Director of Executive Communications
About The Position
Azure Marketing is seeking a communications leader to shape the stories, messages, and executive platform for the Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing. The role translates technical, business, customer, and market experience into clear, compelling stories connecting Azure innovation to customers, employees, partners, and the market. The Director will build a distinctive narrative platform that brings together product innovation, customer needs, and Microsoft’s broader cloud and AI story, with messaging that scales across announcements, keynotes, customer engagements, employee communications, and market moments. The Director will serve as a confident executive partner, providing strategic counsel and helping the executive prepare for high-impact engagements. The role combines writing, storytelling, judgment, discretion, business counsel, social communications, and visual and creative sensibility. It includes shaping presentations and events through narrative, design, and production, either directly or in partnership with designers and production teams. Working across Azure, product and engineering, sales, corporate communications, executive offices, and Marketing, the Director will balance long-range platform development with rapid-response execution. The environment is fast-paced and dynamic, with shifting priorities and sensitive information. The successful candidate will use sound judgment, thrive amid ambiguity, and strengthen the executive’s impact and authentic voice. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The company emphasizes a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and an inclusive culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or a related field and 6+ years of communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience advising and supporting senior executives in a global, complex, or highly matrixed organization.
- Experience developing executive communications across live events, employee communications, social media, and thought leadership.
- Experience leading cross-functional communications programs and advising through confidential, high-stakes situations.
- Experience supporting major product launches, industry events, customer engagements, media moments, or organizational change.
- Experience building and measuring an executive social platform.
- Experience with executive presentation design, visual storytelling, and large-scale event production, including understanding stagecraft, audience engagement, and executive delivery.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or a related field and 8+ years of communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or a related field and 12+ years of communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of specialized functional experience, such as retail or technology.
- 6+ years of experience supporting senior executives in an executive communications role.
- 3+ years of experience working with social media platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated executive communications strategy for the Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, providing candid recommendations on narrative, audience, timing, channel strategy, opportunities, and risk.
- Establish a collaborative working rhythm with the executive, bringing developed drafts and points of view and ensuring preparation for important engagements.
- Develop and maintain an authentic, differentiated executive voice grounded in business priorities, customer needs, and the evolving cloud and AI market.
- Prepare the executive for complex, sensitive, and high-stakes moments and provide practical counsel when priorities change quickly.
- Build and evolve a distinctive Azure Marketing narrative that connects a broad portfolio into a coherent customer and market story.
- Create durable messaging frameworks that scale across audiences, channels, product innovation, and major business moments.
- Translate complex technical, product, customer, and business material into clear, credible, human stories without losing substance or precision.
- Develop speeches, keynotes, presentations, talking points, briefings, executive emails, videos, articles, social content, and other audience-facing materials.
- Lead communications for major internal and external moments, including customer and partner events, employee engagements, media opportunities, and industry events.
- Identify thought leadership opportunities that strengthen the executive’s credibility and advance business priorities.
- Shape the narrative, creative approach, and executive experience for large-scale keynotes, industry events, customer engagements, and other high-visibility speaking opportunities.
- Partner with event production and creative teams to elevate executive presentations through stagecraft, lighting, visual storytelling, and techniques for engaging large audiences.
- Develop or direct executive presentations and visual assets, applying design judgment and brand principles to create polished communications.
- Collaborate with designers, creative agencies, and production partners to translate complex ideas into compelling visual experiences that reinforce the executive’s message and authentic voice.
- Lead the strategy for the executive’s social presence, combining authentic voice, audience insight, creative concepts, and performance data.
- Partner with creative, brand, agency, vendor, and production teams to develop high-quality social assets and formats.
- Shape leadership communications that help employees understand the organization’s strategy, priorities, decisions, and ways of working.
- Align internal and external narratives so employees have context around major announcements and market moments.
- Build and manage an integrated editorial calendar and executive communications pipeline.
- Lead efficient processes for intake, prioritization, drafting, review, and approval.
- Build trusted relationships across Azure, product and engineering, sales, corporate communications, executive offices, and Marketing to bring together insights and strengthen communications.
- Guide agency, vendor, and extended-team support and focus resources on the highest-impact work.
- Use audience feedback, engagement data, and business signals to assess impact and improve future communications.
- Operate effectively amid ambiguity, sensitive information, accelerated timelines, and frequent change.
- Embody Microsoft’s Culture and Values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
