Responsibilities

 Specific areas of responsibility include:
- Defining and delivering business model decisions
- Determining offers, pricing and licensing
- Driving market intelligence analyses (both quantitative and qualitative) to formulate strategic vision and inform business case
- Proactively looking for opportunities to adjust and optimize business models based on market performance
- Developing key business performance metrics and reporting in partnership with Finance
- Creating and delivering readiness materials for internal and external audiences

Basic Qualifications:
• 5-7 years in product marketing/management, finance, and/or management consulting required.
• BS/BA degree required, technology or engineering background preferred

Recommended Qualifications:
• Able to frame a problem or opportunity and apply structured problem solving to develop recommendations that move the business forward
• Comfort working in an unstructured environment that requires solving complex, open-ended issues, sometimes with incomplete data
• Strategic thinker who will bring rigorous and disciplined frameworks to solving problems, with an ability to question the status quo
• Experience leading, collaborating and driving decision making with diverse teams of peers (Marketing, Finance, Engineering, Legal)
• Excellent cross-functional project management skills
• Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering on future roadmap
• Detail-oriented, and demonstrates excellent communication and leadership skills, with ability to influence at the Corporate Vice President (CVP) level
• Comfortable in fast-paced environment, and able to manage ambiguity
• Proactive and results-oriented team player
• Passion for technology and understanding of SaaS services
• Strong bias for action and continuous learning
• Desire to be part of a diverse, customer-obsessed and team-oriented environment
• MBA strongly preferred

Growth Opportunities:
• Formal and informal training programs
• Coaching and mentorship (e.g., personal leadership coach)
• Structured onboarding programs
 

Qualifications

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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