Responsibilities

• This leader will own the marketing strategy for modernization and agentic operations, drive success and growth across both portfolios, and build and develop a large product marketing team — including managers — while working closely with technical and business leaders across Azure, from Data and AI to Core Infrastructure.
• Defining the marketing strategy and product narrative for Azure modernization and agentic operations — spanning GitHub Copilot modernization, Azure Migrate, and Azure Copilot — and connecting the two into a single, coherent customer story
• Leading and developing a large product marketing team spanning both portfolios — hiring, coaching and managing managers, shaping team structure and priorities, allocating resources, and setting the operating rhythm that keeps a highly matrixed organization aligned
• Curating high impact messaging and product themes and aligned to Microsoft’s vision — AI as both catalyst and accelerant for modernization, agentic modernization as the means of relieving decades of technical debt across existing apps and data, every app made AI ready, and the shift of operations to support a new class of agentic applications — and surfacing them consistently through a proactive content program tied to product innovation, partner expansion, major events and launches, solution milestones, and always-on initiatives for core audiences
• Collaborating across Microsoft to define how core AI, Data, Developer, Infrastructure, and Operations services align to support the modernization and agentic operations architecture, strategy, and value proposition
• Driving market leadership across both portfolios, working with growth leaders to guide strategies for customer acquisition, modernization and migration velocity, adoption and customer advocacy
• Bringing the value of agentic modernization and agentic operations to life for customers through user stories, demos, and scenarios across Java, .NET, and mainframe estates that quantify the reduction in time, cost and effort
• Partnering across business units and our global partner organization to achieve annual revenue and engagement growth priorities, business targets, monetization strategies, and metrics
• Delivering sales enablement and field support — partnering with sales, partner, and engineering organizations on collateral for product announcements, portfolio changes and annual solution programs; building content that resonates with customer value and drives high field utilization; creating a feedback loop with Sales to ensure buy-in and continuous improvement; and joining pre-sales meetings with customers
• Supporting major launch moments, executive disclosures, corporate events, and key industry milestones to communicate this product strategy clearly, consistently and with maximum impact

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in product marketing
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in product marketing
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• Experience with messaging and content development
• Experience driving new and enhanced products to market, with tangible impact
• Experience setting portfolio-level marketing strategy across multiple products and translating it into executable plans, priorities, and measurable business outcomes

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 12+ years experience in product marketing
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 15+ years experience in product marketing
• OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years people management experience.
• Experience with messaging and content development
• Experience driving new and enhanced products to market, with tangible impact
• Experience setting portfolio-level marketing strategy across multiple products and translating it into executable plans, priorities, and measurable business outcomes
• Project Management experience
• Experience with sales strategy/enablement
• Experience influencing executives and driving decisions across a highly matrixed organization