Azure Cloud Adoption Product Marketing Manager
Enabling customers with the right expertise, business guidance, governance, and security systems to support efficient, ongoing operations is critical to successful Azure implementations. Embedding these topics as part of every customer conversation helps ensure that each project is a successful engagement. Every successful engagement makes it easier to win each subsequent one, so setting up customers for success is foundational work for our customers' success.
The Azure Customer Succes team seeks a Sr. Product Marketing Manager to lead the Go-To-Market (GTM) execution of the Cloud Adoption Framework and related initiatives. The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is the unified approach to guide customers through a successful cloud journey as they implement digital transformation initiatives to enhance and continue to grow their business. Helping customers navigate this journey, from business and financial centric conversations, while aligning technology decisions to business goals, setting proper change management, supporting a broad set of audiences within the organization -from business and technical leaders, to architects, developers, and IT implementers- is a comprehensive and critical task for all our customers success.
As the right candidate, you must have a well-rounded background in cloud technologies, possess sales or marketing familiarity, strong communication skills -both oral and written-, and will have demonstrated experience managing sizable, multi-team, highly visible projects. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or changing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done.

Responsibilities

As a Sr. Product Marketing Manager for Azure Cloud Adoption, you will be expected to:
• Lead and support Azure Cloud Adoption GTM to drive content planning and define a strategy, to execute across field, partner, and to-customer motions
• Be the storyteller and drive ongoing updates of Azure Cloud Adoption positioning and messaging decks, assets, and web properties
• Consume and understand lots of information, both analytical and conceptual, to make educated decisions and define strong OKRs
• Support other GTM initiatives to meet cross-Azure strategies and business goals
• Be a strong and influential leader with a drive to get things done
• Lead and collaborate across multi-functional teams from ideation to execution

Qualifications

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Qualifications:
• BA/BS degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of sales, marketing, and/or product management experience in cloud technologies
• Customer empathy, understand their pains and find ways to help them succeed
• Strategic thinker combined with strong ability to execute across the organization, build clarity when there is ambiguity and drive for results
• Excellent project management skills, leading cross-functional virtual teams with the ability to prioritize, sequence, execute and deliver projects on time and on budget
• Ability to tackle problems independently and with new ways
• Strong, confident executive communication (written and oral)
• Ability to influence without authority and represent the team, both internally and externally
• (Preferred) Strong analytical skills, able to distill key insights from incomplete data
• (Preferred) Understanding of Microsoft’s sales motion and Microsoft Partner business models