Senior Director Product Marketing, Azure Cloud and AI Platform at Microsoft | Mountain View, CA | $156K/yr – $304K/yr

Senior Director Product Marketing, Azure Cloud and AI Platform

Mountain View, CA (Hybrid)

$156K/yr – $304K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Job Summary

Drive strategic category definition and cross-organization alignment to establish Azure as the platform for agentic applications, turning customer outcomes into differentiated messaging, assets, and executive narrative while scaling Customer Zero adoption and frontier programs.

Own market-shaping category strategy, executive narratives, and customer-ready assets anchored in measurable differentiation.
Orchestrate cross-functional alignment and field guidance to land one unified story across launches, campaigns, events, and customer conversations.
Develop Customer Zero stories and frontier adoption programs with measurable velocity, reliability, cost efficiency, and security posture.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Market Shift, Category Strategy & Executive Narrative: Define and drive category creation for enterprise agent platforms, shaping language, proof points, and POV for the next decade of applications.
Market Shift, Category Strategy & Executive Narrative: Create durable executive-ready programs, customer facing assets, leadership communications, analyst engagements, and major events keynotes anchored in outcomes and differentiation.
Market Shift, Category Strategy & Executive Narrative: Shape strategic positioning that elevates Azure as the platform for agentic applications across build, run, secure, govern, and optimize.
Enterprise Evaluation Model & Technical Marketing Framework: Define the technical model enterprises use to evaluate agentic platforms, including reference architectures, workload patterns, and decision criteria for AI, data, infrastructure, security, and operations.
Enterprise Evaluation Model & Technical Marketing Framework: Translate the model into scalable marketing assets—messaging frameworks, competitive comparisons, executive briefs, field guidance, and partner narratives.
Enterprise Evaluation Model & Technical Marketing Framework: Drive cross-organization alignment to land one story across launches, campaigns, events, customer conversations, and solution plays.
Customer Zero Story & Frontier Adoption Program: Develop and scale a complete Customer Zero narrative demonstrating how Microsoft adopts and benefits from its platform and AI technologies in build, operations, and DevOps modernization.
Customer Zero Story & Frontier Adoption Program: Partner across Engineering, Operations, Security, and Product to capture measurable proof points and translate them into customer-ready stories, demos, and guidance.
Customer Zero Story & Frontier Adoption Program: Build a customer and partner-facing program establishing Microsoft as a Frontier organization and providing a blueprint for others to achieve similar impact.
People Leadership & Team Development: Build and lead a high-performing PMM team with a bar for strategic thinking, technical fluency, and executive communication.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in product marketing owning positioning, messaging/go-to-market for technical products and platforms
OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in product marketing owning positioning, messaging/go-to-market for technical products and platforms
OR equivalent experience.
6+ years people management experience.
Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 12+ years experience in product marketing owning positioning, messaging/go-to-market for technical products and platforms
OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 15+ years experience in product marketing owning positioning, messaging/go-to-market for technical products and platforms
OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

Experience influencing and driving outcomes across large, highly matrixed organizations at executive levels
Experience creating executive narratives and technical frameworks connecting developer workflows to enterprise outcomes
Experience marketing platforms, ecosystems, or horizontal technologies where value spans multiple product areas
Experience with cloud platforms and modern application architectures; experience across AI, data, infrastructure, security, and operations
Experience with developer tools and technical storytelling for builders (e.g., workflows, reference architectures, hands-on enablement)
Experience building demo platforms or technical showcases used in keynotes, major events, and digital experiences
8+ years people management experience

Benefits

Microsoft

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