Director Global To Partner Marketing

Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

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

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own global partner marketing with data-driven AI-enabled playbooks, turning market insight into outside-in narratives and multi-year GTM moves for the Microsoft ecosystem.

  • Partner marketing ownership: lead a center of excellence that scales AI-driven best practices, governance, and a test-and-learn culture across a global team.
  • Narrative and demand motion: set integrated messaging, drive full-funnel execution, and align on KPIs that prove partner and customer impact.
  • GTM & AI opportunity: translate TAM, partner insights, and market opportunity into bold, v-next strategies that capture AI value for partners and customers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead a high-performing, cross-functional, diverse, and inclusive team of marketing professionals — fostering AI fluency and a test-and-learn culture — with global accountability to.
  • Lead and grow a high-performing, inclusive partner marketing team that operates as a center of excellence, scaling AI-enabled best practices, career development, and a test-and-learn culture.
  • Set the integrated partner marketing narrative and messaging architecture for all partners in the Microsoft ecosystem, grounded in partner business models, personas, archetypes, and WIFM.
  • Drive global execution across digital channels and full-funnel motions, influencing senior stakeholders and partners to deliver measurable partner and customer success.
  • Set a bold, data-driven vision and multi-year plan for partner marketing communications aligned to partner priorities and designed to exceed business goals.
  • Translate market opportunity, partner insight, and TAM data into outside-in narratives and v-next GTM strategies that help partners capture the AI opportunity.
  • Establish full-funnel KPIs, attribution, operational rigor, and governance across budget, ROI, brand, accessibility, privacy, security, compliance, and Responsible AI standards.
  • Embed generative AI, Copilot, martech, and automation across the marketing lifecycle to increase speed, scale, personalization, localization, and campaign optimization while preserving quality and brand voice.
  • Design AI-orchestrated, signal-based partner journeys and partner-based marketing motions that deliver the right message to priority cohorts at the right moment.
  • Amplify the partner narrative through integrated earned media, AR/PR, social, executive thought leadership, partner hubs, events, and field-ready materials, continuously optimizing against engagement and business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 7+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years people management experience.

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, or related field AND 6+ years sales, marketing, technology-based, or business development experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 8+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience OR equivalent experience.

Benefits

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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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