Who: Microsoft
What: Senior Product Marketing Manager
Where: Redmond
What: Business Intelligence (BI) has enormous potential to differentiate Microsoft, the Power BI team is a passionate, agile group with aspirations to disrupt the existing BI market. We are looking for an innovative Product Marketing Manager who can think creatively and lead product marketing for our Power BI Designer product. This is a fun, challenging and highly visible role where your success will have a direct impact on Microsoft success in BI and driving consideration and adoption of our broader Data Platform.
Responsibilities:
Deeply understand customer needs, market dynamics, competitors and product levers to help grow adoption of Power BI. Develop competitive insights to deliver the right solutions and messaging to market. Provide feedback into product planning to guide future product roadmaps.
Partner with engineering on defining and refining the product plans increasing the value our customer and partner receive from their investment.
Lead disclosure strategy in partnership with product planning and communications/AR/PR. Work with our integrated marketing, press relations and analyst relations teams to ensure breadth & depth coverage.
Develop the core BOM including value proposition, positioning and messaging and sales scenarios that resonates with business analysts and BI professional to accelerate trial and conversion to paid offerings.
Field readiness, preparing the sales teams and regional teams with enough advance notice, information, and resources to both launch and sustain marketing plans against specific business goals.
Leading a v-team across engineering, marketing and sales focused on competitive intelligence to inform how we position against competitors and take share.
Requirements:
Demonstrated experience in technology related roles in areas directly relevant to the responsibilities described above. Ability to think strategically about technology and its business implications
Top-tier problem-solving skills with the ability to achieve results despite ambiguity
Ability to collaborate and drive cross-team collaboration with diverse group in a cross functional organization
We are looking for a highly motivated, results-driven marketer and leader, who has strong technical aptitude and business acumen.
This position requires excellent oral and written communications abilities, and strong interpersonal skills including the ability to interact with technical and business leaders
Experience and proven track record in taking new and innovative products and technologies to market is a plus. A master’s degree is preferred but not required.
