Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Developer

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$106K/yr – $223K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 days ago

Job Summary

Own the go‑to‑market strategy for GitHub and Microsoft developer products, aligning product direction, messaging, and field execution across teams.

  • Define compelling value propositions and determine pricing, packaging, and business model considerations.
  • Lead go‑to‑market planning for major launches and enable sellers and partners with stories, demos, and tools.
  • Translate customer and market insights into positioning, messaging, and channel activation across communities, product‑led growth, and events.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute end-to-end go-to-market strategies for GitHub and Microsoft developer products, partnering with product, engineering, integrated marketing, business planning, and field teams.
  • Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to shape product direction, influence feature prioritization, and make sure the roadmap, business model, and narrative move together.
  • Define and communicate compelling value propositions that show how GitHub and Microsoft help developers and organizations build faster and more securely as AI reshapes how software gets made.
  • Turn customer insights, competitive intelligence, field feedback, and product telemetry into positioning, messaging, and go-to-market decisions.
  • Evaluate pricing, packaging, and business model performance against the competitive landscape, and recommend changes that keep our offers ahead of the market.
  • Prioritize and activate the right mix of channels for each narrative (community, product-led growth, field, partners, and events) to drive awareness, adoption, and growth.
  • Lead go-to-market planning for key launches and moments across GitHub and Microsoft, and equip sellers and partners with the story, demos, and tools to win with customers.

Requirements

  • Master's Degree 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.
  • Additional or preferred qualifications: Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business OR Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business OR equivalent experience.
  • Hands-on fluency with GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio Code, and other AI coding agents in your daily workflow; deep familiarity with the developer tools ecosystem, including IDEs and extensions, CI/CD, version control, and security.
  • A working understanding of how AI models are evaluated, priced, and served, including benchmarks, tokens, and tradeoffs among quality, latency, and cost.
  • Proven experience owning positioning and messaging for a developer product used across many personas, from individual developers to enterprise engineering leaders.
  • Exceptional writing and technical storytelling skills across keynotes, blogs, demos, pitch decks, and battlecards.
  • Previous experience as a software engineer, developer advocate, or sales engineer.
  • Experience with pricing, packaging, or usage-based business models for software or cloud products.
  • Experience bringing a product from preview to general availability.
  • Experience with analyst relations, including Gartner and Forrester evaluations.

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

Taken straight from the job posting.

Developer Marketing median pay in the United States

$112K/yr

Most pay falls between $75K and $185K. Based on 77 salaries.

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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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Sr. Product Marketing Manager - Developer

Microsoft · San Francisco, CA · Hybrid