Director, Marketing Technology

Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $272K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own strategic leadership of large-scale initiatives across the consumer shopping journey, aligning customer insights with business priorities, technology, and operations while mentoring teams and establishing clear decision frameworks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic leadership for large-scale, complex initiatives across the consumer shopping journey, connecting customer experience, business priorities, technology, and operations across organizational boundaries.
  • Lead high-visibility strategic IC work in cross-cutting areas such as customer identity and other foundational capabilities that shape the end-to-end commerce experience.
  • Translate ambiguous customer and business opportunities into clear problem statements, strategic direction, decision criteria, success measures, and actionable paths forward.
  • Influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without relying on formal authority, using customer insight, data, sound judgment, clear tradeoffs, and strong executive communication to build alignment and momentum.
  • Connect decisions across discovery, consideration, purchase, post-purchase, account, and service experiences so individual initiatives strengthen the broader consumer journey.
  • Contribute the consumer eCommerce perspective to the evolution of our commerce platforms and future-state capabilities, helping connect today’s priorities with the experiences and operating models we are building toward.
  • Establish practical decision frameworks, working agreements, stakeholder forums, and operating rhythms that help complex initiatives move forward with greater clarity and consistency.
  • Mentor and coach team members on strategic thinking, problem framing, stakeholder influence, decision quality, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership.
  • Help evolve team ways of working by sharing repeatable practices, raising the quality bar, and building the skills and operating discipline needed to succeed as our commerce environment changes.
  • Keep risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations visible, enabling timely decisions and measurable customer and business outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of marketing operations, program management, project management, or related experience OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • Lead complex, cross-functional digital and eCommerce initiatives , influencing senior stakeholders, aligning competing priorities, and driving meaningful business outcomes.
  • Translate customer and business needs into clear strategy , including capability requirements, roadmaps, decision frameworks, and measurable outcomes.
  • Bring strong consumer eCommerce and digital platform expertise , connecting customer experience, technology, data, content, operations, and business performance.
  • Navigate complex transformation effectively , partnering across engineering and business teams, addressing privacy, security, accessibility, and compliance considerations, while mentoring others and strengthening ways of working.
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Founded in 1975
Redmond, Washington, US
237K employees (11,715 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$131K/yr – $272K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

MarTech median pay in the United States

$150K/yr

Most pay falls between $100K and $189K. Based on 400 salaries.

See all Microsoft salaries

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

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
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Director, Marketing Technology

Microsoft · Redmond, WA · Hybrid