Summary

Own the enablement, governance, and scaling of Microsoft Copilot across the enterprise - agents, plugins, connectors, and advanced extensibility - so that high-value capabilities are adopted securely, compliantly, and cost-effectively. The role curates and prioritizes what gets rolled out, drives capabilities through end-to-end approvals, and enforces the guardrails and lifecycle controls that keep Copilot trustworthy at scale. It requires balancing innovation velocity with risk management and operational rigor.

Key Responsibilities

Capability Prioritization & Enablement

• Curate, prioritize, and roll out Copilot agents, connectors, and extensibility features based on business value and roadmap fit.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog and release pipeline of capabilities, balancing demand from the business against enterprise readiness.
• Support enablement campaigns, documentation, and training so users adopt capabilities in the intended, governed way.

Governance & Approvals

• Lead end-to-end approval processes with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Architecture, ensuring every capability meets enterprise compliance and risk standards before release.
• Own the intake-to-approval workflow - capability assessment, risk review, sign-off, and exception handling.
• Maintain the audit trail and documentation that demonstrates compliance for internal and external review.

Platform Governance & Controls

• Define and enforce guardrails for connectors, plugins, data access, and agent lifecycle management - design, release, monitoring, and retirement.
• Manage the full agent lifecycle, including retirement and decommissioning of capabilities that are obsolete, redundant, or non-compliant.

Extensibility & Integration

• Oversee the integration of internal and external systems - APIs, connectors, and third-party agents - within a governed framework.
• Set the patterns and approval criteria for safely extending Copilot with enterprise and external data sources.
• Partner with security and architecture teams to ensure integrations are secure, supportable, and aligned to standards.

Monitoring, Reporting & FinOps

• Establish usage analytics, performance monitoring, and reporting to track adoption, value realization, and capability health.
• Own cost management - pay-as-you-go (PAYG) controls, budgets, and spend optimization - to maximize value per dollar.
• Use monitoring insights to continuously tune the capability portfolio, retire low-value items, and inform prioritization.

Required Qualifications

• Strong, current familiarity and hands-on experience with M365 Copilot capabilities - e.g., out-of-the-box (OOTB) agents, agent builder, Copilot Cowork, Project Scout, and related extensibility features.
• Proven track record in governance, with demonstrated security/compliance alignment in an enterprise environment.
• Cross-functional leadership experience working across Security, Legal, Privacy, and Architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to balance innovation velocity with risk management and operational rigor.
• Experience with usage analytics, cost/FinOps management, and capability lifecycle management is strongly preferred.

Key Competencies

Copilot/agent platform expertise · governance & compliance · cross-functional leadership · extensibility & integration · FinOps & analytics · risk-balanced decision-making.