Job Description

Are you interested in leading a team to help grow one of Azure’s fastest growing businesses? Are you a creative problem solver looking to drive impact? If so, then the Azure Data + AI + Mixed Reality Product Marketing team has an opportunity for you.

We are looking for a strong marketing leader to help grow Azure’s AI business. In this role, you will lead a high-performing team with the charter of defining the messaging and narrative for the Azure AI portfolio and for driving adoption among practitioner audiences. Responsibilities include customer facing technical content, practitioner-focused campaigns, and developing and delivering demonstrations for executive-level event keynotes. This role requires excellent management skills, critical thinking, cross-group collaboration and storytelling skills as well as a passion for developer and data science audiences.

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include the following:

• Active practice Microsoft’s leadership principles of model, coach and care to establish a great work environment for the team and to foster their growth and development
• Deeply understand customer needs and identify common use cases and solution patterns
• Assess competitive landscapes and develop content to highlight our differentiated value and assist sales and customer success teams with compete escalations
• Develop customer facing technical content (e.g., whitepapers, ebooks, architecture guides and videos) to be used across our digital channels
• Help define Azure AI’s presence at Microsoft-hosted events
• Support product disclosures in partnership with engineering, other marketing teams and communications
  

Drive analyst/influencer engagement for Azure AI

• Apply innovative storytelling techniques to create great customer evidence to inspire practitioners
  

Qualifications

Role Readiness Prerequisites:

• 8+ years of product marketing/product management experience
• At least 4+ years proven people manager with excellent leadership skills, a desire to help people do their best work, find their best career path, and supportive of bringing an inclusive perspective to their work
• Aptitude for quickly learning new and emerging technologies
• Experience with AI and machine learning offerings is strongly desired
• Ability to explain customer scenarios and solution architectures in a simple manner
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and storytelling skills are required
• Strong project management, critical thinking and cross-group collaboration skills are required
• A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or some related discipline
• Some travel required
  

open anywhere USA

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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