Field Product Marketing Manager

Overview

Lead a sales enablement programs team who turn strategy into measurable business impact. Americas Sales Enablement & Operations (SE&O) connects customer engagement, go-to-market programs and operations. As a leader of an AI Business Solutions program team, you will shape a portfolio of sales motions that execute on product strategy to create pipeline, accelerate opportunities, and grow usage and consumption across the Americas.

You will translate product team business priorities into focused programs, empower your team to execute, and build repeatable approaches that scale through the field and partners. You will also work closely with the sales segment team to set them up for success enabling the right sales programs at the right time for sellers. This role calls for a strategic, creative, and tenacious leader who brings energy to complex challenges, develops talent, and aligns teams around shared outcomes.

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

Lead and develop people

• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling and coaching.

• Create an inclusive environment where program owners bring diverse perspectives, challenge assumptions, and learn from results.

• Set clear goals and decision rights, provide actionable feedback, and build individual development plans.

• Coach program owners to take a data driven approach to innovation thinking, stakeholder influence, and end-to-end ownership; recognize impact and address performance needs.

• Align team capacity to portfolio priorities, make explicit trade-offs, and remove barriers.

• Empower owners to lead their programs while maintaining shared accountability for quality, execution, and outcomes.

Own portfolio strategy and cross-functional alignment

• Own the Americas AI Business Solutions program execution and roadmap for one or more phases: pipeline creation, acceleration, and usage and consumption.

• Translate customer, market, and field insights into prioritized investments, strategic sales programs, and opportunities to expand the business.

• Align marketing, sales, consulting, customer success, product and segment teams, operating units, and partners around shared plans and outcomes.

• Resolve dependencies, clarify ownership and service expectations, and represent field needs in corporate planning.

Build scalable operations and measurable impact

• Establish a consistent rhythm of business, intake process, and operating standards across programs. Simplify tools and workflows, surface operating-unit pain points, and turn feedback into improvements that increase execution quality and reduce friction.

• Define portfolio KPIs and program success measures, using analytics and field insights to assess impact across pipeline, progression, and usage. Lead performance reviews, communicate results and risks, and direct course corrections based on evidence.

• Steward program investments and external vendor relationships with clear scope, deliverables, and performance expectations. Evaluate effectiveness and resource trade-offs, scaling approaches that work and adjusting those that do not.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience AND Bachelors Degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience managing and expanding a product/solution portfolio and driving demand generation and pipeline acceleration within a complex (e.g., multinational or matrixed) organization.
• 5+ years people management experience.

Field Product Marketing M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 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 $165,600 - $272,300 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.