Security Portfolio Senior Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Security is critical to that mission. In the Microsoft Security marketing team, our goal is to bring our innovative, market-leading solutions to every market in the world. As the Security Portfolio Senior Product Marketing Manager you will play a pivotal and strategic role in delivering on this mission and goal. You will establish a disciplined, market-in approach to storytelling for Microsoft’s security product portfolio. You will create messages, content, and stories that establish unique brand positioning that is recognizable, resonates, and drives brand love.

We are a dedicated, fun team of marketing and security subject matter experts from a variety of backgrounds. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. We are curious and eager to learn from each other, and passionate for the success of our team and our partner teams’ growth. 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.

If you get excited about making the world a safer place, if you are great at influencing across matrixed organizations, and if you want to work on a fast growing $20 billion business, this may be the role for 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. 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business
  • OR Masters Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience
• Experience in cybersecurity/IT marketing in organizations at global scale
• Experience in creating customer-facing content, including product marketing, thought leadership, and general marketing collateral for a portfolio of B2B products
• Knowledge of security/IT buyers and users, firmographics and buying behaviors within enterprise and mid-market B2B

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business
  • OR Masters Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience
• Communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to tailor the content and the delivery to different audiences and formats and can influence decision making across executives and the broader organization
• Experience writing/creating marketing strategies that are based on market and audience segmentation and analysis
• Comfortable speaking/presenting to small and large audiences
• Ability to provide examples of written work, presentations, and recordings of content delivery

Product Marketing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 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 $133,700 - $219,200 per year.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 1, 2024.

Responsibilities

• Create simple and compelling messages, positioning, and stories for the Microsoft Security portfolio for content integration into campaigns, pitch decks, executive communications, videos, demos, sales enablement, key launches, events, and moments
• Own the messaging framework for the Microsoft Security product portfolio, keynote presentations for major events, and pitch decks for portfolio-level product packaging
• Partner closely with product line PMMs within the Microsoft Security business to integrate security portfolio messaging into security product messaging and vice versa (messages that ladder up, down, and connect across)
• Partner closely with PMM teams across Microsoft’s other businesses to integrate Security messaging into the top-level Microsoft messaging and other product/business narratives for key moments, launches, and big keynote stories
• Manage portfolio marketing knowledge base including persona profiles, firmographics, and market definitions/segmentation, business information that can be leveraged as proof points
• Partner closely with marketing research teams to drive ongoing marketing research, tracking MS Security brand perception, consideration, preference, and audience trends/dynamics relative to our main competitors