Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Positioning - Define positioning, messaging, and value propositions for the all-up sovereign cloud portfolio and priority customer scenarios. - Develop differentiated narratives based on customer needs, sovereignty requirements, market trends, regulation, and competitive dynamics. - Partner with engineering, product management, sales, and field teams to influence product strategy, packaging, and roadmap decisions. - Create executive-ready storytelling that connects technical capabilities to customer and business outcomes.
• Launch Leadership - Lead major product launches and announcement moments from strategy through execution. - Develop launch plans, messaging architectures, customer stories, field assets, executive communications, and success measures. - Coordinate engineering, communications, analyst relations, partner marketing, field marketing, and sales teams to deliver integrated launch execution. - Drive launch readiness and maintain message consistency across customer-facing channels.
• GTM and Demand Generation - Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns across digital, field, partner, paid, owned, and earned channels. - Partner with Integrated Marketing, Global Marketing Engines & Experiences, regional/local GTM teams to drive awareness, engagement, demand, and adoption in priority markets. - Use audience insights, customer signals, and performance data to improve campaign effectiveness. - Define success measures and drive continuous improvement across the customer journey.
• Thought Leadership and Market Influence - Shape external thought leadership for sovereign cloud, sovereign AI, data sovereignty, security, resilience, and regulatory control. - Support executive keynotes, industry events, analyst engagements, media opportunities, and customer forums. - Represent Microsoft with customers, partners, analysts, and industry influencers. - Develop strategic content, including whitepapers, blogs, executive briefs, presentations, and customer evidence.
• Cross-Functional Leadership - Drive alignment across engineering, sales, partner, communications, analyst relations, public relations, field, and marketing teams. - Lead through influence across diverse stakeholders without direct authority. - Operate effectively in ambiguity and bring clarity to complex business and technical decisions. - Mentor others and raise product marketing quality across the broader organization.

Requirements

• - Master's Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business
• - OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business
• - OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

• - Experience with sovereign cloud, digital sovereignty, government cloud, regulated industries, or compliance-focused solutions.
• - Understanding of cloud architecture, distributed infrastructure, data residency, security, governance, and business continuity scenarios.
• - Experience with Azure, cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, data platforms, security, or enterprise technology solutions.
• - Experience with analyst relations, public relations, executive communications, and thought leadership programs.
• - Experience leading strategic technology partner and ecosystem marketing initiatives.
• - Experience leading enterprise product launches and integrated marketing campaigns.
• - Experience partnering with engineering and product teams to bring complex technical products and solutions to market.
• - Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment.