What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Business and Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Security position at Microsoft Power Platform Community?
Overview
Security is critical for our increasingly digital world. Our mission is to empower every person on the planet and make the world a safer place for all. At Microsoft Security, our innovation goal is to give defenders the advantage they need to stay ahead of threats and to help organizations accelerate the safe adoption of AI while staying compliant. As the Director, Business and Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Security, you will play a vital and strategic role in creating and implementing our business and marketing strategy, goals, priorities, and metrics. This role reports to the GM, Strategy and Portfolio Marketing for Microsoft’s Security business. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record and skills in business strategy and particularly marketing strategy – including market development, penetration, scaling, and strategies to drive growth. This opportunity will allow you to serve as a trusted advisor and close partner to product marketing, finance, product management and engineering, business operations, and go-to-market (GTM) planning. This role includes a variety of responsibilities, including delivering strategies and plans, shaping our long range planning (LRP), managing strategy rhythms of business, analyzing and reporting on business performance and metrics, and creating business narratives and communications. The ideal candidate will be a business-oriented, market thinker who will bring a strategic lens and frameworks to enable strategic decision making, planning, prioritization, and measuring. This individual will bring a sense of order and urgency, with a bias for thoughtful action, and have the finesse required to align stakeholders and bring others along.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
Required/Minimum Qualifications
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 February 17, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Security is critical for our increasingly digital world. Our mission is to empower every person on the planet and make the world a safer place for all. At Microsoft Security, our innovation goal is to give defenders the advantage they need to stay ahead of threats and to help organizations accelerate the safe adoption of AI while staying compliant. As the Director, Business and Marketing Strategy, Microsoft Security, you will play a vital and strategic role in creating and implementing our business and marketing strategy, goals, priorities, and metrics. This role reports to the GM, Strategy and Portfolio Marketing for Microsoft’s Security business. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record and skills in business strategy and particularly marketing strategy – including market development, penetration, scaling, and strategies to drive growth. This opportunity will allow you to serve as a trusted advisor and close partner to product marketing, finance, product management and engineering, business operations, and go-to-market (GTM) planning. This role includes a variety of responsibilities, including delivering strategies and plans, shaping our long range planning (LRP), managing strategy rhythms of business, analyzing and reporting on business performance and metrics, and creating business narratives and communications. The ideal candidate will be a business-oriented, market thinker who will bring a strategic lens and frameworks to enable strategic decision making, planning, prioritization, and measuring. This individual will bring a sense of order and urgency, with a bias for thoughtful action, and have the finesse required to align stakeholders and bring others along.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver the multi-year business plan and strategic growth framework, aligned to our long range financial plan (LRP).
- Lead and deliver annual business and marketing strategy and plans, including key performance indicators (KPIs) for each business priority (build trust and drive brand love, product innovation, and drive growth).
- Lead and facilitate strategy rhythms of business partnering closely with finance on total addressable market (TAM) refreshes and LRP updates, partnering closely with product management/engineering and product marketing on product roadmap updates and strategic initiative reviews/forums.
- Assist and deliver business narratives and communications, partnering closely with Chiefs of Staff and business operations on monthly executive memos, monthly and quarterly business and marketing reviews, and on board memos.
- Monitor and report out on business performance metrics, delivering on business scorecards and performance summaries against business and marketing plans.
- You will also function as an advisor to senior leadership to prioritize and inform strategic business decisions, and to guide and align execution of strategic initiatives to business strategy.
- Embody our Culture and Values
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6 years marketing, strategy, strategy management, consumer technical marketing, business planning, consulting, and/or partner organization experience
- OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 4 marketing, strategy, strategy management, consumer technical marketing, business planning, consulting, and/or partner organization experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4 years experience in Strategy, Management Consulting, and/or Finance.
- 4 years of experience working for an enterprise b2b tech company (10,000 employees) OR a major consulting firm.
- Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 12 years marketing, strategy, strategy management, consumer technical marketing, business planning, consulting, and/or partner organization experience
- OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8 years marketing, strategy, strategy management, consumer technical marketing, business planning, consulting, and/or partner organization experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Security industry experience
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 February 17, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Salary : $129,200 - $268,900
