Product Marketing Manager

Overview

The Azure and Industry Marketing team is looking for a Product Marketing Manager with a unique combination of business, technical, and operations expertise to support key stakeholders in streamlining the Azure product portfolio and making sure it aligns with current and future business priorities. This role will require orchestration and collaboration across engineering, business planning, finance, and marketing to enable stakeholder teams to formulate and deliver product strategy, monetization and Go-to-Market (GTM) recommendations to Corporate Vice Presidents (CVP) of Marketing. In this role you will get to work across Microsoft Azure's Customer Solution Area (CSA) teams to enable them to plan the respective portfolio strategy, monetization approaches and land that through a consistent GTM motion.

If you thrive in a high-visibility, fast-paced environment, have a blend of business, technical, and operations expertise, and want to work in a team-based culture focused on development and growth, we'd love to hear from you. Microsoft is on a mission to drive mindshare, consumption, and high revenue growth for the Azure public cloud worldwide.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Work together with cross functional Azure CSA teams (Engineering, Product Marketing, Business Planning, Finance) to establish and execute on a semester planning rhythm going from product concept to launch.
• Building upon the knowledge of others and driving cross-group alignment on portfolio priorities, with a clear definition of success.
• Manage day-to-day Portfolio Planning rhythm and stakeholder processes.
• Establishing processes and frameworks to help Marketing successfully execute launches working across stakeholder teams within Marketing (CSA Product Marketing, GDC and Naming, Launch & Disclosure, etc.)
• Build roadmap planning disciplines working with CSA teams in PMG and their Engineering counterparts to drive downstream strategy and launch.
• Consolidating the timeline of portfolio delivery, incorporating both engineering up-stream dependencies and marketing down-stream dependencies.
• Communicating status, risks, and blockers regularly with extended stakeholder group
• Preparing and presenting agreed-upon recommendations to a variety of stakeholders, including Corporate Vice Presidents of engineering and marketing teams through clear, concise documents and presentations.
• Establish effective working relationships with teams and Business Management partners that support the Microsoft Azure business.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 2+ years experience in business
  • OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business
  • OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Executive presence, cross-group collaboration, and communication skills to influence senior leaders across a highly matrixed organization.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Azure products and services.
• Demonstrated track record of success in Product Management, Project Management or Operations.
• The ability to break giant amorphous problems into discrete solvable components and apply rigorous logic to arrive at solutions.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft's cloud computing strategy and business priorities.

Product Marketing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $83,400 - $167,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $108,900 - $183,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 20, 2024.

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