Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI Partner Marketing

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a game-changing technology that is reshaping our world. As a leader in this field, Microsoft is looking for a Senior Product Marketing Manager (PMM), Azure AI Partner Marketing individual who can help Microsoft leverage partnerships to drive growth, adoption, and customer success across our Azure AI portfolio. This includes partners who have Generative AI Large Language or Small Language models, be they foundation, frontier, or open-source models. It also includes partners who may have services or products that complement and can be used with our Azure AI portfolio. This role requires a strategic and operational mindset, as well as the ability to lead innovative and impactful go-to-market programs that drive business growth and customer success.The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.As the Senior Azure AI Partner Marketing PMM, you will be part of the Azure AI Product Marketing team, which is accountable for positioning, go-to-market and growth for Microsoft’s Azure AI portfolio. The portfolio includes both Azure AI Services and Azure OpenAI Services. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, and driven individual who has technical skills, cross-team collaboration, thought leadership, marketing strategy, and performance measurement skills. You will lead a virtual team that works with emerging technology, creates alignment and action across teams, removes roadblocks and simplifies complex concepts. You will also work closely with engineering, business development, legal, corporate, and cross-functional marketing teams.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.Responsibilities As the Senior Azure AI Partner PMM, you will provide business leadership across a diverse internal team and are the partner facing leader that will accelerate marketing alignment, communication, and solution evangelism across Azure AI to address market opportunities.You will design the marketing and co-marketing strategy to drive adoption – this includes partnering closely with our engineering, business development, and business planning to design the path for Azure AI’s partner-driven growth. It will require using analysis to determine the best growth path for the product/business, soliciting internal feedback to validate the strategy, evaluating the competitive landscape, and using financial insights to inform decisions.You will drive formal quantitative and qualitative competitive analysis on key AI technologies or solutions areas deemed high priority. Evangelize the solution and its customer promise – as a marketing leader, a key accountability is to build and execute the marketing plan for Azure AI.Other ResponsibilitiesIdentify and maintain demonstration assets. Demonstrate partner solutions based on specific Azure AI products. Leverage partner/customer teams as needed to prove capabilities and integration into customer environment. Review partner demonstrations and provide feedback to ensure alignment with Microsoft standards.Co-develop joint positioning, messaging, and co-drafting press releases; identify and craft joint customer stories/case studies; maintain relevant web content relating to partner solutions.Establish and maintain key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Engineering, Business Development, Legal, Finance, Marketing). Share knowledge with internal virtual team and stakeholders to leverage and broaden technical/product knowledge and market awareness to inform strategic business decisions.Embody our culture and values.QualificationsRequired/Minimum QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in businessOR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in businessOR equivalent experience.Project management, critical thinking, and cross-group collaboration experience.Additional Or Preferred QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in businessOR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in businessOR equivalent experience.Aptitude for quickly learning new and emerging technologies.Experience with AI and machine learning offerings is desired.Ability to explain customer scenarios and solution architectures in a simple manner.Effective verbal and written communication experience and storytelling experience.#J-18808-Ljbffr