Director of Executive Communications

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated executive communications strategy for the Corporate Vice President of Azure Marketing.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, providing candid recommendations on narrative, audience, timing, channel strategy, opportunities, and risk.
• Establish a highly collaborative working rhythm with the executive, bringing developed drafts and points of view and ensuring the executive is fully prepared for important engagements.
• Develop and maintain an authentic, differentiated executive voice grounded in business priorities, customer needs, and the evolving cloud and AI market.
• Prepare the executive for complex, sensitive, and high-stakes moments and provide calm, practical counsel when priorities change quickly.
• Build and evolve a distinctive Azure Marketing narrative that connects a broad portfolio into a coherent customer and market story.
• Create durable messaging frameworks that can scale across audiences, channels, product innovation, and major business moments.
• Translate complex technical, product, customer, and business material into clear, credible, and human stories without losing substance or precision.
• Develop speeches, keynotes, presentations, talking points, briefings, executive emails, videos, articles, social content, and other audience-facing materials.
• Lead communications for major internal and external moments, including customer and partner events, employee engagements, media opportunities, and industry events.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years specialized functional (e.g., retail, technology) experience.
• 6+ years experience supporting senior executives in an executive communications role.
• 3+ years experience working with social media platforms.
• Experience advising and supporting senior executives in a global, complex, or highly matrixed organization.
• Experience developing executive communications across live events, employee communications, social, and thought leadership.
• Experience leading cross-functional communications programs and advising through confidential, high-stakes situations.
• Experience supporting major product launches, industry events, customer engagements, media moments, or organizational change.
• Experience building and measuring an executive social platform.

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, project management, or related experience