Microsoft

Senior Product Marketing Manager

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

Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or related field with corresponding experience.
  • 8+ years of relevant business experience preferred, with a focus on marketing technology solutions.
  • Experience in marketing cloud identity and security solutions.
  • Proven success in leading product launches and go-to-market programs.
  • Ability to analyze and influence through customer research and insights.
  • Strong storytelling and presentation skills for diverse audiences.
  • Familiarity with AI applications in marketing workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Synthesize insights to identify growth opportunities and strategic priorities.
  • Develop integrated business and go-to-market strategies aligned with customer needs.
  • Influence product roadmap and investment decisions through collaboration.
  • Align cross-functional teams around clear strategy and execution plans.
  • Define differentiated positioning that clarifies capabilities in Microsoft Entra.
  • Lead go-to-market planning for major initiatives ensuring measurable outcomes.
  • Utilize customer and competitive feedback to refine strategy and guide decisions.
  • Establish operating rhythms to enhance transparency and accountability across teams.

Benefits

  • Benefits and compensation details available on the company website.
  • Potential for flexible work arrangements and location-specific pay adjustments.
Full Job Description
Overview

Security, compliance, and identity are mission-critical in an increasingly digital and AI-powered world. Identity and secure access are foundational to building trust in every digital interaction, and Microsoft Entra is shaping how organizations protect people, devices, applications, and AI agents. We are seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to turn market, customer, competitive, and business insights into strategies that accelerate growth for Microsoft Entra Suite. This role will help define where the business should focus, align teams around the highest-impact opportunities, and translate strategy into coordinated go-to-market action. The ideal candidate combines strong business judgment, analytical thinking, and product marketing expertise with the ability to influence and mobilize teams across a complex organization. You will collaborate across product, engineering, business planning, finance, sales, partner, customer experience, analyst relations, and marketing teams to shape priorities, strengthen the portfolio strategy, and improve business outcomes. You will create clarity from complex inputs, connect work across functions, and help leaders make informed decisions that drive awareness, adoption, revenue, and long-term growth.

Responsibilities
  • Synthesize market, customer, competitive, product, and business performance insights to identify growth opportunities and recommend strategic priorities.
  • Develop integrated business and go-to-market strategies that connect portfolio priorities to customer needs, adoption opportunities, and revenue growth.
  • Partner with product, engineering, business planning, and finance teams to influence roadmap, investment, packaging, monetization, and launch decisions.
  • Align marketing, sales, partner, customer experience, and field teams around a clear strategy, shared priorities, and coordinated execution plans.
  • Define differentiated positioning and portfolio narratives that simplify complex capabilities and strengthen Microsoft Entra's Suite value across Microsoft Security and AI solutions.
  • Lead go-to-market planning for priority initiatives, ensuring that audience, scenario, channel, content, enablement, and execution plans support measurable business outcomes.
  • Use customer research, analyst perspectives, competitive intelligence, and field feedback to shape strategy, guide executive decisions, and identify necessary course corrections.
  • Establish operating rhythms and shared roadmaps that create transparency, accelerate cross-functional decisions, and hold teams accountable for delivering growth priorities.
  • Embody our Culture & Values.


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
  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant business experience; or Master's Degree in one of these fields and 6+ years of relevant business experience; or equivalent experience.
  • Experience marketing cloud identity, secure access, security copilots, AI-driven security solutions, agent identity, or other enterprise technology offerings.
  • Experience leading major product launches and integrated go-to-market programs that span product, field, partner, analyst, and customer channels.
  • Experience working with industry analysts and developing analyst-backed positioning, competitive insights, and market education programs.
  • Experience using customer and practitioner research to influence product roadmaps, naming, packaging, positioning, and adoption strategy.
  • Strong executive presence and storytelling skills, including experience presenting to customers, senior leaders, sellers, partners, analysts, and industry audiences.
  • Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience applying AI tools to improve marketing workflows, content quality, insight generation, and team productivity.


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.

About Microsoft

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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