Director of Product Marketing Management for Education

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$131K/yr – $272K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own education product narrative and market insights to shape a global AI in Education strategy with clear, differentiated value for higher ed and lifelong learning.

  • Must-have: 4+ years in go-to-market/product marketing in education with advanced degree or 6+ years with bachelor’s.
  • Standout: Director-level influence or equivalent cross-functional leadership shaping product direction and launches at scale.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define the foundational customer, institutional, and market insights that shape the Education Product roadmap.
  • Identify the unmet (learning, emotional, mental) needs of students and translate them into crisp product requirements.
  • Build a deep understanding of global education systems, pedagogical trends, and the rapidly evolving competitive landscape to guide product direction.
  • Own the core narrative for Microsoft AI in Education — from category definition to product level positioning.
  • Craft stories that resonate across university/college and lifelong learning audiences, balancing aspiration with evidence.
  • Ensure every product has a clear, differentiated, emotionally resonant value proposition grounded in real learning outcomes.
  • Partner with go-to-market (GTM), Sales, and Campus Field teams to ensure launches are strategically sequenced and aligned to student needs.
  • Define the success metrics for Education launches and ensure the organization is aligned on best practices.
  • Build the assets, messaging frameworks, and enablement materials that empower global teams to tell a consistent, compelling story.
  • Serve as the connective tissue between Product, Engineering, Research, Policy, and Marketing.
  • Influence senior leaders with clarity, insight, and conviction — ensuring Education remains a strategic priority across Microsoft AI.
  • Champion responsible AI principles and ensure our products meet the highest standards of safety, equity, and accessibility.
  • Embody our Culture and Values
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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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