Senior Product Marketing Manager - Azure

Responsibilities

• Shape product strategy: Partner with product management and engineering to understand technical capabilities, architectures, deployment models, and customer scenarios. Apply market and customer insights to influence product roadmaps, priorities, and investment decisions.
• Drive market and competitive intelligence: Analyze customer needs, competing technologies, emerging trends, and market dynamics to identify opportunities, anticipate industry shifts, and inform product differentiation and business strategy.
• Develop differentiated positioning: Create compelling value propositions, messaging, and technical narratives that translate complex Azure technologies into clear customer benefits for technical and business audiences.
• Lead go-to-market strategy and execution: Define audience and segment priorities, lead product launches, and develop integrated marketing strategies, content, and sales and partner enablement to drive awareness, adoption, and growth.
• Drive long-term business health: Evaluate product performance, customer adoption, competitive position, and commercial opportunities. Use data, customer feedback, and experimentation to identify growth opportunities, address adoption barriers, and improve business outcomes.
• Build market credibility: Develop customer evidence, engage industry analysts and influencers, and represent Microsoft at industry events to strengthen product awareness, differentiation, and market leadership.
• Lead through influence: Work across engineering, sales, marketing, and partner teams to align priorities, drive execution, and communicate strategic recommendations, results, and business risks to senior stakeholders.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Requirements

• Master's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in product marketing or other enterprise technology related roles
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in product marketing or other enterprise technology related roles
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in product marketing or other enterprise technology related roles
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in product marketing or other enterprise technology related roles
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in marketing, positioning and messaging, customer and market insight, competitive differentiation, GTM planning, launches, enablement and measurement.
• Experience partnering across product, engineering, sales, marketing, partner, customer success, or business teams to deliver shared outcomes.
• Experience translating strategy into executable go-to-market plans, readiness, enablement, campaigns, field or partner motions, and measurable business outcomes.
• Experience marketing cloud platforms, developer tools, data and AI services, infrastructure, security, business applications, or enterprise software.
• Experience working with technical audiences and collaborating directly with product managers, engineers, architects, researchers, or developers.
• Experience with the product lifecycle, pricing and packaging, monetization, customer adoption, or commercial models for technology products.
• Experience with global, multi-audience, partner-led, or enterprise go-to-market programs