Azure is helping to change the world! It’s core to Microsoft’s mission and critical to our long-term success. There is no more exciting place to work and influence the future than in Azure Marketing! We have an exciting opening to join the Azure Partner Marketing team to help us enable partners around the world to solve customer challenges and build successful businesses with Azure. For Microsoft partners – their success is our success. We’re looking for someone to join our Azure Services Partner Marketing team to focus on Azure first party product innovation to drive partner preference and adoption of Azure. Through close partnership with Cloud Marketing, Global Partner Solutions, and Engineering, this role will create a differentiated story for Microsoft 1st party offerings like Azure Lighthouse, through product innovation and competitive positioning to enable partners to help customers do more, with Azure.

Responsibilities

Develop the to-partner and to-customer value prop, messaging, positioning, and core content for Azure Lighthouse. • Work with Azure engineering teams to create a strategic vision and roadmap for Azure Lighthouse. • Set success criteria, adoption targets, and go-to-market strategy, including event execution, for partners and customers for Azure Lighthouse and the broader Azure Management solution set. • Collaborate cross-company to develop a comprehensive partner-facing narrative that spans the Azure Management solution set. • Work with Partner Center engineering teams to deliver a best-in-class experience for Azure partners across the portfolio of hero programs and initiatives. • Regularly communicate plans to and engage senior leadership across engineering, marketing, and partner organizations to drive clarity and confidence.

Qualifications

Minimum 2-5 years of product marketing or product management experience for technical products • Energy and excitement in cloud technologies, with a desire to get hands-on in technical spaces • Strategic thinking and leadership in translating customer and partner needs into product development to accelerate their transformation. • Strong collaborator, with an ability to generate clarity amidst ambiguity. • Familiarity with cloud computing services partners and the competitive landscape • Exceptional leadership skills and ability to generate energy and alignment cross-company

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.