Bill Spencer
Senior Director, Customer Engineering for Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility and Microsoft Teams at Microsoft
- Role
- Senior Director, Customer Engineering for Microsoft 365 Copilot Extensibility and Microsoft Teams at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bill Spencer
With over 34 years at Microsoft, including 9 years as one of foundering engineers and Senior Director for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Copilot extensibility, I excel at building new products and businesses, thrive in high-performing, cross-functional teams, fostering trust with senior military and civilian executives, and with developers to deliver impactful results. As a founding member of the teams who created Outlook, SharePoint, Windows Media, and Teams, I’ve honed a strategic yet agile approach, excelling in program management, product marketing, and business development. My track record includes negotiating $100M+ deals and securing three patents (including one the Windows Media forerunner of podcasting).Passionate about transforming complex challenges into opportunities, I’m eager to contribute my adaptability, technical acumen, and team-oriented mindset to innovative teams.
Experience
Senior Director, Customer Engineering for Microsoft 365 Copilot Extensibility and Microsoft Teams
Mar 2016 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Microsoft Copilot - managing team of 5 Sr. Program Managers, including a Marine with top secret clearance, helping largest customers adopt Microsoft Copilot and develop AI-enabled applications. Our customers are featured in Satya Nadella Conference keynotes, including Textron and RTX. Primary executive presenter for DoD, DIBS and other strategic customers. Presented webinars attended by hundreds of Gov Cloud customers. See Bill Spencer - YouTube (over 861K views).Microsoft Teams - Convinced leadership of need for feature parity between GCC and commercial Teams immediately before Covid (a first for an M365 product), resulting in $2 billion in annual revenue from Gov Cloud customers. Drove the alpha, beta, and preview programs and, for the first two years of Teams, the sole Customer Program Manager for the fastest growing productivity application in Microsoft history. In 2018, the first to manage the Gov Clouds customers.
Education
Harvard University
A. B.
1981 — 1985
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