Director, Marketing Excellence Operating Unit

Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $272K/yrDirector/Executive6+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the Marketing Excellence agenda across OUs, turning strategy into executable plans with field input, ROI visibility, and scalable enablement.

  • Strategy to execution: align on priorities, investments, and success metrics with field and leadership across GTM Activation.
  • Governance and ROI: oversee OU level investment governance and report on performance with cross‑functional partners.
  • Field feedback loop: synthesize seller feedback and field learnings to raise execution quality and scale best practices.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary Marketing Excellence lead aligned to assigned OUs, partnering with OU leadership, local CMOs, and GTM Activation teams to land GTM and marketing plans.
  • Drive alignment on marketing strategy, priorities, and investments, ensuring clarity on expectations, sequencing, and success measures.
  • Act as the central point of coordination between core Marketing Excellence and the field—gathering input, surfacing gaps, and informing continuous improvement of tools, processes, and initiatives.
  • Lead communications, landing, and enablement to Sales Unit leaders and OU sales teams, ensuring marketing investments are well understood and effectively activated.
  • Oversee marketing investment governance at the OU level, including prioritization, execution tracking, and performance outcomes.
  • Own visibility into ROI and results associated with Marketing Excellence‑led investments, working with partners across Marketing, GTM, and Sales to course‑correct and optimize impact.
  • Synthesize performance insights, seller feedback, and field learnings to improve execution quality and outcomes over time.
  • Own and support OU‑level event strategy and execution, ensuring strong alignment to GTM priorities and Sales Unit needs.
  • Plan and support AI Tour ancillary events and localized demand generation, driving attendance quality, seller engagement, and pipeline impact.
  • Partner with Sales Unit leads and partner teams to plan and execute Co‑Sell Connections events, ensuring rigor, consistency, and measurable outcomes.
  • Lead alignment with Innovation Hubs and Experience Centers, ensuring effective use of immersive experiences to support customer and executive engagement.
  • Support landing and awareness of the Executive MeetingProgram, partnering with executive engagement models (including vendor‑supported 1:few programs).
  • Partner closely with OU CMOs, GTM Activation, Partner Marketing, Sales leadership, and core Marketing Excellence to ensure integrated execution.
  • Create a strong, trusted feedback loop from the field, bringing actionable insights on execution challenges, opportunities, and improvement areas back to the core team.
  • Help scale best practices across regions and OUs by sharing learnings, successful execution models, and repeatable approaches.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (2 years out), Management Consulting, Sales, or Finance.

Nice to Have

  • Experience partnering with field sales leadership, regional CMOs, and GTM teams to land strategy and drive execution.
  • Demonstrated experience working in highly matrixed, global environments with senior stakeholders across marketing and sales.
  • Understanding of marketing investment management, ROI measurement, and performance tracking.
  • Experience leading or supporting large‑scale events, executive engagement, and demand generation programs.
  • Proven ability to influence without authority, drive alignment, and bring clarity in complex environments.
  • Excellent communication skills with comfort presenting to senior leaders and enabling cross‑functional teams.

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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