Product Marketing Manager, Azure and Industry

Microsoft is on a mission to drive mindshare, consumption, and high revenue growth for the Azure public cloud worldwide. The Azure and Industry Marketing team is looking for a Product Marketing Manager, with a unique combination of strategic, business and technical skills to support key stakeholders streamlining the Azure product portfolio and making sure it aligns with current and future business priorities.

This Inbound role will require strong orchestration and collaboration across engineering, business planning, finance, and marketing to enable teams to formulate and deliver product strategy, monetization and Go-To-Market (GTM) recommendations to Corporate Vice Presidents (CVP) of Marketing and Business Planning. In this role you will get to work across Microsoft Azure’s Customer Solution Area (CSA) teams 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’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.  
  
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  

Responsibilities

• Work together with x-functional Azure CSA teams (Engineering, Product Marketing, Business Planning, Finance) to establish and execute semester planning rhythms going from product concept to launch.
• Build upon the knowledge of others and drive alignment on portfolio priorities, with a clear definition of success.
• Establishing processes and frameworks to help Marketing successfully execute launches working across stakeholder teams within Marketing (CSA Product Marketing, Global Demand Center (GDC) and Naming, Launch & Disclosure, etc.)
• Build and execute roadmap planning initiatives working with CSA teams in (Product Management Group) (PMG) and their Engineering counterparts to drive downstream strategy and launch.
• Manage day-to-day Portfolio Planning rhythm and stakeholder processes.
• 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
• Other
  • Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required 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.
• 2+ years of experience within GTM/Marketing strategy, Product Management, Project Management or Operations.