Senior Product Marketing Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

4d•$106,400 - $222,600

About The Position

Azure Customer Success Marketing helps customers get more value from their existing cloud investments. The team owns Microsoft’s authoritative guidance for building and running on Azure, including the Cloud Adoption Framework, the Well-Architected Framework, and the Azure Architecture Center, as well as programs that connect this guidance with engineers and architects. The Senior Product Marketing Manager owns how Azure guidance reaches its audience. The role turns guidance spread across many articles into end-to-end practitioner resources such as ebooks, technical papers, blogs, and video programming. It also hosts and produces Microsoft’s flagship Azure technical video series, which has more than 220 episodes and reaches developers, IT decision makers, and business decision makers. The position combines technical content creation and marketing, requiring close work with subject matter experts and the ability to participate in architecture discussions with cloud solution architects, product teams, and engineering leaders. The role also owns channel strategy, integrated marketing, measurement, and vendor and production partnerships. Current work includes a multi-part technical masterclass series, a move to a fully produced format for the video show, and in-product and agent-driven guidance experiences being developed with engineering. The successful candidate will shape the direction of this active and growing portfolio.

Requirements

Master's degree in Marketing, Communications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 3 years of experience in technical product marketing, developer marketing, technical content, or a related discipline; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and at least 5 years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
Experience writing in-depth technical content for practitioner and architect audiences, such as technical papers, ebooks, reference guidance, or architecture documentation.
Experience presenting technical content on camera or on stage, such as in a video series, livestream, conference session, or webinar.
Hands-on familiarity with cloud architecture and designing, deploying, and operating workloads on a major cloud platform.
Hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Azure and its published guidance, including the Cloud Adoption Framework, the Well-Architected Framework, and the Azure Architecture Center.
Working knowledge of building and operating AI agents in production, including landing zone design, agent operations, security and observability, and cost management.
Experience running integrated marketing campaigns for a technical audience, with demonstrated results in engagement, pipeline, or product usage.
Experience directing vendors, program managers, or production partners against a defined scope, budget, and release calendar.
Experience influencing across organizational boundaries to deliver work that depends on teams outside one's own.
Ability to provide a portfolio of relevant work, such as technical content or hosted video work, for review; candidates may be asked to share links or samples.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Marketing, Communications, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field and at least 6 years of experience in technical product marketing, developer marketing, technical content, or a related discipline; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and at least 8 years of such experience; or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Own the marketing strategy for Microsoft's authoritative Azure guidance, turning framework content into material engineers and architects can act on.
Write and co-author long-form technical content, including ebooks, technical papers, blogs, and narrative overviews that sit above source documentation.
Host and produce Microsoft's flagship Azure technical video series; identify and recruit subject matter experts, shape the topic slate, and carry technical conversations on camera without a script.
Direct the program manager, subject matter experts, and production partners behind a multi-part technical masterclass series, and ensure material reaches the right audiences through the right channels.
Design and run mid-funnel campaigns that move technical audiences from awareness to action across owned channels, community, social, and field motions.
Land guidance through integrated marketing, customer success teams, technical workshops, and partner channels.
Own the public web presence for Azure guidance, including landing experience refreshes and metrics that show whether published content is being found and used.
Shape in-product and agent-driven guidance experiences with engineering and product teams, and build a prioritized backlog linking customer tasks to authoritative sources and delivery surfaces.
Manage lifecycle communications for published guidance, including deprecation, end-of-life, and archive notices.
Coordinate messaging with adjacent product marketing teams to maintain consistency across the portfolio.
Brief and prepare speakers who represent the guidance externally.
Define and track the portfolio measurement plan, including video and livestream performance, content engagement, downstream service referrals, partner actions, and product usage signals.