Microsoft

Senior Product Marketing Manager

Microsoft$106K — $203K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or related field with 3+ years experience in business, or equivalent OR Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years experience.
  • Preferably a Master's Degree with 6+ years experience, or a Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years experience.
  • Deep fluency in enterprise IT, particularly endpoint management, security, identity, and cloud, with a keen interest in AI.
  • Proven ability to simplify complex technologies into actionable narratives for decision makers.
  • Demonstrated success in creating technical content that drives user engagement and impacts outcomes.
  • Strong collaboration skills, able to work across teams to derive practical insights.
  • Self-motivated and comfortable navigating uncertainty.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary technical expert on Windows for enterprise customers, encompassing endpoint security and management, AI, and related platforms.
  • Develop and maintain the IT-focused technical narrative highlighting Windows' value, adapting it in response to market dynamics.
  • Create and deliver essential technical resources for Windows sales teams, including briefings, demos, and competitive analyses, rapidly incorporating field feedback.
  • Support sales operations by providing tools and materials that enhance seller effectiveness and evolve in tandem with sales strategies.
  • Facilitate communication between the sales team and platform/roadmap teams, ensuring customer feedback informs the sales story.
  • Articulate a compelling narrative around governance and AI within the Windows ecosystem for technical audiences.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous paid time off policy including vacation and holidays.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching contributions.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Be the team's most credible technical voice on Windows in the enterprise, across endpoint security and management, AI and agents, and the broader platform.
  • Build and own the IT-facing technical narrative for the value of Windows, and keep it current as the platform and the competition move.
  • Ship the technical content Windows sellers need to win: briefings, demos, competitive proof, and objection handling, produced fast and improved on real field feedback.
  • Enable the seller motion with the plays and materials that make sellers effective quickly, and adapt them as the motion takes shape.
  • Connect the field to our platform and roadmap teams, so customer insight sharpens the story and what is coming reaches sellers early.
  • Make agentic governance and AI on Windows a credible, differentiated story for a technical organization audience.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Master's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business
    • OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Fluency in enterprise IT: endpoint management and security, identity, and cloud, with real interest in where AI and agents are headed.
  • Ability to translate complex technology into clear narrative that changes what a decision maker does next.
  • Track record of building technical or field-facing content that people actually used and that moved outcomes.
  • Comfort working across product, engineering, and field teams to get to the truth and turn it into something usable.
  • A self-starter who does well with ambiguity.
  • A background that blends technical depth with marketing, product marketing, or technical sales.
  • Familiarity with the Windows ecosystem and the commercial endpoint market. Exposure to how enterprises govern and adopt AI and agents.
  • Experience enabling a field or seller motion at scale.


Product Marketing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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