Director, Customer & Partner Marketing

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $272K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own client-centered content strategy and cross-functional orchestration that shift conversations from product features to client outcomes across industries, while embedding an outside-in market view into activation storytelling.

  • Client Insight & Empathy: ground content in real client behavior and feedback across regions and verticals.
  • Activation Content Development: translate capabilities into stories that address client challenges and industry opportunities.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: align Sales, Product, Marketing, and activation teams to land client-centric activations and ensure a consistent experience.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Client Insight & Empathy - Develop a deep understanding of client needs, business pressures, and market dynamics across industries, regions, and verticals.
  • Ensure all work reflects how clients actually operate—grounded in customer behavior, feedback, and real-world use cases.
  • Bring the voice of the client into content creation, influencing priorities.
  • Activation Content Development - Partner to translate Microsoft capabilities and solutions into compelling stories that address client challenges and take on critical industry and vertical opportunities.
  • Shift conversations from products to client outcomes (growth, trust, efficiency, competitive advantage).
  • Identify and build AI enabled approaches to create and distribute content more effectively.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership & Orchestration - Partner closely with Sales to understand client priorities, and real-world objections—and translate these into more effective strategies and solutions.
  • Collaborate with Product teams to ensure content reflects client needs, market dynamics, and product vision and realities.
  • Work with Marketing peers (brand, content, comms) to ensure narratives are consistent, relevant, and resonate externally.
  • Align with activation teams (field marketing, events, partner marketing, agencies) to ensure strategies are executed effectively and land with impact in market.
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Microsoft

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.3B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$5.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.6%
Direct
56.9%
Referral
7.3%
Social
0.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~225.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
6,377 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
21 years
Median Tenure
14 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
44

Funding

Total Funding
$1M
Last Raise
$1M
Post IPO Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Post IPO Equity
  • Jan 2020
    Post IPO Equity
  • Sep 1981
    Series Unknown • $1M

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