• Product Marketing Manager

    Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)


    Overview

     

    Are you passionate about shaping the future of cloud computing? Do you excel at crafting innovative marketing strategies for high-impact, rapidly growing businesses? If so, join the **Azure Infrastructure’s adaptive cloud team** to lead the evolution of our product marketing and growth strategy, centered around Microsoft’s groundbreaking adaptive cloud approach.

     

    The **Azure Infrastructure’s adaptive cloud marketing team** is on a mission to empower organizations to maximize their IT investments across diverse systems. By advancing Azure products, thought leadership, and go-to-market strategy, we enable our salesforce and partner ecosystem to deliver unparalleled value to customers.

     

    As a **Product Marketing Manager** on this team, you will drive the marketing strategy and content for agentic cloud operations and shape the direction and roadmap for products such as governance, security, backup and disaster recovery. You will also represent the adaptive cloud team in an Azure Infrastructure sale play, ensuring that our product and GTM strategy are effectively executed in the field, customer/partner briefing, and events.

     

    Join us to shape how enterprises worldwide manage and secure their cloud operations, driving the next wave of innovation in adaptive cloud.

     

    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

    + Develop and execute the marketing strategy and content (pitch deck, demos, customer stories, etc.) for Azure’s agentic cloud operations services portfolio.

    + Lead launch and disclosures. Create and maintain compelling value propositions, messaging, and positioning for adaptive cloud offerings.

    + Amplify the adaptive cloud approach through marketing campaign and field enablement.

    + Contribute to Azure Infrastructure sales play v-team as a subject matter expert on the adaptive cloud approach.

    + Gather customer insights and analyze competitors to refine product portfolio positioning.

    + Identify opportunities in the operations and management space, contributing to strategic whitepapers and influencing the adaptive cloud roadmap through insights and collaborations.

    + Craft industry-specific narratives with tailored storytelling and materials to highlight benefits, address regulatory challenges, and influence engineering to close product gaps.

    + Create impactful content and land messaging at industry events.

    + Foster strategic partnership with teams across Microsoft to amplify adaptive cloud’s reach through sales enablement, field support, interactive demos, etc.

    + Manage marketing budget, KPIs, ROI and reporting on customer adoption, revenue, and program effectiveness.

    Qualifications

    Required/minimum qualifications

    + Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in business

    + OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 2+ years experience in business

    + OR equivalent experience.

    Additional or preferred qualifications

    + Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business

    + OR Bachelor's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business

    + OR equivalent experience.

    + 3+ years of experience in product marketing, product management, technical marketing or related roles in the technology industry.

    + Understanding of cloud operations and cloud computing, hybrid, multicloud and edge concepts, technologies and customer needs.

    + Proven ability to develop and execute effective marketing strategies and programs for complex and technical products and solutions.

    + Excellent communication, presentation, storytelling and writing skills, with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences and channels.

    + Strong collaboration, influence and cross-team coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders and partners across the organization.

     

    Product Marketing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 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 $112,000 - $185,300 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

     

    This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

     

    Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)