Senior Executive Communications Manager at Microsoft | Redmond, WA | $106K/yr – $223K/yr

Microsoft

Senior Executive Communications Manager

Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own external executive narrative and high-visibility moments by shaping the point of view, keynote sequencing, and signature platforms that translate tech strategy into human stories for developers, customers, and analysts.

Narrative Development: Own external voice and core storylines tied to the AI strategy across launches and news cycles.
Keynote & Speech Development: Lead end-to-end keynote creation from concept to delivery with engineering and product marketing collaboration.
Events Strategy & Production Prep: Build and prep the EVP for tier-one events with run-of-show, audience analysis, and post-event measurement.

Job Description

Narrative Development (External-Facing): Define and steward the EVP and select additional leaders external narrative architecture — the core point of view, proof points, and storylines that ladder up to Microsoft’s broader product and AI strategy.
Narrative Development (External-Facing): Translate complex technical strategy, product roadmaps, and engineering bets into clear, differentiated stories for developers, customers, partners, press, and analysts.
Narrative Development (External-Facing): Help build and devise key messages with supporting evidence at key points in product and industry news cycles, in partnership with product marketing group (PMG) & public relations (PR).
Narrative Development (External-Facing): Partner with product, research, and corporate communications teams to ensure message consistency across launches, milestones, and reactive moments.
Narrative Development (External-Facing): Develop signature thought-leadership platforms — blogs, op-eds, LinkedIn posts, podcast appearances, and long-form interviews — that build durable industry voice.
Keynote & Speech Development: Own end-to-end keynote development for major industry and customer moments (e.g., M365 Conference, Power Platform, Inner Circle, Microsoft Build, Ignite, customer summits, partner events, third-party industry conferences).
Keynote & Speech Development: Lead the keynote process from concept and outline through final script, including demo storytelling, customer proof, and the through-line that ties technical announcements to a human narrative.
Keynote & Speech Development: Collaborate with engineering leaders, product marketing, design, and demo teams to land technically precise content with cinematic clarity on stage.
Keynote & Speech Development: Iterate quickly — you’re comfortable taking a draft from a sticky-note outline to a 45-minute keynote in days, not weeks, and rewriting it the night before when the demo changes.
Events Strategy & Production Prep: Build the EVP’s annual external moments plan in partnership with the Chief of Staff, communications leadership, and event teams — prioritizing where the executive shows up and why.
Events Strategy & Production Prep: Lead executive prep for tier-one external events: briefing decks, run-of-show, audience analysis, message maps, Q&A prep, social amplification, and post-event measurement.
Events Strategy & Production Prep: Partner with production, design, and audio-video (AV) teams to shape the on-stage experience — visuals, demos, segment pacing, and stagecraft — so the message and the moment reinforce each other.
Events Strategy & Production Prep: Manage customer councils and executive roundtables connected to event moments.
Speaker Management & Coaching: Serve as the EVP and leadership team’s primary speech and presence coach — running rehearsals, giving direct feedback, and partnering on delivery, pacing, and audience connection.
Speaker Management & Coaching: Build the briefing discipline that ensures the EVP walks into every external moment fully prepared: who’s in the room, what they care about, what we want them to leave believing, and what we will not say.
Speaker Management & Coaching: Anticipate and prepare for tough questions — competitive, regulatory, AI safety, customer concerns — with crisp, on-strategy responses.
Internal Communications (~20%): Craft the EVP’s voice for internal moments — all-hands, town halls, written notes to the organization, and culture-defining communications.
Internal Communications (~20%): Ensure internal and external narratives are tightly aligned so employees hear the strategy from their leader before they read it in the press.
Internal Communications (~20%): Partner with the Chief of Staff and HR communications on org-shaping moments (reorgs, leadership changes, milestone announcements).
Cross-Functional Partnership: Operate as a trusted advisor to the EVP and their leadership team — bringing judgment, candor, and a strategic point of view, not just execution.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner deeply with Product Marketing, Corporate Communications, PR, Brand, Social, and the broader Engineering Comms community.

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