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Cloud and AI Corporate Marketing Excellence Lead

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Jul 2026

💰 $272,300/yr($130,900/yr – $272,300/yr)

About the role

Overview

At Small, Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C), we are driving a step-change in how marketing fuels growth across the Small, Medium Business (SMB) segment—connecting strategy to execution, investments to measurable pipeline, and signals to revenue outcomes.

As we scale Cloud & AI and AIBS / Security growth, Marketing Excellence plays a critical role in ensuring clarity, alignment, and accountability across the end-to-end marketing engine. This includes prioritizing investments, improving signal quality, strengthening funnel performance, and enabling consistent execution across global and field teams.

The Marketing Excellence team serves as the connective tissue between Corporate Product and Integrated Marketing, Go-To-Market (GTM), Sales Units, Direct Acquisition (E&E), and partner teams—ensuring strategy translates into execution and measurable business impact.

Role Summary

The Cloud and AI Corporate Marketing Excellence Lead is responsible for defining and landing Corporate marketing strategy aligned to the MCEM journey. This role connects strategy, demand generation, signals, and funnel execution to deliver pipeline and revenue impact.

The role requires Cloud and AI level 100 – 200 knowledge, deep cross-functional leadership, working across marketing, sales, and partner teams to align priorities, optimize investments, and improve end-to-end conversion. It also serves as a key feedback loop—bringing insights from performance, sellers, and the field to continuously refine strategy and execution. Success in this role is defined by measurable improvements in pipeline generation, conversion, signal quality, and overall marketing Return on Investment (ROI).

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

Strategy, Demand & Funnel Performance

Set Corporate marketing strategy and investment priorities aligned to business growth goals.

Own demand generation across Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and paid media, aligning targeting strategy to pipeline and revenue impact.

Establish end-to-end governance across signals, leads, and funnel progression with clear prioritization and accountability.

Optimize performance across channels to improve conversion, signal quality, and ROI.

Customer, Content & Integrated Execution

Partner with Corporate Marketing to deliver integrated content, nurture journeys, and digital experiences that drive conversion.

Define retention strategy to reduce churn and expand customer lifetime value.

Align inbound, outbound, and partner motions into a cohesive Corporate GTM approach.

Field Activation & Partner Impact

Lead seller-facing communication to ensure clarity on strategy, priorities, and activation.

Support Corporate event strategy to drive executive engagement and pipeline impact.

Drive partner alignment and pilots to scale co-sell and co-marketing impact.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field
- OR equivalent experience.
6+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (2 years out), Management Consulting, Sales, or Finance.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Demonstrated experience working in highly matrixed, global environments with senior stakeholders across marketing and sales.
Level 100+ knowledge of Microsoft Cloud and AI customer outcomes with the priority workloads, including Azure AI, Azure infrastructure, data and Fabric, Foundry and Security, with the ability to translate into customer-centric Marketing strategies.
Experience partnering with field sales leadership, regional Chief Marketing Officers