Sr. Associate, Product Management - Copilot and M365 Automation

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP; Springfield (IL); On-site; USD 74,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, is seeking a Senior Associate Product Manager to own U.S.-hours product management for Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, and automation workspaces. The role covers configuration, audits, rollout management, and governance alignment across U.S. and India teams.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 3+ years in product management or related fields, and strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 tools, governance, and reporting. English proficiency required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Platform, and governance models.
• Strong written and verbal communication, backlog management, and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day ownership of Copilot and M365 automation services.
• Manage license governance, audits, and reporting for adoption and utilization.
• Plan and manage rollouts across pilot groups and deployment waves.
• Support citizen development through governance, templates, and reusable patterns.
• Coordinate with security, compliance, and legal for governance documentation.
• Serve as a U.S.-hours escalation point and communicate status to stakeholders.

Skills

Platform Administration

License Governance

Rollout Management

Citizen Development

Governance & Security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Confluence

SharePoint

Power BI

Entra ID

Job description

Overview Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring.

Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law.

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Job Description

The Senior Associate Product Manager provides U.S.-hours product management and operational ownership for Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 automation, including the Power Platform workspaces for citizen development. (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse). This hands‑on role covers configuration coordination, documentation, automated and exception‑based audits, reporting, rollout management, license governance, and day‑to‑day operational oversight. It also supports citizen development by ensuring Copilot and M365 automation use cases are governed, documented, and aligned to the firm’s operating model, and coordinates execution across U.S.‑ and India‑based teams.

Essential Job Functions & Duties

• (25%) Platform Administration, Configuration Coordination, and Operational Oversight: Provide day‑to‑day operational ownership of Microsoft Copilot and M365 automation services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, and the Power Platform designated workspaces within our citizen development framework (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and Dataverse). Coordinate tenant, environment, connector, and citizen development workspace configuration with IT, identity, and platform engineering teams; manage access provisioning, security group and RBAC requests, user lifecycle processes, intake queues, and service health monitoring; and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures. Identify and implement opportunities to automate, standardize, and streamline recurring workflows.

• (20%) License Governance, Automated Audits, and Reporting: Own license governance for Copilot and Power Platform entitlements within our citizen development workspaces, including assignment, reassignment, reclamation, eligibility criteria, renewal and true‑up inputs, and cost tracking. Design, operate, and continuously improve automated and exception‑based audit processes for agents, flows, apps, connectors, sharing, and permissions to confirm ownership, compliance, and continued business value. Produce adoption, usage, license utilization, support quality, and audit reporting for stakeholders and leadership, and recommend license, budget, automation, and process improvements.

• (20%) Rollout, Release, and Change Management: Plan and manage rollouts across pilot groups, business units, and deployment waves, including readiness criteria, entry and exit gates, configuration changes, communications, training coordination, and post‑release review. Monitor the Microsoft roadmap, Message Center, and release notes to evaluate new Copilot, M365, and Power Platform capabilities for enterprise fit, risk, usability, and business value, and translate approved changes into scheduled rollout and enablement activities.

• (15%) Citizen Development Enablement and Use‑Case Governance: Support citizen development by ensuring Copilot and M365 automation use cases are governed, documented, and aligned to the firm’s operating model. Operate use‑case intake, registration, review, and approval; maintain the solution inventory, ownership records, standards, templates, and reusable patterns; and define criteria for promoting maker‑built solutions to supported status or retiring them. Partner with Learning & Enablement, Innovation, and the maker community to develop training materials, product guides, FAQs, office hours, and responsible‑use resources.

• (10%) Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use: Maintain usage policies, acceptable‑use guidance, access standards, data loss prevention and environment policies, governance documentation, and operating procedures in partnership with Security, Compliance, Legal, Records, Finance, and AI governance stakeholders. Monitor for oversharing, data exposure, unapproved connectors, orphaned automations, control gaps, and emerging risks; elevate issues while balancing appropriate safeguards with usability and business enablement.

• (10%) Product Operations, Global Delivery, and Stakeholder Communication: Provide product direction, priorities, requirements, user stories, and success criteria to India‑based operations and execution teams. Coordinate sprint planning, backlog refinement, cross‑time‑zone handoffs, asynchronous updates, delivery reviews, dependency management, structured feedback, and blocker resolution. Support other AI Lab tools in the firm’s portfolio by contributing to documentation, testing, release readiness, operational procedures, user guidance, and issue tracking as needed. Serve as a U.S.‑hours escalation point for end‑user and business‑stakeholder issues, and communicate product status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and outcomes to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.

• Perform other duties and contribute to related initiatives as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in computer science, business, information systems, or a related field.

• Microsoft certifications such as PL‑900 (Power Platform Fundamentals), PL‑200, or MS‑102 are preferred.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience required in product management, technical product ownership, platform operations, or a related field, including experience supporting Microsoft 365, Copilot, Power Platform, workflow automation, or comparable enterprise SaaS and business‑productivity platforms.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform suite (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and Dataverse), including environments, connectors, data loss prevention policies, managed environments, and the Power Platform admin center, supporting citizen development workspace governance and operations; Microsoft 365 administration and service management; license models, entitlement governance, and cost controls; product lifecycle and backlog practices; access, provisioning, and support workflows; citizen development and low‑code governance models; adoption and enablement methods; and responsible AI principles. Familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, RBAC, Microsoft Purview, sensitivity labels, and oversharing controls is preferred.

• Strong product judgment, requires definition, roadmap, and backlog management, stakeholder alignment, analytical problem‑solving, documentation, facilitation, and written and verbal communication skills.

• Able to prepare product briefs, user guides, runbooks, audit and reporting packages, release communications, requirements, and leadership updates, and to use tools such as Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Power BI, and Microsoft 365.

• Able to balance product thinking with hands‑on operational follow‑through; develop automated, repeatable audit and reporting routines with accuracy and consistency; translate user feedback into prioritized improvements; coordinate distributed teams across time zones during U.S. business hours; manage multiple priorities; and work effectively with technical, risk, finance, enablement, and business partners.

• English proficiency required.

Compensation

The pay rate range for this job position are listed below. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of relevant factors including but not limited to applicant's skills, prior experience, qualifications, degrees, professional certifications, work arrangements and geographic location. Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.

The national pay rate range is $74,200 to $148,230.