# Jared Spataro

> Jared Spataro is Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer of AI at Work, a computer scientist turned product and business leader whose two decades inside the company span SharePoint, Office, Microsoft 365, Teams and Copilot. His current work focuses on how people and AI agents will divide responsibility, how businesses will redesign workflows around that partnership, and why human judgment becomes more important as software takes on more execution.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer, AI at Work at Microsoft
- **Organizations:** Microsoft, OpenText, Trados
- **Education:** BS in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Helped lead Microsoft’s transition of Office from packaged software toward the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscription businesses., Held leadership responsibility across SharePoint, Office, Office 365, Microsoft 365, Windows and Microsoft Teams., Led Microsoft’s AI at Work portfolio and research, including work tied to Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.

## Career timeline

- **1998-2001** — Worked at Trados, including as a vice president.
- **2003-2006** — Worked at OpenText as a segment director.
- **2006** — Joined Microsoft as a director for SharePoint.
- **2010** — Became senior director for SharePoint.
- **2013** — Became general manager for Office.
- **2018** — Became corporate vice president for Microsoft 365.
- **2020** — Led work associated with Microsoft Teams during the rapid shift to remote work.
- **2023** — Began leading Microsoft’s AI at Work efforts and the business portfolio spanning Copilot, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
- **2025** — Outlined Microsoft’s 'frontier firm' model as human-led and agent-operated.

## Achievements

- Helped lead Microsoft’s transition of Office from packaged software toward the Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscription businesses.
- Held leadership responsibility across SharePoint, Office, Office 365, Microsoft 365, Windows and Microsoft Teams.
- Led Microsoft’s AI at Work portfolio and research, including work tied to Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
- Became a prominent public interpreter of Microsoft’s research on hybrid work, productivity and AI-enabled organizational change.
- Helped frame Microsoft’s 'frontier firm' concept for organizations built around human-agent collaboration.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published an AI@Work installment on autopilots and Microsoft Scout, describing software that can pursue outcomes with less step-by-step direction.
- **2026-06** — Published an AI@Work essay arguing that token economics is becoming a management concern alongside headcount.
- **2026-05** — Set out a four-stage human-agent operating model - author, editor, director and orchestrator - for organizations becoming frontier firms.
- **2026-04** — Wrote that AI agents are becoming major users of enterprise software, changing how companies should think about interfaces, capabilities and employee judgment.
- **2026-03** — Introduced the idea of Frontier Professionals, people who encode domain expertise into AI-enabled systems and remain responsible for their performance.

## Links

- Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/ai-at-work
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredspa
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/jared_spataro

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Last updated: 2026-08-21