In a complex, interconnected world, it takes everybody working together to keep people and organizations secure. As part of our commitment, Microsoft is leading the industry with an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered, end-to-end security solution. But we go further, by offering Managed Security Services to deliver peace of mind and support resource-strapped security teams. Our world-class experts augment defenders across a range of scenarios: bolstering cyber prevention, blocking in-flight attacks, and helping organizations rapidly respond and recover from an incident.

Our Managed Security Services portfolio includes Microsoft Defender Experts for Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Defender Experts for Threat Hunting and Microsoft Incident Response, and are relied on by many top organizations to find and stop emergent and sophisticated threats from nation-states and cybercriminals. In a complex and competitive market, the Senior Product Marketing Manager, Managed Security Services is with the ability to quickly grasp technical details, be adaptive, and move quickly in a dynamic environment. This individual will be given a significant scope and the responsibility to influence a critical and fast-growing business.

We are looking for a customer-obsessed individual with a results-oriented track record as a persuasive storyteller and content creator, a savvy business strategist, a resourceful information seeker, and an excellent collaborator with poise under pressure. In addition, we prioritize our people and foster a culture of inclusivity and collaboration both across our team and organization and look for individuals who exemplify those values.

This Senior Product Marketing Manager, Managed Security Services will look end to end from product and business strategy to marketing campaigns to readiness to partner to field to competitors. There are many facets to this role, so prioritization skills will be important. This is a great role to work with amazing people, gain broad visibility, influence and accelerate the business, and grow a successful career.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Building a deep technical understanding of the services and translate that into effective marketing messaging and materials
• Partnering closely with and influencing engineering to adopt a customer obsessed mindset and keep a pulse on evolving audience and market trends
• Identifying strategic gaps and opportunities and crafting strategic analyses to drive the business with a demonstrated ability to use data to build and present business cases to marketing, sales and engineering stakeholders
• Driving awareness by creating marketing assets like demo videos, blogs, emails, content, webinars, and more.
• Using data such as marketing telemetry, customer research, market and compete analysis to influence your go-to-market plans
• Supporting the business planning team on business modeling, pricing, packaging, and licensing initiatives
• Collaborating with the Go-To-Market team to drive sales enablement, partner readiness and scale marketing initiatives for our services
• Embody our culture and values
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in Product Marketing with a focus on commercial software
• OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in Product Marketing with a focus on commercial software
• OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience partnering closely with product teams on product strategy, narrative creation, and launches
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in Product Marketing with a focus on commercial software
• OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in Product Marketing with a focus on commercial software
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in Cybersecurity and an understanding of the security audience
• Thrive in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment
• Creative problem solver. Positive, motivational, and inspiring. Strategic thinker who is curious, resilient and goal oriented with a bias for action
• Ability to translate technical concepts into a compelling story for customers that clearly articulates Microsoft’s strategy, benefits and differentiation
• Effective communication skills, high degree of accountability, and willingness to take measured risks
• Ability to deliver world class marketing content, including value proposition, evidence, blogs, whitepapers & presentations for identified scenarios, products/features and segments/audiences
• Ability to develop working relationships with customers, senior executives, engineering teams, and other product and marketing groups.
  

Product Marketing IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $103,800 - $200,300 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133,700 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 2, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.