Sr. Product Marketing Manager
About The Position
Microsoft is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to shape cross-portfolio marketing narrative, storytelling, and growth strategies for its Cloud Security portfolio, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The role partners with engineering to shape product vision, prioritize investments, and deliver a customer-facing roadmap. It leads cross-portfolio messaging and positioning and develops go-to-market strategies intended to drive product preference, adoption, and revenue. As a spokesperson and subject matter expert, the role represents Microsoft Security to internal and external audiences. This is a high-impact individual contributor position with broad scope and visibility in a key growth area. The team emphasizes curiosity, clarity, collaboration, inclusion, and mutual support.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 3+ years of experience in business; or bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 5+ years of experience in business; or equivalent experience.
- Deep experience creating messaging and engaging content that presents product scenarios in terms of customer outcomes.
- Cross-group collaboration skills to work across functions and solution areas.
- Executive communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to translate complex ideas into simple customer stories.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 6+ years of experience in business; or bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 8+ years of experience in business; or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in security solutions and/or adjacent enterprise SaaS categories.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Cloud Security Engineering on product strategy, including product vision and roadmap.
- Foster relationships across Security Marketing, Engineering, Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, and other teams.
- Drive analyst relationship strategy and expand recognition in relevant categories.
- Build expertise in the product, customers, and market; engage customers, field sellers, and partners; and present regularly to large and small audiences.
- Lead messaging and positioning for the Cloud Security portfolio and innovations.
- Drive cross-portfolio storytelling across marketing campaigns, product launches, industry events, media, and analyst engagements.
- Create compelling, customer-centric content across mediums, including webpages, customer pitch decks, blog posts, FAQs, and videos.
- Use telemetry, market research, and competitive analysis to derive insights into customer habits and preferences and inform go-to-market plans.
- Collaborate with business planning on business model, pricing, and packaging decisions, and bring these innovations to market.
- Embody Microsoft’s culture and values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
