Director Product Marketing Sales Tools Data Microsoft Bellevue

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We are seeking a proven Product Marketing leader to join our Sales Tools & BI team to help lead long-term business strategy and enable the development of workflows, tools, and reporting that enable our Sales, Service & Marketing teams around the world to create meaningful & valuable connections with our customers.
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This role will be an advocate for both our Bing Ads customers and our internal teams. You will partner closely with our engineering organization and other global stakeholders to ensure customer unmet needs are well understand and reflected in our product plans & sales processes. You will be in a unique position to have line-of-sight across all functions of the Search Advertising business and will become a trusted advisor sought out for your expertise to build sales & marketing capabilities across the organization. If you are a marketing leader who excels in working across organizational boundaries with multiple stakeholders to create impact, then this position is for you.

The Product Marketing Team Leader will be responsible for:
• Collaborating across groups at Microsoft (R&D, Central Marketing, Business Planning, R&D, Field, etc.) at senior levels to build alignment and execute complex projects
• Understanding competitive trends and emerging customer needs, then quickly applying these insights to inform decisions and drive product planning strategy through to execution and closing the loop with success measurement.
• Communicating tool & data features roadmap effectively across all levels of the organization, influencing & persuading others to align towards common goals while anticipating how changes will impact field teams
• Acting as a technical thought leader and advocate for product marketing team & end users throughout the feature development cycle
• Leading & motivating a team of high output Product Marketers

Required Capabilities:
• Ability to influence senior leadership & key sales partners towards a shared goal, where multiple inputs and perspectives on solutions are common
• Strong collaboration & coaching skills to lead a team of accountability driven product marketers all focused on varying technology challenges and user scenarios
• Proven expertise in a trusted leadership role within online product planning & development, with a metrics & customer satisfaction driven approach for driving to solutions
• A passion and curiosity for understanding how market trends can tie to internal execution strategies to inform long term product roadmap
• Strong strategic thinking complemented with a bias for action; with ability to deal with ambiguity and lead teams to create solutions to ambiguous or unstructured problems
• Able to break down complex issues into concepts that translate across multiple stakeholder groups (e.g., customers, partners, leadership, geos)

Qualifications:
• Driven, self-starter with 10+ years in high-tech, b2b/CRM marketing, strategy consulting or startup experience with demonstrable track record in driving product strategy and successful go-to-market activities
• Deep subject matter expertise in Sales, Marketing workflows, tools, and technologies landscape.
• Ability to develop differentiated product and service strategies and corresponding execution plans
• 5+ years of experience managing a team across multiple projects and with a focus on producing measurable results.
• BS/BA in Business or Marketing or related field required, MBA or advanced degree is preferred

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