Developers are the builders of our era, writing the code that powers every application, experience, and digital business we interact with today.

Our Azure X-Apps Marketing Team is working on the Azure Application Developer Program. We create messaging that connects with technical decision makers and developers, author creative hero scalable content, lead keynotes and developer sessions at tier-1 events and build flagships demos to get developers inspired and excited about building end-to-end applications in Azure.

Are you a great storyteller and interested in creating our narrative for Azure development? Are you passionate about the future of application development in the cloud era? Are you ready to articulate to technical decision maker audiences why empowering developers to build productively, collaborate securely & globally, and scale innovation are the key to drive application innovation and digital transformation in every company? Are you ready to inspire the crowd and influence the story and technical content for tier-1 event keynotes, hero sessions and online content? Are you interested in creating and improving our digital experiences to share real customer and developer stories, training, ebooks, demos, blog posts and help announce exciting news and product releases to millions of developers? If your answer is yes, then the Product Marketing Manager is the job of your dreams!

Join a team of technical product managers that are working on storytelling, technical content and deep-dive demos for end-to-end application development in Azure. Join us to help inspire businesses and enterprise customers to build the apps of the future and win the hearts of developers.

We love to connect with our customers and create learning experiences and resources that help technical decision makers understand the future of cloud application development and developers grow their skills and build any kind of application with their favorite tools and languages, collaborate with the largest developer community on the planet, and release apps in an open and innovative end-to-end cloud platform. We work closely with multiple product engineering teams, our global field and the developer community at large.

Responsibilities

• Be the marketing subject matter expert on Azure application innovation, including storytelling through different channels and collaborating to produce both internal and external communications.
• Lead monthly updates and help socialize and evangelize messaging consistency for Application Innovation and help build a portfolio of pitch decks and collateral to align with Microsoft's constantly evolving promise to developers.
• Lead the v-team driving our Application Innovation in Azure GTM and all collateral and workstreams.
• Work broadly across Azure engineering, marketing teams, global sales and field stakeholders to create technical content (whitepapers,100-300 level decks, demo assets, training content and videos) that is easily consumable by corporate teams, WW field, and Microsoft Partners.
• Collaborate with our Azure marketing leadership team and global technical sales team on technical readiness motions, content, and internal events for application innovation.
• Session lead for 100-300 level keynotes and hero sessions at select tier-1 events (external and internal).
• Broad and on-going executive speaker management, support for keynotes, and general internal and external session content including session messaging and decks.
• Present pitch decks, technical content and demos at select WW field calls and events, Microsoft Partner events, Press events, and EBCs.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of the developer audience, as well as technical breadth and understanding of E2E application development with Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and Azure is required.
• Passion to proactively and quickly learn new and emerging technologies and ability to explain key end-user scenarios and technical architectures to customers and technical audiences.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and storytelling skills are required. Public speaking is a plus.
• Experience in leading technical discussions with engineers and non-technical discussions with C-level audiences, internally at Microsoft and externally at public forums and conferences.
• Strong project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills are critical to your success in this position.
• Experience with enterprise customers and building presentations and delivering product demonstrations and speaking at events and conferences is a big plus.
• 3-5 years of technical product marketing / product management and/or technical evangelism experience is preferred.
• A profound sense of ownership and accountability is absolutely required alongside the ability to influence, inspire large and sometimes skeptical audiences.
• A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Business Management, Computer Science, or some related discipline is preferred.
• Some travel to select tier 1 and third-party events is required.
• Vendor and budget management is a plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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