Senior Partner Marketing Manager

USA (Unknown)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and optimize the global MSP partner marketing, community and events program, translating Microsoft priorities into partner-ready narratives and scalable engagement motions, and measure impact on partner activation and revenue.

  • Lead a scalable MSP engagement model across events, webinars, and digital communities.
  • Partner with regional teams to align priorities and deliver integrated activation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute the global MSP partner marketing, community, and event strategy, defining priority audiences, messaging pillars, engagement moments, operating rhythm, and measurable outcomes.
  • Build and lead a scalable MSP engagement model across events, webinars, roundtables, digital communities, newsletters, and partner listening forums.
  • Translate Microsoft priorities into compelling partner-ready narratives, event content, community programming, activation guidance, and reusable toolkits.
  • Partner across regional GTM teams, PDMs, partner sales, SMB/CSP stakeholders, and content, events, communications, skilling, and operations teams to align priority MSP cohorts and deliver integrated activation.
  • Measure community and event impact against SME&C business outcomes, using partner insights and performance data to strengthen partner activation, customer acquisition, pipeline and revenue influence, and AI, security, cloud, and marketplace adoption.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 5+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Additional or preferred qualifications: Master's Degree in Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years sales, marketing, technology-based, or business development experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 6+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in partner marketing, channel marketing, community engagement, event marketing, digital marketing, communications, product marketing, or a related marketing program role.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop marketing strategies and execute cross-functional programs with clear timelines, deliverables, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience designing and delivering partner or customer events, community programs, webinars, roundtables, or integrated engagement motions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex business priorities into clear partner-ready messaging, content, and event narratives.
  • Experience working with partner, sales, field, community, or ecosystem stakeholders to gather input, align priorities, and drive execution in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Analytical and operational discipline to track engagement, synthesize feedback, manage integrated calendars and deliverables, and improve programs based on data and partner insights.
  • Experience with MSP, CSP, SMB, marketplace, managed services, security, Copilot, AI, or Microsoft partner ecosystem motions is preferred.

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, or related field AND 4+ years sales, marketing, technology-based, or business development experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field AND 6+ years sales, marketing, or business development experience
  • Experience in partner marketing, channel marketing, community engagement, event marketing, digital marketing, communications, product marketing, or a related marketing program role.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop marketing strategies and execute cross-functional programs with clear timelines, deliverables, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience designing and delivering partner or customer events, community programs, webinars, roundtables, or integrated engagement motions.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex business priorities into clear partner-ready messaging, content, and event narratives.
  • Experience working with partner, sales, field, community, or ecosystem stakeholders to gather input, align priorities, and drive execution in a highly matrixed environment.
  • Analytical and operational discipline to track engagement, synthesize feedback, manage integrated calendars and deliverables, and improve programs based on data and partner insights.
  • Experience with MSP, CSP, SMB, marketplace, managed services, security, Copilot, AI, or Microsoft partner ecosystem motions is preferred.
  • Ability to build scalable global engagement models that balance global consistency, regional relevance, and partner-segment specificity.
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, with comfort operating across senior leaders, regional and field teams, and partner-facing groups; able to create structure and durable mechanisms in an evolving or ambiguous motion.

Benefits

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Microsoft

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)

Salaries

Posted range

$106K/yr – $223K/yr

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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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