Senior Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft

As businesses transform digitally and organizations worldwide adopt generative AI, protecting sensitive data and detecting and reducing risk across mediums including communications is increasingly important for organizations of all sizes. At Microsoft, helping customers leverage Copilot to protect data and reduce communications risks are critical giving them peace of mind. The ability to detect risk in communications and leverage AI to protect data across their estate should be a key part of every organization’s security strategy.

We’re looking for a customer-obsessed Senior Product Marketing Manager to join our team of collaborative marketing members who are individually brilliant, love working with each other, take ownership, and embrace a growth mindset. In this role you will be responsible for marketing Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and the integration of Copilot in Purview solutions. Your primary objectives are to increase awareness, help drive sales, deployment, and usage, while always keeping an eye on our competition. This role requires proven storytelling expertise, strategic thinking, business acumen, and a passion for our customers.

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
• 2 years experience of product marketing / product management and/or technology evangelism experience within the cybersecurity space
• Experience creating narratives targeted to different segments, delivering clear outcomes and a call to action
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization influencing engineering, sales, and marketing outcomes

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
• Ability to proactively and quickly learn new and emerging technologies and ability to explain key end-user scenarios and technical architectures to technical audiences
• Curiosity to understand the nuances of the solution, identify key competitive differentiators and be able to simplify the messaging for the customers, partners, and sales teams.
• Strategic thinker who is curious, resilient, goal oriented with a bias for action, and can look at the big picture to connect dots
• Passion for understanding customer needs and delivering exceptional ‘product truths’ that differentiate products in a rapidly changing landscape
• Thrive in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment
• Analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to use data to build and present business cases to key stakeholders
• Embrace and live the Microsoft culture, with unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion

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

To reach our goals in this market, you are focused on the customer and business outcomes and have experience in building partnerships with engineering teams to influence the product roadmap. You can look end-to-end across the business from marketing campaigns to readiness to product strategy to partner to field to competitor to help improve product, deliver offers, land scale through partners and field, and deliver great digital marketing.

Influencing engineering on product roadmap to deliver innovation, ensure competitiveness, and meet customer needs

• Collaborating with business planning on business model decisions and then bringing those to market
• Narrative integration into the broader data security campaign strategy
• Finding opportunities to build integration with the broader Microsoft Security suite of solutions
• Influencing field and partner marketing for readiness
• Owning and delivering the value proposition of the product in messaging and in content
• Owning the web-site presence for Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance
• Deeply understanding competitors and building strategies to address them
• Listening to field input from sellers to influence your marketing motions
• Identifying opportunities to grow the overall Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance business