Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted partner to marketing leadership, supporting planning, prioritization, and execution across key initiatives.
• Drive Rhythm of Business (RoB), including leadership team meetings, agendas, follow-ups, and action tracking.
• Partner across Product Marketing, Engineering, Finance, and Field to ensure alignment and forward momentum.
• Step in to advance work independently (e.g., synthesize rough inputs, create first drafts, unblock teams, and drive next steps).
• Identify gaps, risks, and dependencies, and proactively bring solutions.
• Lead and execute internal communications strategy:
• Drive awareness and adoption of key initiatives (e.g., Azure Accelerate for Databases).
• Create and manage internal narratives across channels (emails, updates, leadership comms, field alerts).
• Support external-facing communications:
• Draft social posts, blogs, and executive-ready messaging.

Requirements

• 5-8+ years experience in business management, marketing operations, communications, or consulting
• Proven ability to operate as a peer to senior stakeholders and influence without authority
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (executive-ready)
• Experience managing cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• High ownership mindset with ability to drive ambiguous work to completion

Nice to have

• Experience in enterprise technology or cloud marketing
• Background in executive communications or storytelling
• Familiarity with marketing rhythms (RoB, field alignment, launch planning)