Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Cloud & AI Devices

Are you also passionate about artificial intelligence and how it can transform businesses and delight customers? As organizations embark on their AI journey, they need a trusted endpoint solution that brings Copilot experiences to life. We recently announced Windows 365 Link, the first Cloud PC device for Windows 365. See the announcement in the following video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQpNTDgzIn8.

If you are passionate about devices, silicon, and AI and want to be part of the future of computing, join the team taking Windows to the cloud to modernize the future of end user computing! Come be at the center of driving technological innovation, strategic planning, and marketing execution for the endpoints for the Windows of the future. In this Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Cloud & AI Devices role, you will identify areas of business opportunity, improve the customer buying journey, and scale business growth with both new and existing Win365 customers. As a Senior Product Marketing Manager - Cloud & AI Devices, you will partner closely with Sales, Finance and Channel teams to create demand forecasting models and drive supply management in partnership with our device manufacturing teams. You will also drive the reseller engagements and programs as we grow this business across the hardware channel. You will lead key strategies and investments in outbound marketing as well as planning for future channel investments and programs in partnership with Go-to-Market (GTM) and device sales teams. This role is critical to connecting Windows Cloud experiences across Modern Work, Windows, and Azure product teams, as well as helping our customers learn about and adopt Windows 365. This is a high-growth, high-visibility role with significant opportunity for growth and leadership

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.

Responsibilities

• Create reseller partner strategy and programs, incentive plans and GTM engagement with Microsoft Windows 365 cloud sales teams.
• Partner with Device engineering, subsidiary sales, finance and supply chain to drive commercial demand and supply strategy across all stages of product lifecycle.
• Drive launch planning processes for new product launches, expansions, and key beat offers and provide supply chain teams with updates on marketing and promotional plans to ensure supply planning reflects the marketing strategy.
• Work with the business planning team to provide customer feedback into the product development process, facilitate collection and analysis of insights to support business planning process and work with supply chain to identify areas of excess inventory to target with additional promo or marketing support.
• Lead Worldwide Sales and Operations meetings to track the variance between plan and actual, recognize deals pipeline, give and get market insights, share supply outlook.
• Define experimentation opportunities, success metrics, measurement methodology, objectives & key results (OKRs), and investment roadmap for owned workstreams, driving ongoing improvements.

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in product marketing or partner marketing, channel management.
  • OR Master's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in marketing, specifically, in commercial software or services targeting the enterprise segment.
• 4+ years experience working with SaaS and/or cloud technologies.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business
  • OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in channel marketing
• Ability to work across shifting priorities and new opportunities.

Product Marketing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 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 $133,700 - $219,200 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 January 29, 2025.

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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