Job Details
Posted date: Aug 07, 2025
Category: Marketing
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $164,500
Range: $106,400 - $222,600
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Microsoft Global Media Team is responsible for planning, activating and fiscally managing all media spend across Microsoft. The team works across a broad group of internal Microsoft products and business groups, driving business impact by leading the development of innovative and world-class media strategies designed to meet our stakeholders’ unique business goals. The team’s responsibilities extend to driving market intelligence and contributing to Microsoft’s media innovation across media channels and ad technology. Microsoft’s Global Media Team is a diverse, collaborative, solutions-oriented team committed to infusing diversity and inclusion principles into our hiring, our communication, our innovation, and the way we connect with our customers through advertising.We are seeking a proficient and forward-thinking Senior Global Media Manager to join the Copilot Media Team within the Global Media organization. In this role, you will lead paid media strategy, planning, and execution of campaigns and programs. You will be the point person driving strategy for high-profile initiatives, working closely with internal marketing teams and our media agency to deliver impactful results. The right candidate has deep experience across the media landscape (especially digital performance media), a growth mindset, and is eager to innovate at the intersection of media, data, and technology. You thrive on learning and embracing new strategies and technologies - from privacy-first data collaboration to AI-driven optimization - and can translate these into actionable media plans. This is an opportunity for someone with a rich media background who excels in proactive planning, cross-team collaboration, and strategic vision-setting. Confidence in navigating ambiguity, influencing internal partners, and storytelling with data is key to success.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Lead innovative media planning & execution: Develop innovative media strategies and plans that push the envelope and hit business goals. You will plan full-funnel media approaches for key campaigns, blending brand and performance tactics. A core part of impact is applying your knowledge of media channels - from social, search, display, video, Out-of-Home, audio to emerging platforms - and optimizing the mix and messaging across the customer journey. You’ll identify test-and-learn opportunities and infuse them into plans to keep Microsoft’s marketing on the cutting edge. Work with media marketplace to drive and influence partner / ad platform roadmaps and enhancements to drive innovation in Microsoft marketing programs. Collaborate across teams to align and amplify efforts: Build relationships with a wide network of partners - internal marketing teams, engineering/product teams, analytics & insights, Marketing Technology, and our agency and media partners. You will serve as a bridge between these groups, ensuring that campaign plans align with product go-to-market strategies, that we’re leveraging the latest internal tools/data from Marketing Engines & Experiences, and that learnings flow back to inform product teams. Activate first-party data and insights: Help Microsoft build and utilize first-party data foundation in our media execution. You’ll work with our data science, Customer Relationship Management, and marketing tech teams to integrate data from Customer Data Platforms, Customer Relationship Management systems, and cloud analytics into media targeting. Lead in implementing campaigns via Data Clean Rooms and utilizing server-side conversion application programming interface (API) to enable effective targeting and measurement. Ensure operational compliance: You will ensure that all campaigns are executed with the highest level of integrity and efficiency. This includes managing budgets tightly (partnering with finance and agency counterparts to track spend and value delivery), leading accurate creative trafficking (tagging, naming conventions) and brand safety protocols, and adhering to Microsoft’s fiscal and ethical guidelines in advertising.Other
Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualificationsBachelor's Degree in Business, Advertising, Marketing, Communications, or related field AND 4+ years experience in media, marketing, or advertising on the client or agency side OR equivalent experience.4+ years experience working across digital media channels (e.g., pay-per-lead, social, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), programmatic buying, addressable TV).
Additional or preferred qualifications
8+ years experience in media, marketing, or advertising on the client or agency side.8+ years experience working across offline paid media channels (e.g., broadcast TV, cinema, print, audio, out of home.8+ years experience using data-driven media tactics, including advanced targeting models, measurement and learning plans, making optimizations based on data.8+ years experience managing projects (e.g., communications, internal stakeholder management timelines, prioritization, road mapping).8+ years experience search engine marketing campaigns (e.g., keyword governance, ad copy creation, audience targeting).8+ years experience paid social experience (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitch, Twitter, and YouTube).
Media IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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 August 17, 2025.
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