Senior Product Marketing Manager - Azure

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

4d • $106,400 - $222,600

About The Position

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to shape the future of Microsoft Azure and drive the success of its cloud and AI businesses. Azure spans cloud infrastructure, data and analytics, developer services, and AI platforms, including Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Foundry. The role leads product marketing for an assigned product, solution, or business area, combining technical understanding, customer insight, competitive intelligence, and business analysis to influence product strategy, investment priorities, and growth.

The position partners closely with engineering and program management to understand product capabilities, architectures, deployment models, and customer implementation scenarios. It translates complex technologies into differentiated positioning and clear narratives, assesses competitive solutions and emerging trends, and helps shape product roadmaps and long-term strategy. The role also provides strategic go-to-market direction across positioning, launches, technical content, customer engagement, and sales and partner enablement. It evaluates product performance, adoption, competitive position, and commercial opportunities to support lasting business growth.

The successful candidate brings technical depth, strategic business judgment, customer empathy, and execution skills. They communicate complex ideas clearly to technical and business audiences, engage credibly with engineers, and influence senior stakeholders. Microsoft describes its culture as grounded in a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 3+ years of experience in product marketing or other enterprise technology-related roles; or bachelor's degree in those fields and 5+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience in marketing, positioning and messaging, customer and market insight, competitive differentiation, go-to-market planning, launches, enablement, and measurement.
• Experience partnering across product, engineering, sales, marketing, partner, customer success, or business teams to deliver shared outcomes.
• Experience translating strategy into executable go-to-market plans, readiness, enablement, campaigns, field or partner motions, and measurable business outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 6+ years of experience in product marketing or other enterprise technology-related roles; or bachelor's degree in those fields and 8+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience marketing cloud platforms, developer tools, data and AI services, infrastructure, security, business applications, or enterprise software.
• Experience working with technical audiences and collaborating directly with product managers, engineers, architects, researchers, or developers.
• Experience with the product lifecycle, pricing and packaging, monetization, customer adoption, or commercial models for technology products.
• Experience with global, multi-audience, partner-led, or enterprise go-to-market programs.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management and engineering to understand technical capabilities, architectures, deployment models, and customer scenarios, and use market and customer insights to influence product roadmaps, priorities, and investment decisions.
• Analyze customer needs, competing technologies, emerging trends, and market dynamics to identify opportunities, anticipate industry shifts, and inform product differentiation and business strategy.
• Create value propositions, messaging, and technical narratives that translate complex Azure technologies into clear customer benefits for technical and business audiences.
• Define audience and segment priorities, lead product launches, and develop integrated marketing strategies, content, and sales and partner enablement to drive awareness, adoption, and growth.
• Evaluate product performance, customer adoption, competitive position, and commercial opportunities; use data, customer feedback, and experimentation to identify growth opportunities, address adoption barriers, and improve business outcomes.
• Develop customer evidence, engage industry analysts and influencers, and represent Microsoft at industry events to strengthen product awareness, differentiation, and market leadership.
• Work across engineering, sales, marketing, and partner teams to align priorities, drive execution, and communicate strategic recommendations, results, and business risks to senior stakeholders.
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior