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Research Vice President, Microsoft Licensing

Directions on Microsoft
Kirkland, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/28/2025

Please read the following job description thoroughly to ensure you are the right fit for this role before applying.

Directions on Microsoft is seeking a Microsoft licensing expert to join our rapidly growing Microsoft licensing training and reference guide business.

Our Organization

Directions on Microsoft is unlike any other analyst firm in the world. We're a small, focused group of analysts who are the leading independent authorities on Microsoft products and services. We have been for more than 25 years.

Our Fortune 1000 clients use our updates, research, roadmaps, licensing guides, and analyst briefings to cut through the fog of information that surrounds Microsoft and get to the critical facts they need to plan and drive full value from their Microsoft investments. No other analyst firm can match the depth and breadth of insight and intelligence we deliver.

Your Responsibilities

  • Research, understand, and communicate important shifts in Microsoft licensing, including product packaging, usage rights and rules, license compliance tracking and enforcement, and Microsoft's volume licensing programs.
  • Analyze how changes may impact Microsoft's enterprise customers and partners, including ways that customers and partners can mitigate risks and exploit opportunities.
  • Contribute approximately 5,000 words per month to our research and analysis services and deliver briefings to our customers, including several multi-day Licensing Boot Camps annually.
  • Stay up to date on Microsoft licensing programs and rules through reading, conversing with our customers, attending conferences, and maintaining an ongoing dialogue with our many contacts at Microsoft.
  • Use your industry experience and acumen to separate substance from marketing hype, and make the complex seem simple without sacrificing accuracy.

Candidates for this role must be :

  • Curious
  • Meticulous
  • Self-directed
  • Able to communicate clearly and concisely
  • Motivated to continuously improve
  • Candidates should also :

  • Have significant domain expertise with Microsoft licensing
  • Be comfortable interacting with IT executives, press, and Microsoft
  • Enjoy deep research and precise writing (You don't have to be a professional. If you're the right candidate, we'll bring you up to speed.)
  • Benefits

    Directions on Microsoft offers a superb package that includes generous salary, pension, 401(k), vacation, and health benefits. We also offer a relaxed and exceptionally collegial work environment, a flexible work schedule, and zero tolerance for bureaucracy. Travel is moderate and scheduled well in advance. For the right person, this is a once-in-a-lifetime job that provides interesting and rewarding work in an ideal environment.

    To Apply

    To apply for this position, email your résumé to careers@DirectionsOnMicrosoft.com

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