Product Marketing Manager, MAI

Overview

Some of the most interesting work in AI starts as research, and the distance between a promising result and a product customers can buy is where product marketing earns its keep, and Foundry Labs is where new model work reaches developers first before graduating into the broader Foundry Models portfolio.

We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, MAI to bring that work to developers, partners, and enterprise customers. You will run launch execution end to end for the MAI multimodal family and for models graduating out of Labs, covering bill of materials, naming, demos, launch content, and field readiness. You will own the Foundry Labs community strategy, growing an engaged base of developers and builders through technical content, open source and preview programs, and day-to-day engagement on Reddit, YouTube, X, Discord, GitHub, and Hugging Face.

That community work feeds a loop: you will capture feedback and usage signals to shape what graduates from Labs, surface standout projects as customer evidence, partner with business planning to commercialize experiments when they are ready and build the sales enablement and customer stories for the field.

This is a hands-on role for a marketer who enjoys developer audiences, moves quickly with an evolving portfolio, and has the technical depth to work directly with researchers and engineers.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we embrace 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 foster a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive, at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Launch Strategy and Execution

• Lead end-to-end launch execution for the MAI multimodal model family, including bill of materials, naming, pricing inputs, demos, launch content, and readiness.
• Lead launch execution for models graduating out of Foundry Labs, including bill of materials, naming, demos, benchmarks, and field readiness, and support launches across the broader Foundry Models portfolio, including MAI models, in partnership with the owning product marketing manager.

Community and Developer Growth

• Own the Foundry Labs community strategy end to end, growing an engaged base of developers, researchers, and builders.
• Improve the feedback loop for research models: partner with product to capture feedback, usage signals, and standout community projects, feed them back to Research and Product to shape what graduates from Labs, and surface showcase projects as customer evidence for enterprise adoption.
• Market to developer audiences through technical content, open source and preview programs, and hands-on activations that put new research models in builders hands.
• Own day-to-day community monitoring and engagement across the platforms where developers and enthusiasts talk about Microsoft models - including Reddit, YouTube, X, Discord, GitHub, and Hugging Face - responding to questions and feedback, amplifying standout projects, tracking sentiment and emerging themes, and escalating recurring issues to Research and Product.

Commercialization and Adoption

• Own incubation to adoption for research experiments, partnering with business planning to commercialize them when they are ready to graduate into the Foundry Models portfolio.
• Partner with Microsoft first-party product teams to power scaled experiences with multimodal models.
• Build sales enablement, customer stories, and global black belt and field content for the Microsoft Research and Foundry Labs portfolio.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Masters Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in product marketing
• OR Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 2+ years experience in product marketing
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Masters Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in product marketing

• OR Bachelors Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience

• Experience leading product launches end to end, including bill of materials, naming, demos, launch content, and field readiness.

• Experience marketing to developer audiences, including community building, technical content, and open source or preview programs.

• Experience marketing AI models, developer platforms, cloud, or data products, with the technical depth to work directly with researchers and engineers.

• Familiarity with emerging model modalities and the scenarios they unlock.

• Experience taking an early stage or incubation offering through to a commercialized product in partnership with product and business planning.

• Experience building sales enablement and customer evidence that field and specialist teams use.

Product Marketing IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $86,100 - $169,800 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 $113,300 - $187,400 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.

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