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Posted date: Feb 25, 2025
Category: Marketing
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $199,050
Range: $129,200 - $268,900
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: People Manager
Description
We have a tremendous opportunity to lead in the era of AI with Microsoft AI. As a Director, Product Marketing, you will play a critical role in shaping the narrative around Copilot, influencing the product roadmap, enabling our field with demo assets to accelerate sales and drive successful understanding, preference, and adoption across our customer audiences. The Microsoft 365 Copilot Technical Product Marketing team is looking for someone who is strategic, simplifies the complex, and has a passion for demonstrating product magic. This is a chance to be part of the team that is re-wiring the way the world works.To be successful, you will lead and coach the team accountable for developing the strategy and executing the product demo center of excellence for Modern Work and Business Applications field sellers. Products include: M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, M365 Apps, Teams, Viva, Windows, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. You will be a master storyteller using both products and scenarios to drive end to end (E2E) storytelling in demonstrations (demo).
As a key figure for our Information Technology Decision Maker (ITDM) and IT Pro audiences, you’ll be interfacing with customers and partners as part of our advocacy work to accelerate growth. You are someone who is comfortable behind the scenes but also ready to get on stage and demonstrate storytelling excellence with customers and at large events.
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.
Product Vision and Strategy-You will own intake and prioritization of field demonstration needs and you will own decision-making on the demo asset type based on based on solid understanding of wants and needs. You will help the team define the narrative, content and instructionsofdemos for field scenarios including functional and industry pivots. You’ll also own the rhythm of business (ROB) and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the demo center of excellence to review results with the leadership team to drive continuous improvement. Strategy Development and Execution: Lead and coach the team responsible for developing the strategy and executing the product demo center of excellence for Modern Work and Business Applications field sellers. This will require ability to identify priority scenarios and use cases across the following product areas: M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, M365 Apps, Teams, Viva, Windows, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform. Field Asset Management: Own the intake and prioritization of field demonstration needs and make decisions on the demo asset type based on a solid understanding of wants and needs. Help the team define the narrative, content, and instructions of demos for field scenarios, including functional and industry pivots.Narrative, Storytelling & Demo Delivery: Develop the strategy, core messaging and positioning for demos. Demonstrate excellence in product storytelling and storytelling through demos including ability to deliver world-class demos to customers and at events with TDM/BDM audiences. Platform Strategy: Own the platform strategy for defining the next-generation demo platform for field sellers. This will require the formulation of both long-term strategies and month-to-month execution, and partnership with stakeholders across marketing, sales, and engineering. This role will also require product shaping and enabling our sellers to accelerate deals with demo assets.Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with various departments, including marketing, sales, IT and product engineering to ensure the successful execution of demo assets and environments. Provide guidance to sales and partners on demo excellence to influence pipeline and deal velocity. Customer Centricity: Represent customer voice – needs – and unmet needs – to shape product and marketing roadmap. Project and Change Management: Create and drive project-level, communication and change management plans for field enablement of demos. People Management: Drive employee growth and development, execute projects, and manage performance. Be an ambassador of our culture.
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Qualifications
Required/Minimum QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in businessOR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 4+ years experience in businessOR equivalent experience.4+ years direct people management experience or indirect people management experience (or virtual teams).Experience in building product demonstrations Additional or Preferred Qualifications
6+ years people management experience.Demonstrated capability to quickly grasp new features in a rapidly evolving environment.Demonstrated project management and v-team leadership experience Knowledge of products such as M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, M365 Apps, Teams, Viva, Windows, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
Product Marketing M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $129,200 - $248,800 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 $162,000 - $268,900 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 4, 2025.
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